Desiring ChinaThrough window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such desiring subjects is at the core of Chinas contingent, piece by piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post socialist world. In a study at once ethnographic, historical,