Red Love Across the Pacific ─ Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century

This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as a combined form of political and sexual revolution for both women and men, gay and straight, and follows its trajectory during the twentieth century. Red Love expressed a desire for a new society where love itself would be radically reconfigured. Examining film, literature, biography and the censor's archive, this book analyzes the transnational trade in representation of new, radical, often working-class forms of desire as well as the institutions that emerged to suppress them in Australia, Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and North America. Crossing not only the Pacific but also the great divide of the pre- and post-Cold War, this book offers compelling case studies of sexual and political revolutionaries whose excavated stories transform our understanding of the twentieth century's sexual and political history.

Ruth Barraclough is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. She is the author of Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence and Representation in Industrializing Korea.

Heather Bowen-Struyk is Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She is coeditor, with Norma Field, of For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature.

Paula Rabinowitz is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literature.