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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Arial">I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book <I>Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary</I> (Duke University Press).</FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The book reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, <I>Backward Glances</I> shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience.<BR>
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For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke University Press, for your library, your own private collection, or an unusual birthday or Christmas present for a loved one, please visit</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
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fran<BR>
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Dr Fran Martin<BR>
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies<BR>
School of Culture and Communication<BR>
The University of Melbourne<BR>
Victoria 3010<BR>
Australia<BR>
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+613 8344 5486<BR>
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