This section contains five chapters looking at diverse sexual subcultures and communities throughout the region. The section opens with a chapter by Patrick Galbraith on otaku sexuality in Japan. Otaku is a Japanese term originally meaning ‘you’ or ‘your house’ which in the 1980s came to be widely applied to ‘nerdy’ young men who eschewed […]

The five chapters in this section look at the politics of sexuality in the region, including the regulation and stigmatisation of certain kinds of sexual practices, identities and communities, and resistance to the governmental regulation of sexualities. The section opens with Douglas Sanders’ general overview of legal regulations pertaining to sexual minorities in the region. […]

Reproduction and its role within marriage remain central concerns for most people. This section of the volume has some chapters which focus on the historical constructions of love, sex and marriage in particular local sites and other chapters which focus on how these constructions are being transformed and challenged. Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, in her […]

In keeping with the collection’s emphasis on the transnational flows of information and imagery which are entangled with local expressions of sexuality, the volume opens with a section discussing sexualities in a transnational frame. Mark Pendleton asks a series of questions about transnational sexual politics. What forms do contemporary identity politics in the region take, […]

Vera Mackie and Mark McLelland Over the last two or three decades, sexuality studies has come to be seen as a distinctive field of academic inquiry. What is sometimes referred to as the ‘new sexuality studies’ is distinguished from earlier paradigms which looked at human sexuality through the prisms of biology, medical science, psychoanalysis, psychology […]

Completing a project as large as a Routledge handbook necessarily involves the support and cooperation of a large number of colleagues. The editors would particularly like to thank the members of the international Editorial Board listed at the front of this volume for their time and generosity in helping develop the collection. We would like […]

Toivgoo Aira has over 20 years of experience working as an STI, HIV, AIDS medical doctor in the hospital of dermato-venereology and as a head of STI, HIV, AIDS in-patients clinic of the National Center for Communicable Diseases in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She has an MPH from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1997) and completed […]

This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations in constructions of sexuality in highly developed, developing and emerging […]