Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. Mediations and Transmediations: Erotics, Sociality, and "Asia" / Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein  1

1. Wayward Erotics: Mediating Queer Diasporic Return / Martin F. Manalansan IV  33

2. For Your Reading Pleasure: Self-Health (Ziwo Baojian) Information in Beijing in the 1990s / Judith Farquhar  53

3. Zines and Zones of Desire: Mass-Mediated Love, National Romance, and Sexual Citizenship in Gay Indonesia / Tom Boellstorff  75

4. Correspondence Marriages, Imagined Virtual Communities, and Countererotics on the Internet / Nicole Constable  111

5. Flows between the Media and the Clinic: Desiring Production and Social Production in Urban Beijing / Everett Yuehong Zhang  139

6. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century India / Purnima Mankekar  173

7. Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video / Louisa Schein  203

8. Another Kind of Love? Debating Homosexuality and Same-Sex Intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese Film Reception / Sara L. Friedman  233

9. Born under Western Eyes: The Politics and Erotics of the Documentary Gaze in Born into Brothels / Heather Dell  267

10. American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies / Anne Allison  297

References  323

Contributors  357

Index  359

Purnima Mankekar

Louisa Schein

Martin F. Manalansan IV

Judith Farquhar

Tom Boellstorff

Nicole Constable

Everett Yuehong Zhang

Sara L. Friedman

Heather Dell

Anne Allison

"Poised at the intersection of Asian studies, media studies, and sexuality studies, Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia recasts those fields. The book is an outstanding selection for any course focusing on globalization or sexual modernity."—Ara Wilson, author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City

"Edited by two leading anthropologists, this volume promises much and delivers. The geographic spread, including China, Laos, Vietnam, India, Japan, Indonesia, and their diasporas, and the variety of media—from zines to manga and from Bollywood to Internet chat rooms to television—suggest this book should attract a broad audience."—Kath Weston, author of Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor

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