Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is at the core of China’s contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist world. In a study at once ethnographic, historical, and theoretical, she contends that neoliberal subjectivities are created through the production of various desires—material, sexual, and affective—and that it is largely through their engagements with public culture that people in China are imagining and practicing appropriate desires for the post-Mao era.Drawing on her research over the past two decades among urban residents and rural migrants in Hangzhou and Beijing, Rofel analyzes the meanings that individuals attach to various public cultural phenomena and what their interpretations say about their understandings of post-socialist China and their roles within it. She locates the first broad-based public debate about post-Mao social changes in the passionate dialogues about the popular 1991 television soap opera Yearnings. She describes how the emergence of gay identities and practices in China reveals connections to a transnational network of lesbians and gay men at the same time that it brings urban/rural and class divisions to the fore. The 1999–2001 negotiations over China’s entry into the World Trade Organization; a controversial women’s museum; the ways that young single women portray their longings in relation to the privations they imagine their mothers experienced; adjudications of the limits of self-interest in court cases related to homoerotic desire, intellectual property, and consumer fraud—Rofel reveals all of these as sites where desiring subjects come into being.

什么是父权制？当代女性又是如何遭到父权制压迫和剥削的？女性解放道路在何方？
本书是作者历经十年完成的重要作品，是其在第二波女性主义接近尾声，后现代女性主义思潮、酷儿理论兴起之初，对女权主义各个派别，特别是马克思主义女权主义的再次思考。近代社会在“资本主义”支配的“市场”和“父权制”支配的“家庭形态双重控制下，以无偿的女性劳务等为中心，形成了女性地位低下的历史根源。 作者对此进行了深刻批判，并就如何改善女性的社会地位提出了中肯的建议。
本书尽管论述的是日本女性的地位问题，但其观点在相当大程度上适用于当下中国的国情。因而对于任何思考女性地位与男女平等问题的人都有着莫大的启发。

1966年发表的《词与物——人文知识的考古学》（Les Mots et les Choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines，英译《事物与秩序》The Order of Things），更是被认为是结构主义时代取代存在主义时代的重要标志。它主要的论点在于：认为每个历史阶段都有一套异于前期的知识形构规则，而现代知识型的特征则是以 “人”作为研究的中心。这本书的问世使福柯成为一位知名的法国知识分子，但也因为“人之死”的结论而饱受批评。让·保罗·萨特就曾基于此点批判此书为小资产阶级的最后壁垒。
福柯在本书中运用历史话语分析（又称“知识考古学”）的手法对自文艺复兴以来直至20世纪的整个西方“人文科学”（Humanwissenschaften）的知识构成以及文化和知识史都作了细致入微的、富有创见和深度的梳理和剖析。他指出这里的人文科学指的是将“人”作为研究对象，将“人”设计并定义成某种认知构造物的科学，围绕这个对象而生产的人文科学，可被认可为真理话语。针对此“真理话语”，福柯试图从根本上驱除笼罩在当代知识形式的决定性条件之上的人类学主体主义的迷雾，批判了自笛卡尔、尤其自康德以来200多年西方哲学传统的先验意识哲学和主体主义。在《语与物》的最后一页，福柯写道：“人将被抹去，如同大海边沙地上的一张脸。”

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

1990年面世的《性别麻烦》是女性主义理论和性别研究的重要著作，一经出版即引来赞誉和争议无数，并被奉为开创“酷儿理论”的经典文本。巴特勒因此书而一举成为当代思想界最闪耀的学术明星之一。
巴特勒在《性别麻烦》开篇，首先对“女性”作为女性主义的主体提出了质疑。她对波伏瓦、克利斯特娃、维蒂格、伊里格瑞等法国女性主义理论家的主要观点分别进行了梳理，并追溯到她们各自所依据或所反对的阳具逻格斯中心主义理论源头。她借用后结构主义、精神分析和女性主义的分析框架，通过对斯特劳斯结构主义人类学、福柯的管控性生产、拉康的原初禁制理论和弗洛伊德的性抑郁的解读，从哲学本体论层面重新追问语言、主体、性别身份等关键性概念，深刻阐述了异性恋框架下的性别身份和欲望关系是如何形成的，从而颠覆了霸权话语对性、性别、性欲的强制性规定。
巴特勒在本书中提出的、现已成为她的个人标记的“性别操演”理论，为性与性别开启了一个具有多种文化可能性的未来。
女性主义理论的必读书。
Hypatia
《性别麻烦》对性别的“自然性”提出了迄今为止最有说服力的质疑。这是一部富有创见的精彩论著。
Aandra Lee Bartky
巴特勒的作品改变了我们思考性、性别、性欲和语言的方式。她对性别身份的探问已对当代思想产生了重大影响，启发了在多个层面上对“主体”的批判性反思。
萨拉·萨莉
十年前我完成《性别麻烦》的稿子......我不知道这本书会有这么广大的读者，也不知道它会对女性主义理论构成具有挑衅意味的“介入”，并被引为开创酷儿理论的文本之一。这本书的生命超出了我的意图。
朱迪斯·巴特勒在1999年此书再版时附加了长篇序言，回应并澄清了针对此书的一些问题。

来自四川的少女刘小群（潘怡 饰）是北京动物园的饲养员，她独自居住在一间地下室内，平时只与动物做伴，过着平静孤单的生活。远在老家的母亲很是为女儿的婚事发愁，在母亲的督促下，小群一次次和陌生的男人们约会，如同例行公事一般。
某天逛街时，小群认识了做服装生意的小玲（石头 饰），二人一见如故，彼此都对对方产生了好感。最终小玲离开同居的男友，搬到了小群的住在了一起。小群母亲的到来打乱了她们平静幸福的生活，而小群之前的女朋友君君（张浅潜 饰）去而复归，更让她们陷入混乱……
本片为李玉执导的第一部剧情片。

Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime that give rise to competing visions for the nation. Nation branding is a state-sanctioned policy, captured by the slogan “From Made in China to Created in China,” which aims to transform China from a manufacturer of foreign goods into a nation that creates its own IPR-eligible brands. Counterfeit culture is the transnational making, selling, and buying of unauthorized products. This cultural dilemma of the postsocialist state demonstrates the unequal relations of power that persist in contemporary globalization.

In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture has upended the familiar dynamic of major-to-minor cultural influence, enabling hallyu to become a dominant global cultural phenomenon. At the same time, its worldwide popularity has rendered its Koreanness opaque. Kim argues that Korean cultural subjectivity over the past two decades is one steeped in ethnic rather than national identity. Explaining how South Korea leaped over the linguistic and cultural walls surrounding a supposedly “minor” culture to achieve global ascendance, Kim positions K-pop, Korean cinema and television serials, and even electronics as transformative acts of reappropriation that have created a hegemonic global ethnic identity.

Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.
Eng juxtaposes theortical discussions of Freud, Lacan, and Fanon with critical readings of works by Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lonny Kaneko, David Henry Hwang, Louie Chu, David Wong Louie, Ang Lee, and R. Zamora Linmark. While situating these literary and cultural productions in relation to both psychoanalytic theory and historical events of particular significance for Asian Americans, Eng presents a sustained analysis of dreamwork and photography, the mirror stage and the primal scene, and fetishism and hysteria. In the process, he offers startlingly new interpretations of Asian American masculinity in its connections to immigration exclusion, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, multiculturalism, and the model minority myth. After demonstrating the many ways in which Asian American males are haunted and constrained by enduring domestic norms of sexuality and race, Eng analyzes the relationship between Asian American male subjectivity and the larger transnational Asian diaspora. Challenging more conventional understandings of diaspora as organized by race, he instead reconceptualizes it in terms of sexuality and queerness.
Racial Castration will make a landmark contribution to the fields of Asian American studies, psychoanalytic theory, ethnic studies, feminism, queer theory, gay and lesbian studies, postcoloniality, and critical race theory.

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.

The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. "Cruising Utopia" seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernest Bloch, Jose Esteban Munoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O'Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future. In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Munoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a 'not yet here' that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, "Cruising Utopia" argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesoto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has extensively theorized hegemony but paid little attention to counter-hegemony. Judith Halberstam proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one's way. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. She pays particular attention to animated children's films, contending that new forms of animation, especially CGI, have generated narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Dismantling contemporary logics of success, Halberstam demonstrates that failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world.

Embodied Reckonings examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances that have grappled with the history of the “comfort women,” the Japanese military’s euphemism for the sexual enslavement of girls and young women—mostly Korean—in the years before and during World War II. Long silent, in the early 1990s these women and their supporters initiated varied performance practices—protests, tribunals, theater, and memorial-building projects—to demand justice for those affected by state-sponsored acts of violence. The book provides a critical framework for understanding how actions designed to bring about redress can move from the political and legal aspects of this concept to its cultural and social possibilities.
Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research, the study argues for the central role of performance in how Korean survivors, activists, and artists have redressed the histories—and erasures—of this sexual violence. Merging cultural studies and performance theory with a transnational, feminist analysis, the book illuminates the actions of ordinary people, thus offering ways of reconceptualizing legal and political understandings of redress that tend to concentrate on institutionalized forms of state-based remediation.

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself named "Negro" in public in France; call center agents in India trained to Americanize their accents while speaking with customers; the Algerian Jewish philosopher reflecting on his relation to the French language; African intellectuals debating the pros and cons of using English for purposes of creative writing; the translator acting by turns as a traitor and as a mourner in the course of cross-cultural exchange; Cantonese-speaking writers of Chinese contemplating the politics of food consumption; radio drama workers straddling the forms of traditional storytelling and mediatized sound broadcast.
In these riveting scenes of speaking and writing imbricated with race, pigmentation, and class demarcations, Chow suggests, postcolonial languaging becomes, de facto, an order of biopolitics. The native speaker, the fulcrum figure often accorded a transcendent status, is realigned here as the repository of illusory linguistic origins and unities. By inserting British and post-British Hong Kong (the city where she grew up) into the languaging controversies that tend to be pursued in Francophone (and occasionally Anglophone) deliberations, and by sketching the fraught situations faced by those coping with the specifics of using Chinese while negotiating with English, Chow not only redefines the geopolitical boundaries of postcolonial inquiry but also demonstrates how such inquiry must articulate historical experience to the habits, practices, affects, and imaginaries based in sounds and scripts.

我们所能眼见的物理暴力往往是某种系统暴力的产物。这种系统暴力维持着我们身处其中的政治和经济体制。为此，人们看待暴力的方式本身就是被系统所塑造的。齐泽克诊断了人们认知并扭曲暴力现象的各种形式，试图颠覆自由资本主义-基督教意识形态主宰的那种认识暴力的图像，并以“神的暴力”超越主观暴力和系统暴力的合谋。齐泽克以一部小说的故事和一句带有智者风格的话结束了他对暴力的反思：在某个民主国家的选举中，70%的投票是弃权票；重新投票后更糟，有80%的票弃权。政府认定有反政府的阴谋，因此开始秘密逮捕和审讯，却一无所获。这导致政府将应对手段不断升级，直至宣布首都进入紧急状态、炮制阴谋……最终政府自己制造出恐怖分子。然而，首都却一直继续近乎正常地运作，民众以无法理解的和谐和非暴力的抵抗阻挡了政府每一波攻击。因此，“有时，什么都不做就是最暴力的行动。”

New Chinese Cinemas analyzes the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic modernization, it also demonstrates how film has been an important formal structure and social document in the interpretation of these changes. The essays collected here, which were specially commissioned for this volume, also offer extended analyses of the important trends, styles, and work that define Chinese filmmaking in the 1980s.

本书分为上下两编，原理编扩展了一百年来符号学发展的理论基础，融合中西方符号学理论，建立一个可用于分析人类意义活动的符号学体系；推演编具体讨论了符号在人类文化中扮演的复杂作用，让读者理论与应用兼得。

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.
Liu’s innovative analysis brings the work of theorists and writers back into conversation with one another to document significant meetings of minds and disciplines. She shows how the earlier avant-garde literary experiments with alphabetical writing and the word-association games of psychoanalysis contributed to the mathematical making of digital media. Such intellectual convergence, she argues, completed the transformation of alphabetical writing into the postphonetic, ideographic system of digital media, which not only altered the threshold of sense and nonsense in communication processes but also compelled a new understanding of human-machine interplay at the level of the unconscious.
Ranging across information theory, cybernetics, modernism, literary theory, neurotic machines, and psychoanalysis, The Freudian Robot rewrites the history of digital media and the literary theory of the twentieth century.

2019年正逢五四運動一百週年，對五四遺產的重新評價與禮讚
探索長期被主流論述遮蔽的唯情論及情感啟蒙論述，企圖還原一個完整的五四故事。
情感與理性是否不相為謀，甚至水火不容？我們做決定之時，是否應該頭腦冷靜，亦即，不受情感干擾？
情感與理性的關係，從歐洲啟蒙時代就是知識分子論辯的課題，也是彭小妍在《唯情與理性的辯證：五四的反啟蒙》一書中所探討的五四啟蒙時代的重要議題。歐洲啟蒙時期有笛卡兒的理性主義，同時也有休姆與盧梭的情感主義。中國五四時期梁啟超、蔡元培所領導的人生觀派主張情感啟蒙與唯情論，大力批判科學派的啟蒙理性主義。彭小妍在《唯情與理性的辯證》一書裡探討五四轟動一時的「科學與玄學論戰」──亦即「科學與人生觀論戰」──旨在說明中國現代知識分子並未在全球情感與理性的永恆辯論中缺席；五四知識分子在認識論層面上承接先儒、啟發後進，與西方古今哲學相互發明，日後新儒家實一脈相承。研究五四的精神遺產，不要忘記當年唯情論及情感啟蒙運動對啟蒙理性主義的批判。
五四的啟蒙理性論述向來為研究主流，《唯情與理性的辯證》以五四反啟蒙論述為主軸，探討五四唯情論與啟蒙理性主義的辯證，開拓了一個嶄新的視野。本書從跨文化研究的角度追溯人生觀論述的歐亞連結脈絡，展現人生觀派發動的唯情論及情感啟蒙論述，上承歐洲啟蒙時期的情感論述，下接1960年代以來德勒茲發展的情動力概念以及李澤厚的「情本體」論。全書研究以唯情與理性的辯證，重新定義五四的知識論體系（episteme）。歷來主流論述以「全盤西化」、「拿來主義」描述五四一代，本書爬梳一般忽略的文獻資料，顯示五四知識分子在知識論上的跨文化串連，連通古今中西，打破了傳統／現代、中國／西方的二元論。重新認識五四知識界的唯情與理性辯證，目的是使現有的五四啟蒙理性論述複雜化，開展五四唯情論及情感啟蒙論述的知識論可能，更彰顯人生觀派知識分子與二戰前後新儒家興起的關聯。
《唯情與理性的辯證》顯示，唯情論與啟蒙理性的辯證共同構成了五四精神的真髓。本書所謂情感啟蒙，不僅牽涉到心理學或神經科學上的情感，更是五四唯情論所主張的唯情，牽涉到我與非我、主體與客體的相互關係，與西方的情動力是相通的；唯情論認為「情」是道德觀、人倫觀、社會觀、政治觀、國家觀、宇宙觀的關鍵。
《唯情與理性的辯證》共分六章，第一章〈「人生觀」與歐亞反啟蒙論述〉強調「人生觀」一詞作為跨文化語彙的重要性，掀起了五四時期的唯情與理性的辯證。第二章〈張東蓀《創化論》的翻譯──科學理性與「心」〉討論《創化論》的翻譯，使得「創造」、「直覺」、「綿延」等跨文化語彙，成為現代中國的日常用語，「創造社」的成立是最佳例子。哲學思想與文學的相互印證，是一個尚待開發的領域。本章結尾以徐復觀為例，探討戰後新儒家與人生觀論述的連結。第三章是〈梁漱溟的《東西文化及其哲學》〉。第四章是〈蔡元培美育運動的情感啟蒙──跨文化觀點〉。第五章〈朱謙之與袁家驊的「唯情論」──直覺與理智〉，也論及杜威的「自然主義形而上學」，說明杜威的經驗主義目的在主張「可驗證」的形上學。第六章〈方東美的《科學哲學與人生》──科哲合作，理情交得〉除討論五四期間有關方東美的中西方哲學、文學、藝術的嫻熟修養，也探討人生哲學在五四時代及其後的影響，其中最為重要的是無名氏六卷本的史詩式小說《無名書》（寫作於1945-1960）。

这是一本文化研究中国化的实验性著作。本书结合人类学、社会学、心理学、哲学等研究方法，对中国乡土文化结构、乡村经验及其微观权力形态进行了全面分析，通过对时间、空间、器物、实践的符号分析，细腻地叙述了宏观权力结构在乡村经验各个层面的相互转化过程。通过对乡土社会的“事实呈现”，该书进一步将分析引向农民心理学、乡土哲学和精神现象学领域，可视为一部乡土文化“小百科”。该书将理论逻辑融会于文学叙述之中，具有很强的可读性。