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A review by gannent
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas by Petrus Liu
challenging
slow-paced
I don’t feel comfortable giving this book a star rating because I feel like I barely understood it. It’s very very dense and is probably something only for people who either have a PhD in queer theory or Marxism or have read a PhD’s worth of work in queer theory and Marxism.
One thing that was interesting is that this book was published in 2015 and things have changed dramatically in the almost 10 years since it was written. 2014-2015 was still a time of possibility for queer art in China and that’s reflected in this book. Those possibilities have been severely shut down since and it brings another level of interest to the book to compare those changes.
One thing that was interesting is that this book was published in 2015 and things have changed dramatically in the almost 10 years since it was written. 2014-2015 was still a time of possibility for queer art in China and that’s reflected in this book. Those possibilities have been severely shut down since and it brings another level of interest to the book to compare those changes.