Contents Acknowledgements … vii Notes on Translation and Transliteration … xi 1. Introduction: Queer Comrades … 1 2. Imagined Cosmopolitanism: Queer Spaces in Shanghai … 37 3. From Comrade to Queer: A Genealogy of Tongzhi … 65 4. How to Transform the Self: Lessons from Conversion Therapy … 93 5. Cui Zi’en the Queer: Portrait of A Filmmaker … 119 6. ‘To the People’: Travelling Queer Film Festivals … 149 7. ‘Comrades Are Also People’: Tongzhi in Mobilization … 175 8. Conclusion … 195 Bibliography … 211 Filmography … 245 Index … 247