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Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet Zi'en Cui

Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet By Zi'en Cui

Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet by Zi'en Cui


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Cui ZienChinas most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activistpresents ten queer coming-of-age stories of young boys and men as they explore their sexuality and desires in contemporary China.

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Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories by Zi'en Cui

Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet is the first English-language collection of short stories by Cui Zien, Chinas most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activist. Drawing on his own experiences growing up in socialist and postsocialist China, Cui presents ten queer coming-of-age stories of young boys and men as they explore their sexuality and desires. From a surreal fairytale depicting a ragtag crew of neighborhood boys in the throes of sexual awakening to a chronicle of the gender-bending and homoerotic entanglements of university students to romantic love triangle erotica to a story that examines teacher-student love and the norms of sex and age, Cui centers queer sexuality as a core part of human experience. Richly imaginative and vividly written, Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet portrays the emergence of queer cultures in postsocialist China while foregrounding the commitments to ones erotic and passionate attractions even as they lead to cultural transgressions. This volume includes a preface by and an interview with the author.

Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet Reviews

Artist, activist, pioneer, and provocateur, Cui Zien is known for shaking up the world of Chinese queer cinema and standing at the forefront of the queer rights movement in China. Now, for the first time, a selection of his avant-garde literary works is available in English. This collection reveals Cui Ziens strange literary universe, brimming with the uncanny, the philosophical, and the beautiful. -- Michael Berry, author of * Enter the Clowns: The Queer Cinema of Cui Zien *
In Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet Cui Zien invites readers into an enchanted world of childhood innocence, family legends, and young love. Through vivid language and skilled storytelling, Cui creates a queer utopia where gender and sexual fluidity are celebrated in ways that challenge the patriarchal, heterosexual, and homosexual norms of our times. This collection showcases Cui as one of the most talented and original queer writers in the world today. -- Hongwei Bao, author of * Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance *
"The volumes abundant supplementary material includes meticulous footnotes, a lengthy interview with the author, and an appendix that illustrates the diversity of his artistic output. Throughout, Cuis impulses to provoke the forces that repress sexuality and uphold literary conventions are grounded in joie de vivre. Reminiscent of the writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this is an indelible portrait of an artist." * Publishers Weekly *

About Zi'en Cui

Cui Zien is a film director, writer, and activist. He is Associate Professor at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy.

Petrus Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University.

Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

Series Editors Introduction / Carlos Rojas vii
Editors Introduction / Petrus Liu and Lisa Rofel xi
Preface / Translated by Petrus Liu xxiii
Uncles Elegant Life / Translated by Lisa Rofel 1
Intrigue Like Fireworks / Translated by Fran Martin 10
Some Admire Wisdom, Others Do Not / Translated by Derek Hird 20
Orphans of the Japanese Empire / Translated by Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen 45
The Silent Advent of the Age of Sexual Persuasion / Translated by Petrus Liu 71
Men Men Men Women Women Women / Translated by Yizhou Guo 82
Men Are Containers / Translated by Casey James Miller 117
Fire and Wolf Share a Fondness for Male Beauty / Translated by Yizhou Guo 129
Teacher Eats Biscuits Thin as Parchment / Translated by William F. Schroeder 141
Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet / Translated by Wenqing Kang and Cathryn H. Clayton 153
Interview with Cui Zien / Petrus Liu and Lisa Rofel 257
Appendix: Works byCui Zien 273
Bibliography 279
Contributors 283
Place of First Publication 285

Additional information

GOR013847531
9781478030065
1478030062
Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories by Zi'en Cui
Used - Like New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2024-02-06
312
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