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Queering the Asian Diaspora (2024)
Book
Bao, H. (in press). Queering the Asian Diaspora. SAGE Publications

The current COVID-19 pandemic has exuberated global geopolitical tensions and led to rising Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism worldwide. At the same time, there has been a nascent Asian diaspora consciousness emerging in the West, celebrating Asian id... Read More about Queering the Asian Diaspora.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (2024)
Book
Bao, H., & Ma, Y. Z. (Eds.). (2024). Queer Literature in the Sinosphere. Bloomsbury Publishing

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary bo... Read More about Queer Literature in the Sinosphere.

Rethinking Transmedia Audiences (2024)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2025). Rethinking Transmedia Audiences. In The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences. Routledge

Transmediality has become a key way for understanding the changes in how audiences experience media that have emerged as a result of technological change. However, the vast, complex storyworlds embedded in the idea of “transmedia storytelling” have n... Read More about Rethinking Transmedia Audiences.

Decolonising Drag (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Decolonising Drag. In Drag Vistas & Visions: Drag in a Changing Scene. Bloomsbury

This chapter starts with a question: how do queer artists of Asian heritage living outside Asia do drag? This question is primarily motivated by the understanding that there are distinct drag traditions in each country and culture, and that there has... Read More about Decolonising Drag.

The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum (2024)
Journal Article
Mediastika, C. E., Sudarsono, A. S., Utami, S. S., Setiawan, T., Mansell, J. G., Santosa, R. B., Wiratama, A., Yanti, R. J., & Cliffe, L. (2024). The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum. Built Heritage, 8(1), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0

Kotagede, the capital of the ancient Mataram Kingdom and currently an area in the Yogyakarta Province of Indonesia, is known as a ‘real living museum’. It was previously a residential area with many vital premises and heritage buildings that became a... Read More about The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum.

Queerness as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2024). Queerness as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China. In P. Gladston, L. Howarth-Gladston, J. Tsong-zung Chang, & J. Kuo (Eds.), Rethinking Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art: Cultural Diversity and Tradition (91-108). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2906-7_4

This chapter discusses some of the ways in which queer art is displayed in contemporary China, where the public expression and circulation of queerness is prohibited. The government ban on queer content does not mean that queer art does not exist in... Read More about Queerness as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China.

Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation (2024)
Journal Article
Salimbeni, G., Benford, S., Reeves, S., & Martindale, S. (2024). Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation. Leonardo, 57(4), 415–421. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02546

The article presents a historical overview of the classification of contemporary artworks that either have utilized artificial intelligence as a tool in their creation or focus on AI as their central theme or subject matter. The authors analyze artwo... Read More about Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation.

The Passion of the Rabbit God (2024)
Book
Bao, H. (2024). The Passion of the Rabbit God. Valley Press

Hongwei Bao’s debut collection charts an emotional journey through centuries and between nations, with the poet’s own migration from Inner Mongolia to Nottingham offering a unique, fascinating perspective through which to examine Asian and queer iden... Read More about The Passion of the Rabbit God.