All Outputs (55)

‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). ‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history. Continuum, 34(4), 514-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2020.1785079

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines the politics of narrating feminist and queer histories in contemporary China. Focusing on Zhao Jing and Shi Tou’s 2015 film, We Are Here, a documentary made... Read More about ‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history.

Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One. Feminist Media Studies, 20(4), 530-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754632

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article focuses on the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in the 2011 documentary The Lucky One (宠儿), jointly made by Chinese filmmaker and queer activist He Xiaopei and Zh... Read More about Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One.

Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (2020)
Book
Bao, H. (2020). Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism. Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027898

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these d... Read More about Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism.

Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic? (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic?. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 17(1-2), 85-90. https://doi.org/10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7299

© 2021 by the author(s). In this article, I offer a critical analysis of a video artwork titled Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (Learn German in My Kitchen) (2020), created by Berlin-based queer filmmaker Popo Fan. By focusing on Fan’s negotiation of r... Read More about Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic?.

Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2019). Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 24-37. https://doi.org/10.3898/soun.73.03.2019

Perhaps one of the most fascinating changes in the modern Chinese language in the past century has been the use of the term tongzhi (同志). In its early twentieth-century sense of ‘comrade’, tongzhi was widely used as an honorific in China’s revoluti... Read More about Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics.

Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China (2019)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2019). Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China. In Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities, (188-204). Routledge

This chapter examines health activism in the People’s Republic of China by focusing on China’s LGBTQ communities. Using Queer Comrades (Tongzhi yi fanren 同志亦凡人), a Beijing-based queer community video streaming website, as a case study, I discuss... Read More about Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China.

“I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”: An Internview with He Xiaopei (2019)
Journal Article
Xiaopei, H., Kehoe, S., & Hongwei, B. (2019). “I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”: An Internview with He Xiaopei. positions, 27(4), 811-823. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7727007

Despite decriminalization in 1997 and partial pathologization in 2001, homosexuality remains a sensitive topic in contemporary China. This is reflected in mainstream and online media where representation of LGBTQ-related issues are often subject to h... Read More about “I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”: An Internview with He Xiaopei.

The 'Queer Generation': Queer Community Documentary in Contemporary China (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2019). The 'Queer Generation': Queer Community Documentary in Contemporary China. Transnational Screens, 10(3), 201-216 . https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2019.1662197

In this article, I chart a brief history of the queer community documentary in the PRC since the 2000s by introducing its historical conditions of emergence and development. In doing so, I highlight the activist dimension of queer filmmaking and its... Read More about The 'Queer Generation': Queer Community Documentary in Contemporary China.

Metamorphosis of a butterfly: Neo-liberal subjectivation and queer autonomy in Xiyadie's papercutting art (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2019). Metamorphosis of a butterfly: Neo-liberal subjectivation and queer autonomy in Xiyadie's papercutting art. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6(2-3), 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00006_1

© 2019 Intellect Ltd Article. Celebrated as ‘China’s Tom of Finland’, Xiyadie is probably one of the best-known queer artists living in China today. His identity as a gay man from rural China and his method of using the Chinese folk art of papercutti... Read More about Metamorphosis of a butterfly: Neo-liberal subjectivation and queer autonomy in Xiyadie's papercutting art.

Queer eye for Chinese women: Locating queer spaces in Shitou's film Women Fifty Minutes (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2019). Queer eye for Chinese women: Locating queer spaces in Shitou's film Women Fifty Minutes. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6(1), 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca.6.1.77_1

This article offers a critical analysis of Chinese lesbian artist, filmmaker and activist Shitou's 2006 film Women Fifty Minutes (nüren wushi fenzhong). Focusing on the representation of queer women in the film, I discern the existence and conditions... Read More about Queer eye for Chinese women: Locating queer spaces in Shitou's film Women Fifty Minutes.

‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema (2018)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2018). ‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema. Global Media and China, 3(4), 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436418818274

© The Author(s) 2018. This article offers a critical analysis of Matthew Baren’s 2018 film Extravaganza, a documentary about drag scenes in Shanghai. By focusing on some drag performers represented in this film, in tandem with an examination of the s... Read More about ‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema.

Haunted Chinese gay identity: sexuality, masculinity and class in Beijing Story (2018)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2018). Haunted Chinese gay identity: sexuality, masculinity and class in Beijing Story. In D. Hird, & G. Song (Eds.), The cosmopolitan dream: transnational Chinese masculinities in a global age, 73-86

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (2018)
Book
Bao, H. (2018). Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China. Copenhagen, Denmark: Nias Press

• First book on gay identity and queer activism in the PRC examined from a cultural studies perspective. • An interdisciplinary project that combines historical and critical analysis of queer cultural texts and ethnographic studies of queer public c... Read More about Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China.

Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry (2018)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2018). Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry. In R. West-Pavlov (Ed.), The Global South and Literature (185-197). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108231930.015

This chapter discusses the impact of and resistance to neoliberalism inthe Global South via a discussion of the queer Chinese poet Mu Cao andhis poems.1Adopting a cultural studies approach to literature, I examinethe social practice of literary produ... Read More about Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry.

From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China (2018)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2018). From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China. JOMEC Journal, 12, https://doi.org/10.18573/jomec.171

Although homosexuality was decriminalised in 1997 and partially depathologised in 2001, LGBTQ issues are still strictly censored in Chinese media. With the rapid growth of China’s LGBTQ community, an increasing number of independent films featuring L... Read More about From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China.