China doll - the experience of being a gay Chinese Australian.
This article is a stylized blend of personal history and polemical essay which investigates the relationship between race and sexuality. What starts out as a history of the narrator's experience of being a "banana"-yellow (Chinese) on the outside and white (Caucasian) on the inside-becomes a complex exploration of the various ways in which male homosexual desire is constructed and how race is both included and excluded from western constructions of homosexuality.
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D001315:Australia; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept