This article examines the changing contours of Chinese sexuality studies by locating recent
research in historical context. Our aim is to use the literature we review to construct a picture …

China's one-child policy is one of the largest and most controversial social engineering
projects in human history. With the extreme restrictions it imposed on reproduction, the …

Contemporary Chinese feminism has drawn much attention in academe and popular media,
yet its ontological roots and the politics of naming has largely escaped scrutiny. This paper …

This chapter began as a post on my Critical Polyamorist Blog, the platform on which I first
began exploring autoethnographically my experiences in consensual nonmonogamy …

Over the last four decades, as China has transitioned from a socialist centralized economy to
a productivity-and-efficiency-oriented market economy, so too have the country's public and …

In recent years, single, educated women who are not yet married by their late 20s in China's
major cities have been increasingly castigated as “leftover” women. After more than 3 …

The success or failure of China's development will impact not only its own citizens but also
those of the world. China is widely recognized as a global actor on the world stage and no …

Energy poverty is widely recognized as a problem that affects millions of households
globally. Particularly in the 'Global North'context, research into this phenomenon has tended …

In this paper, we examine whether gender inequality affects a household's decision to adopt
green consumption behaviour in China. Building upon the literature that claims women tend …

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad
social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and …