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  • Contributors

Chen Yu-Rong is an activist in Taiwan. She is a member of the Gender/Sexuality Rights Association, Taiwan.

Cui Zi’en is a director, film critic, and screenwriter, as well as an assistant professor in the Theory Study Office at Beijing Film Academy. His works include Kind Enmity Fire (1991), Hurry Up Train (1992), MASS (2001), and Old Testament (2002).

Ding Naifei teaches in the English Department at the National Central University in Chung-li, Taiwan. Ding has cowritten, with Liu Jen-peng and Amie Parry, Penumbrae Query Shadow: Queer Reading Tactics (in Chinese, Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU, 2007).

David L. Eng is professor of English, comparative literature, and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, he published The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke University Press, 2010) and coedited, with Judith Halberstam and José Muñoz, a special issue of the journal Social Text (2005) entitled “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” [End Page 555]

Xiaopei He is currently the executive director of Pink Space Culture and Development Centre, an NGO she established in Beijing. Her publications include “My Fake Wedding: Stirring up the Tongzhi Movement in China,” Development (Society for International Development, www.sidint.org/development) 52, no. 1 (2009), 101–4.

Josephine Chuen-juei Ho founded and continues to head the Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University, Taiwan (sex.ncu.edu.tw), widely known for its social activism and intellectual stamina.

Hans Tao-Ming Huang is assistant professor in the English Department of National Central University, Taiwan. His essays on queer history and politics in Taiwan have appeared in Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on prostitution and the formation of sexual modernity in postwar Taiwan.

Wenqing Kang is assistant professor in the Department of History at Cleveland State University. His book Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900–1950 was published by Hong Kong University Press in 2009.

Liu Jen-peng is professor of Chinese literature at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. She is the author of Jindai zhongguo nuquan lunshu: Guozu, fanyi yu xingbie zhengzhi (Modern Chinese Discourses on Women’s Rights: The Politics of Nationalism, Translation and Gender/Sexuality) (Taipei: Xueshengshuju, 2000).

Petrus Liu is assistant professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. He is currently working on a book manuscript, “Stateless Subjects: A Political History of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel, 1915–1985.”

Amie Parry teaches literature at the English Department of National Central University in Taiwan and is a member of its Center for the Study of Sexualities. She is the author of Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen (Duke University Press, 2007).

Lisa Rofel is professor of anthropology at the University of California–Santa Cruz. Her publications include Desiring China (Duke University Press, 2007).

Shi Tou is a multimedia artist from Yuanming Garden in Beijing. Her artworks include the “weapon” series.

Wang Ping is secretary general of the Gender/Sexuality Rights Association, Taiwan. She is the recipient of Taipei City’s Outstanding Citizen Award, the Utopia Award in Thailand, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s Felipa Award in the United States. [End Page 556]

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