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This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas' everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women's active and legitimate sexual agency. Lucetta Yip Lo Kam reads discourses on homophobia in China, including the rhetoric of "Chinese tolerance" and considers the heteronormative demands imposed on tongzhi subjects. She treats "the politics of public correctness" as a newly emerging tongzhi practice developed from the culturally specific, Chinese forms of regulation that inform tongzhi survival strategies and self-identification. Alternating between Kam's own queer biography and her extensive ethnographic findings, this text offers a contemporary portrait of female tongzhi communities and politics in urban China, making an invaluable contribution to global discussions and international debates on same-sex intimacies, homophobia, coming-out politics, and sexual governance.

本書是首部關於中國的拉拉（女同性戀、雙性戀及跨性別）社群與政治的民族志研究。在多年田野調查的基礎上，本書集中討論上海的拉拉們如何在一個否定女性性自主權的文化中自處，以及在同性慾望與強調家庭和諧及強迫婚姻之間掙扎。作者解讀了包括「華人寬容傳統」在內的中式恐同話語，揭示異性戀正統主義如何將其要求強加於同志主體之上。作者將「公共正確政治」視為一種新的同志實踐，在中國式管控下，建立同志的生存策略和自我認同。 本書結合了作者自身的酷兒經歷和堅實的研究成果，詳盡刻劃當今中國都市的女同志社群與政治的現狀，為關於同性關係、恐同、出櫃政治及性管治的全球探討和辯論作出了寶貴貢獻。

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