Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History (Cornell East Asia Series, 2011), Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Duke University Press, 2015), and The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus (Duke University Press, 2023).
It has become something of a truism, in both academic discourse and everyday conversation, that invisibility is a central form of queer oppression. In a culture in which queer lives are erased—whether through passive ignorance, deliberate exclusion, or reductive portrayals as tragic, broken figures—the urgency of authentic representation cannot be overstated. But when it comes […]
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