Sideways Developments

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"Sideways Developments innovatively employs queer theory, cultural studies, and legal analysis to offer a nuanced understanding of Hong Kong's socio-political landscape. Kai Hang Cheang not only contextualizes legal advancements in Hong Kong but also connects them to broader discussions about queer rights, making it a valuable contribution to LGBTQ+ scholarship." -- John Erni, The Education University of Hong Kong "Sideways Developments is a rare project that delves deeply into both contemporary Sinophone and Anglophone Hong Kong literature and visual culture, both within and outside the city. It contributes to the emerging global Hong Kong and Hong Kong diaspora studies. The global intersectional approach on Hong Kong is an innovative framework and position that serves as a timely response to the changing political and cultural landscapes of post-2014 Hong Kong, which has become increasingly under the influence of international politics." -- Lucetta Kam, Hong Kong Baptist University "Kai Hang Cheang brings our attention to Hong Kong, a complex site of global finance, British colonialism, and Chinese capital, along with the protests that question each. Amidst this center of capitalist development, a vibrant queer and trans culture exists. Sideways Developments studies the dynamic overlap of sideways queer and trans life amidst development, offering an exciting example of the best of what queer critique offers when bringing together the economic with the aesthetic." -- Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego "Sideways Developments is a deeply researched and theoretically adventurous study of queer and trans cultural productions in contemporary Hong Kong. Replete with local details while ambitiously global in approach, the book contributes indelibly to our understanding not only of postcolonial Hong Kong culture but, more vitally, what it means to think 'sideways' and to create from the margins." -- Helen Leung, Simon Fraser University