Queer Youthscapes in Asia: Embodied Modernities and Trans-Embodiments

Abstract

The lives of young people in Asia have been transformed in recent decades as a result of rapid development, industrialisation and globalisation. From new life-making subjects to civic netizens, the embodiment practices of young people are central to these narratives of Asian modernities. Exemplary here is the role that sexuality has played in constituting new desires and identities. From the correctness of suzhi (human quality) in China to gay consumers of creative economies in Thailand and Singapore, the practices of sexual embodiment have become new agents of complicity and change. In this chapter, I critically introduce and canvass the field of queer Asian studies to showcase a range of k..