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Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China, Miller tells the stories of two courageous and dedicated groups of queer activists in the city of Xi'an: a grassroots gay men's HIV/AIDS organization called Tong'ai and a lesbian women's group named UNITE. Taking inspiration from "the circle," a term used to imagine local, national, and global queer communities, Miller shows how everyday people in northwest China are taking part in queer culture and activism while also striving to lead traditionally moral lives in a rapidly changing society. The queer stories in this book broaden our understandings of gender and sexuality in contemporary China and show how taking global queer diversity seriously requires us to de-center Western cultural values, historical experiences, and theoretical perspectives

by So Ying-lun. ; Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-91). ; ABSTRACT --- p.ii ; TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii ; Chapter ; Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.1 --- Focus of the Study ; Chapter 1.2 --- Importance of the Study ; Chapter II --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Definitions --- p.5 ; Chapter 2.1.1 --- Illegal or Unethical? --- p.6 ; Chapter 2.1.2 --- Public Sector vs. Private Sector Corruption --- p.8 ; Chapter 2.1.3 --- What are 'Private' Gains? --- p.10 ; Chapter 2.1.4 --- Defining Corruption for This Study --- p.11 ; Chapter 2.2 --- Extent of the Problem of Corruption in the PRC --- p.12 ; Chapter 2.2.1 --- Official Figures on Corruption --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.2.2 --- Perceptions of the Seriousness of Corruption in the PRC --- p.14 ; Chapter 2.2.3 --- Open Admission of Direct Experience of Corruption in China --- p.16 ; Chapter 2.2.4 --- Extent of the Problem in Terms of the Amount of Briber Taken --- p.17 ; Chapter 2.3 --- Causes of the Problem in China --- p.18 ; Chapter 2.4 --- Characteristics of Corruption in the PRC --- p.21 ; Chapter 2.4.1 --- Generalizations about the Details of Corruption in the PRC --- p.21 ; Chapter 2.4.2 --- Factors Affecting Frequency of Corruption Encountered --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.5 --- Different Considerations Relating to How Graft is Handled --- p.23 ; Chapter 2.5.1 --- Ethical Issues --- p.24 ; Chapter 2.5.2 --- Legal Considerations --- p.29 ; Chapter 2.5.3 --- Political Considerations --- p.36 ; Chapter 2.5.4 --- Pressures of the Marketplace --- p.38 ; Chapter 2.6 --- Coping with Corruption --- p.39 ; Chapter 2.7 --- Research Questions --- p.43 ; Chapter III. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.45 ; Chapter 3.1 --- Research Approach --- p.45 ; Chapter 3.2 --- Data Collection --- p.46 ; Chapter 3.2.1 --- Sampling --- p.46 ; Chapter 3.2.2 --- The Interview --- p.47 ; Chapter 3.3 --- Data Analysis --- p.50 ; Chapter IV. --- RESULTS --- p.52 ; Chapter 4.1 --- Informants' Perception of the Extent ...

This article provides a political analysis of the sequence and substance of China's policy response toward HIV/AIDS. Using an analytical framework that integrates historical institutionalism with policy process, the article examines how political institutions interacted with three policy streams (problem identification, policy generation, and elite politics) to delay an effective Chinese government response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It also demonstrates how the political, problem, and policy streams joined in the 2003 SARS crisis to prompt the government to take decisive action on HIV/AIDS. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)