Today we will invite our guest, Ziyi Chen to discuss how Li Yu portrays male homosexuality and female homosexuality differently by comparing The Fragrant Companion and Male Mencius's Mother.

Primary material:

Yu, Li. The Fragrant Companions: A Play About Love Between Women. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2022. https://doi-org.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/10.7312/li--20628

Li, Yu, and Patrick Hanan. 1990. Silent Operas = (Wusheng Xi). Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Secondary material:

Shi, Liang. "Mirror rubbing: A critical genealogy of pre-modern Chinese female same-sex eroticism." Journal of homosexuality 60, no. 5 (2013): 750-772.

Volpp, Sophie. "The Discourse on Male Marriage: Li Yu's “A Male Mencius's Mother”." positions: east asia cultures critique2, no. 1 (1994): 113-132.

Chen, Jiayi. "The Fragrant Companions: A Play About Love Between Women by Li Yu." Chinese Studies International 28, no. 1 (2024): 1-6.