That global feeling: Sexual subjectivities and imagined geographies in chinese-language lesbian cyberspaces

Abstract

This chapter arises from an Internet-based survey of users of Chineselanguage lesbian websites conducted between 2003 and 2004.1 Lesbianthemed websites in Chinese-character formats have blossomed since the mid-1990s, and present varying degrees of complexity, incorporating some or all of chat rooms; guest books; news updates; bulletin board systems; celebrity gossip columns; news on local political and community events; personal ads; advice columns; blogs; Internet fiction; poetry and artwork archives; lesbian-themed films, comics, music, and TV programs available for download; and so on. The first such sites appeared in Taiwan (and to a lesser extent, Hong Kong) beginning around 1995, and a..