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Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920-1945

Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920-1945

Tran, Richard Quang-Anh

Hardcover

General Gender StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1503615383
ISBN13: 9781503615380
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 225
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 1900s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of gender across much of Asia, narrowing and delegitimizing what had been a wide range of acceptable gender practices. But in Vietnam, Western influence on gender remained uneven at best. Through archival research and innovative readings of literary sources, Richard Quang-Anh Tran argues that Vietnamese culture embraced a much less rigid view of the human body, and that a far more capacious vision of gendered personhood existed in this period than has been previously assumed. Popular love stories involved cross-dressing monks and traditional women who don male garb to fight in battle. And accounts of proto-lesbian friendships and a futuristic human civilization populated by a higher form of hermaphroditic species all found avid readers. Together, this material reveals that in Vietnam's interwar period, tradition coexisted with and jostled against the modern. While current perceptions of Vietnamese history rest on the exclusion of the queer--subjects who depart from heteronormative ways of being--this book brings them to the center, and opens up new directions for both the historical study of gender and Vietnam's modernity.

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