"Siu Leung Li has revealed a solid and insightful ability to handle traditional Chinese scholarship as well as modern theories of cultural politics." -- Professor Sai-shing Yung, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore

"This is the first ever in-depth study about Chinese opera that offers a reading that is thoroughly informed by queer theories almost in their entirety. Such an approach differs from the traditional comparative literature (including the so-called sinology

"The author has amassed an impressive body of material to address a myriad of issues relating to cross-dressing and gender representation on the Chinese stage. Chinese opera offers rich soil for interpretation, and this fascinating subject has rarely been

Siu Leung Li is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was Joukowsky postdoctoral fellow at Brown University. Returning to post-handover Hong Kong in 1998, he first joined the Humanities Division at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Crossing over from comparative literature to cultural studies via the interfacing of postmodern and postcolonial criticism, he has published on Hong Kong popular culture and film, Chinese drama and comparative literary studies.