"More than just an ethnographic observation of women who identify as lala in China, this compelling and impressively researched study analyses the numerous social forces that produce sexual normativity while documenting the intricate ways through which wo

"Weaving between her own queer biography and extensive ethnographic data of 25 lala women, Kam presents the up-to-date lesbian communities and politics in urban China which contribute to the international debates of same-sex intimacies, coming out politic

Lucetta Yip Lo Kam is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the editor and illustrator of Lunar Desires Her First Same-Sex Love in Her Own Words (in Chinese, a collection of 26 self-narratives of women from Hong Kong, Macau and the overseas, 2001).