Outputs (64)

Cui Zi'en on Queer Literature: A Conversation (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Zi'en, C. (2024). Cui Zi'en on Queer Literature: A Conversation. In H. Bao, & Y. Z. Ma (Eds.), Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (245-252). Bloomsbury Publishing

Decolonising Drag: When Queer Asian Artists Do Drag (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Decolonising Drag: When Queer Asian Artists Do Drag. In M. Edward, & S. Farrier (Eds.), Drag Vistas and Visions: Drag in a Changing Scene. Volume 3

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: When Queer Asian Artists Do Drag.

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.

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.

Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (2024)
Book
Bao, H. (2024). Dream of the Orchid Pavilion. Big White Shed Press

Informed by his life experience as a queer Chinese migrant living in the UK, Hongwei Bao’s book ruminates upon love, intimacy, memory, heritage and identity.

On a late spring day of 353 CE, to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, a group of... Read More about Dream of the Orchid Pavilion.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2024). When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

Tracing a brief genealogy of the emergence of queer theory in Mainland China, this chapter identifies three key historical moments when queer theory travelled to the People’s Republic of China at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of... Read More about When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China.

Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies (2024)
Book Chapter
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. (2024). Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

This introduction to the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality provides an overview of the edited volume. In this chapter, the co-editors of the Handbook discuss the book’s disciplinary interventions and scholarly contribution, as well a... Read More about Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality (2024)
Book
Jamie J., Z., & Bao, H. (Eds.). (2024). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273943

This Handbook offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical, modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities.

Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China’s modernisation and globalisation, this Handbook effectively si... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2024). When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

Tracing a brief genealogy of the emergence of queer theory in Mainland China, this chapter identifies three key historical moments when queer theory travelled to the People’s Republic of China at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of... Read More about When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China.

Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender & Sexuality Studies (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Zhao, J. J. (2024). Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender & Sexuality Studies. In Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality (1-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273943-1

This introduction to the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality provides an overview of the edited volume. In this chapter, the co-editors of the Handbook discuss the book's disciplinary interventions and scholarly contribution, as well as... Read More about Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender & Sexuality Studies.