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Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys is apparently the first Chinese-language novel to take up the topic of (modern/postwar) homosexuality! I wonder if Pai read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask or Forbidden Colors, though Pai wrote Crystal Boys 30 years after Mishima's texts.
Crystal Boys I think continues Forbidden Colors's question of age, which is something that was merely latent in the latter.

Currently re-reading for my thesis! It might just be me, but the more I read, the more compassion I feel towards the characters.

Very fascinating so far, with a good overview of the scholarly field
I wonder how queerness differs from deconstruction though, besides the connection of the former to queer activism

Nothing too weird yet, but I guess it's coming eventually!