Lisa Rofel

Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita at University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes in the fields of transnational feminist theory and postcolonial feminisms; Chinese feminisms; socialism and post-socialism; transnational capitalism; queer theory and sexuality studies; modernity, desire, and neoliberalism; labor and capital in China; documentary film; grassroots social movements; cosmopolitanism; and China’s historical and contemporary worlding projects.

Her most recent publications include: Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion, co-authored with Sylvia Yanagisako (Duke Press, 2019); editor of the translations of essays by Dai Jinhua in After the Post-Cold War: Essays by Dai Jinhua (Duke Press, 2018); The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America, co-edited with Paul Amar, Maria Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli (Stanford University Press, 2022); New World Orderings: China and the Global South, co-edited with Carlos Rojas (Duke Press, 2023); Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories by Cui Zi’en, co-edited translations with Petrus Liu (Duke Press, 2024); Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality and Public Culture (Duke, 2007); Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism (University of California, 1999).