Lisa Rofel: 3 books

Book cover of Desiring China

Desiring China

Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

by Lisa Rofel, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007

Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects”...
Book cover of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism

Fabricating Transnational Capitalism

A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion

by Lisa Rofel, Sylvia J. Yanagisako
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018

In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how...
Book cover of China and New Left Visions

China and New Left Visions

Political and Cultural Interventions

by Xiaomei Chen, Daniel F. Vukovich, Xueping Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012

Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development....
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