On her part, Miya Xiong Xie examines the conspicuous unspeakability of war rape during Chinese wartime fiction produced during the Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945) and its relation to the crisis of national identity. Zhang argues that the Female Student assumed agency and appeared as a bold, active, and potentially subversive figure via the prototype of New Woman celebrated in 1920s China. Moving forward to the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Zhang traces the transformation of Female Student imagery in China from the late Qing to early Republic era. Crossing borders, Sylvia Lee examines the orchid paintings of seventeenth-century Chinese courtesans to illuminate how they were seen as sensual performances and tokens of courtship or seduction, which courtesans used to their advantage. In her article, Leslie Winston interrogates differing representations of the hermaphrodite in Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) Japan that challenged the prototype of a binary sexual paradigm promoted by sexologists. Excavating origins, Jennifer Cullen takes up the canonization of the Meiji Era writer Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896) – often considered the first woman writer of modern Japanese literature – as a site of contention revealing shifting gender roles and representations of an idealized Japanese femininity. Amidst recent reportage of discrimination against local LGBTQ groups on international media challenging Thailand’s perceived gay-friendly culture of tolerance, we begin with an interview with Ara Wilson, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, on Thailand’s localized queer and sexual identities embedded in the infrastructure of embodied capitalist modernity and international economic markets. This issue aims to provide an engagement with key themes in studies of gender and sexuality that departs from the Journal’s previous issues centered primarily on topics of social policy and international relations. The Fall 2014 issue of the Harvard Asia Quarterly focuses on Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Asia.
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