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"The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a 'queer reading' of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turn Bali into an island imagined as an ideal male aesthetic state. Secondly, the book provides a historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI and the resistance to those notions expressed through an architectural paradise called Babylon founded by a Thai known as Khun Toc. Finally, it describes the 'cyber-paradise' of Fridae.com created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. Collectively, the study examines the pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, and the geographic and online spaces they created."--Publisher's website

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. One At the End of Empires
• ch. 1 Triple Supremacy
• ch. 2 Problem with Home (1)
• ch. 3 Men of the Feast: Saranrom
• ch. 4 Escape from Nosferatu
• ch. 5 New Man for Siam
• ch. 6 Magical Reality, Running Amok
• ch. 7 Men of the Dance
• ch. 8 Triple Taboo
• ch. 9 Pivotal Year
• ch. 10 Final Chord
• ch. 11 Dancing with Ezekiel
• ch. 12 Transition: A Murder for Paradise
• pt. Two Hope for a Better Age
• ch. 13 Nanyang Family
• ch. 14 Men of the Feast: Babylon
• ch. 15 Problem with Home (2)
• ch. 16 New Man for Thailand
• ch. 17 Men of the Net
• ch. 18 Pivotal Day

• ch. 19 Dancing under the Merlion
• ch. 20 New Nation.

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Author/Creator:

Atkins, Gary, 1949-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Imagining gay paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore [by Atkins, G.]

Subjects:

Spies, Walter — Influence

Koe, Stuart, 1972- — Influence

Khun Toc — Influence

Gay men — Southeast Asia — Social conditions

Homosexuality and art

Paradise in art

Bali (Indonesia : Province) — In art

Thailand — Civilization — Western influences

Vajiravudh, King of Siam, 1881-1925

Place (Philosophy)

Male homosexuality — Southeast Asia — History — 20th century

Masculinity — Southeast Asia — History — 20th century

Bali Island (Indonesia) — Social life and customs — 20th century

Bangkok (Thailand) — Social life and customs — 20th century

Singapore — Social life and customs

Spies, Walter

Koe, Stuart, 1972-

1900-1999

Gay men.

Civilization — Western influences

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Male homosexuality

Masculinity

Manners and customs

Gay men — Social conditions

Indonesia — Bali (Province)

Indonesia — Bali Island

Thailand

Thailand — Bangkok

Thailand — Thon Buri

Singapore

Southeast Asia

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-305) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ76.2.S644 A85 2012eb

ISBNs:

9888053892 (electronic bk.)
9789888053896 (electronic bk.)
9789888083237 (hbk.) [Invalid]
9888083236 (hbk.) [Invalid]
9789888083244 (pbk., HKU Press) [Invalid]
9888083244 (pbk., HKU Press) [Invalid]
9786162150364 (pbk., Silkworm) [Invalid]
6162150364 (pbk., Silkworm) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1053125727

Other Control Numbers:

EBC877736 (source: MiAaPQ)