Bingchang Sun is a PhD candidate in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research lies at the intersection of sociology and history, drawing on feminist, queer, and psychoanalytic approaches.

When Heteropatriarchy Turns You On

Masculinity, Masochism, and the Erotics of Normativity

A tenacious heteropatriarchal logic of gender normativity continues to script the behaviour of Chinese gay men. It was a decade ago when Tiantian Zheng (2015) made the anthropological observation that the kind of gay sex that Chinese homosexuals were having was, essentially, not about sex. The bottoms she interviewed confessed to a lack of sexual […]

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