China's Sexy Youth Culture

Sexy Youth CultureJill Hankemeier

China’s youth are changing faster than anyone in the world.

A life of Chinese tradition with heavy Western influence.

The dissonance is causing complex political and social pressures.

A conflict in creating a self

identity different than

tradition.

Welcome wave of ‘body writers’

WeiHui (卫慧）

Shanghai Baby

A look inside drugs, sex, and prostitution—never seen before. Banned by PRC, but reprinted and sold in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Later became a Western film.

Mian Mian (棉棉）

Candy exposed the world of drugs and sex as symbolic of something being sweet and harmful at same time…

China’s youth are breaking away from tradition in order to better self express themselves.

Homosexuality is linked to Western culture infiltration

Bishōnen

New openness to display identity post 1985 transcending preconceived ideas of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’.

Drag is still mostly underground entertainment with closeted performers

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