On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China

On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China

The same-sex version of « old-young love » (laoshaolian) in post-Maoist China, characterized by an age difference between male same-sex partners, which infringes both age conventions and gendered prescriptions pertaining to eroticism, differs greatly from the forms of gay culture prevalent in the ci...

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Glavni autor: Monteil, Lucas
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Izdano: Clio 2022
Teme:
sexuality
homosexuality
China
age
migration
post-Maoism
class
homosexualité
Chine
sexualité
âge
classe
migrations
post-maoïsme
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_1087 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.1087 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.1087 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/1087 2022-10-11T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3u8 All rights reserved On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Monteil, Lucas sexuality homosexuality China age migration post-Maoism class homosexualité Chine sexualité âge classe migrations post-maoïsme The same-sex version of « old-young love » (laoshaolian) in post-Maoist China, characterized by an age difference between male same-sex partners, which infringes both age conventions and gendered prescriptions pertaining to eroticism, differs greatly from the forms of gay culture prevalent in the city centres frequented by the new Chinese middle and upper classes. Such liaisons, formed as a result of the sexual and affective ties established in the wider context between old « locals » and young migrant workers, and having their origins in the ordinary forms and spaces of a predominantly masculine, popular and intergenerational sociability, appear above all to be rooted in the context of post-Mao reform and the opening up of China, in which reconfigurings of discursive space, economic organization and social structure play a major part. Axée autour de la différence d’âge entre partenaires masculins, contrevenant tant, en matière érotique, aux conventions d’âge qu’aux prescriptions sexuées, la configuration de l’« amour vieux-jeune » (laoshaolian) homosexuel diffère singulièrement des formes de culture gay qui se déploient dans les espaces urbains centraux fréquentés par les nouvelles classes moyennes et supérieures chinoises. Constituée des liens sexuels et affectifs qui s’établissent dans la métropole entre vieux « locaux » et jeunes travailleurs migrants, imbriquée dans les formes et les lieux ordinaires d’une sociabilité principalement masculine, populaire et intergénérationnelle, elle apparaît avant tout ancrée dans le contexte de la Chine des réformes et de l’ouverture post-maoïstes, au sein duquel les reconfigurations de l’espace discursif, de l’organisation économique et de la structure sociale jouent un rôle central.
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topic sexuality
homosexuality
China
age
migration
post-Maoism
class
homosexualité
Chine
sexualité
âge
classe
migrations
post-maoïsme
spellingShingle sexuality
homosexuality
China
age
migration
post-Maoism
class
homosexualité
Chine
sexualité
âge
classe
migrations
post-maoïsme
Monteil, Lucas
On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China
description The same-sex version of « old-young love » (laoshaolian) in post-Maoist China, characterized by an age difference between male same-sex partners, which infringes both age conventions and gendered prescriptions pertaining to eroticism, differs greatly from the forms of gay culture prevalent in the city centres frequented by the new Chinese middle and upper classes. Such liaisons, formed as a result of the sexual and affective ties established in the wider context between old « locals » and young migrant workers, and having their origins in the ordinary forms and spaces of a predominantly masculine, popular and intergenerational sociability, appear above all to be rooted in the context of post-Mao reform and the opening up of China, in which reconfigurings of discursive space, economic organization and social structure play a major part.
author Monteil, Lucas
author_facet Monteil, Lucas
author_sort Monteil, Lucas
title On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China
title_short On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China
title_full On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China
title_fullStr On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China
title_full_unstemmed On “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-Maoist China
title_sort on “old-young love”: age, class and male homosexuality in post-maoist china
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