''Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China'' is a 2012 book written by Lucetta Kam Yip-lo (
Dr. KAM Yip Lo, Lucetta , 金曄路博士
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The book discusses '' lalas'' (), including female bisexuals, lesbians, and trans women, in Shanghai. From 2005 to 2011, as part of her research, Lucetta Kam interviewed 25 ''lalas''. Most of the women were in their 20s and originated from urban areas.[Chiu, Joanna.]
Book review: Shanghai Lalas, by Lucetta Kam Yip-lo
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Shanghai-born Lucetta Kam is an assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a public Liberal arts education, liberal arts university with a Christian ethics, Christian education heritage in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The university was established as Hong Kong Baptist ...
(HKBU), and she is involved in LGBT organizations in Hong Kong, where she was raised. Lucetta Kam herself is a lesbian, and Joanna Chiu of the ''South China Morning Post
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'' wrote that Lucetta Kam "needed to work to maintain her distance from her subjects".[
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Reception
Joanna Chiu wrote that the book was "a balanced, richly insightful and succinctly argued study" that "reveals as many truths about the lives of urban lalas as about the shifting forms of social control - and strategies of social transformation - in Chinese society today."[
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See also
* LGBT culture in Shanghai
References
Further reading
* Lau, Sin Wen. "Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China" (Book Review). ''The China Journal
''The China Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on China. It covers anthropology, sociology, and political science. Two issues are published per year by University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in th ...
'', 2014, Vol.71(1), pp. 251–253 eer Reviewed Journal* Liu, Petrus. "Historicizing Queer Stories from Asia." '' Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review'', 2014, Vol.3(3), pp. 259–262.
* '' Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific'', Issue 33, December 2013.
External links
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2012 non-fiction books
Books about Shanghai
Lesbian culture in Asia
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2010s LGBTQ literature
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