Outputs (309)

Cinematic Fabulation: Transgender Representation in Zhang Yuan’s Film Miss Jin Xing (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). Cinematic Fabulation: Transgender Representation in Zhang Yuan’s Film Miss Jin Xing. In C. Berry, L. Robinson, S. Qiong Yu, & L. Wu (Eds.), Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future. Amsterdam University Press

This chapter offers a critical reading of the film Miss Jin Xing by focusing on the formal and narrative strategies that the filmmaker Zhang deploys to represent Jin Xing the trans person. I draw on the Deleuzian (2004) concept of fabulation to elabo... Read More about Cinematic Fabulation: Transgender Representation in Zhang Yuan’s Film Miss Jin Xing.

On Being Queer and Underclass: Mu Cao and His Poetry (2025)
Journal Article
Bao, H., & Van Crevel, M. (in press). On Being Queer and Underclass: Mu Cao and His Poetry. Made in China Journal,

This essay introduces the life and work of the queer, underclass Chinese poet Mu Cao, one of six Prince Claus Impact Award laureates worldwide in 2024. With reference to both his ‘comrade poetry’ and his ‘battler poetry,’ the essay highlights the ori... Read More about On Being Queer and Underclass: Mu Cao and His Poetry.

A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Martindale, S., Hook, J., & Carter, R. (2025). A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis. Convergence, 31(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251321702

This article represents our editorial contribution to the exploration of immersive storytelling, broadly conceived in this Special Issue as a set of creative and design practices, audience experiences, a field of study and a toolkit of rapidly develo... Read More about A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis.

The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (235-260). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949-14

This chapter examines grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by taking the Queer University as a case study. Through semi-structured online interviews with some Queer University organisers and participants in 202... Read More about The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa.

Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (1-15). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949-1

Two prominent developments in global geopolitics in the twenty-first century have been the rise of Africa and China, and the growing prominence of their entangled histories and present. 1 But these histories, and the present they have engendered, are... Read More about Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations.

Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus (2025)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus. In H. Bao, & D. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter discusses China-Africa relations in the development of digital economy industries within the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) flagship. In doing so, the chapter explores related encounters, en... Read More about Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus.

Cancel culture: the decline of political comedy on British television in the early 2020s (2025)
Journal Article
Andrews, H., & Frame, G. (2025). Cancel culture: the decline of political comedy on British television in the early 2020s. Comedy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2025.2463773

The early 2020s saw a string of cancellations of British political comedy programmes: Mock the Week, a topical panel show; The Mash Report, a news parody; Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, a comic debate; and Spitting Image, a short-lived reboot of th... Read More about Cancel culture: the decline of political comedy on British television in the early 2020s.

Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy (2025)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy. Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, 11(1), 39-58

The Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon (ACI) launched its first Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) — abbreviated throughout this review article to DAP — in early November 2023. It did so in the capacity of a national development agency that i... Read More about Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy.

Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
Book
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.). (2025). Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949

This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics. It situates these cultural encounters in historical and contemporary... Read More about Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture.

Public Participation in Policymaking (2025)
Report
Evans, J., Davies, C., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). Public Participation in Policymaking. Economics and Social Science Research Council and MHCLG

Involving the public in local government decisions fosters democratic participation and ensures that citizens influence policies that affect their lives.

This document by John Evans and Ceri Davies (National Centre for Social Research) and Daniel... Read More about Public Participation in Policymaking.