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Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies (2024)
Book Chapter

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.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2024)
Book Chapter

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.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2024)
Book Chapter

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

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.

Becoming Trans Celebrities: Visibility, Embodiment and Contemporary Chinese Gender Politics (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the media representation of trans identities and the articulation of trans politics in the contemporary Chinese context. Focusing on the case studies of three trans celebrities in post-2010s China, I demonstrate how their identi... Read More about Becoming Trans Celebrities: Visibility, Embodiment and Contemporary Chinese Gender Politics.

A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics (2023)
Book Chapter

This article examines He Xiaopei’s films and filmmaking career to discern how they help her articulate a queer feminist politics. He Xiaopei (Figure 1) is one of the best-known queer and feminist filmmakers and activists in contemporary China. She ha... Read More about A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics.

Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’ (2023)
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This article examines queer cinema in Mainland China in the post-Mao era. It traces a brief trajectory of its development from the emergence of queer characters on the cinematic screen from the 1990s to the proliferation of Boys’ Love representations... Read More about Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’.

Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en (2023)
Book Chapter

Cui Zi’en (b. 1958 in Harbin, China) is one of the best-known queer filmmakers, writers and activists in the Chinese-speaking world. He was the first ‘out’ gay public persona in post-Mao China, coming out on state television in 2000. He has made abou... Read More about Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en.

Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction (2023)
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This article examines queer literature in Mainland China from classical texts to contemporary Internet literature and fan fiction. Queer literature is broadly defined here as literary texts depicting non-heteronormative genders, sexualities and desir... Read More about Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction.

Queer Art as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China (2023)
Book Chapter

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 Queer Art as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China.

Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space (2023)
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This chapter examines the Imagining Queer Bandung project, a series of media and art events that took place in Berlin from June to August 2021. It sees the project as a good example of the queer people of colour’s transnational solidarity and decolon... Read More about Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space.

What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art? (2023)
Book Chapter

In this introductory chapter, we first explain the keywords crucial to our analysis, theorization and discussion, including queerness, Chineseness and contemporary art. We then move on to a brief overview of the key chapters and themes in the book, w... Read More about What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art?.

Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films (2021)
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This chapter analyses the ‘coming out’ narratives represented in two queer films from different cultural contexts: Coming Out (dir. Heiner Carow, GDR, 1989) and Lan Yu (dir. Stanley Kwan, China, 2001). Both films feature gay men’s ‘coming out’ experi... Read More about Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films.

The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child (2021)
Book Chapter

About My Parents and Their Child is a play commissioned by Ibsen International, directed by Matthias Jochmann and performed in Beijing and Shanghai in 2016 and 2017. It was one of the first times that documentary theatre as an art form appeared in Ch... Read More about The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child.

Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the production and dissemination of musical cultures in gender and sexual minority communities for political and activist purposes in the Asia Pacific, using the Beijing Queer Chorus (BQC) as a case study. As the longest running... Read More about Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China.

Being LGB in China (2021)
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As the most populous country in the world, the People’s Republic of China (PRC, otherwise known as mainland China) has an estimated 40 million lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) residents. In a country where homosexuality has only recently been decrim... Read More about Being LGB in China.

The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival (2020)
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This chapter addresses the Euro-American-centrism in the study of radical film cultures by examining cinematic and political practices in a non-Western context. It shifts radical film research’s traditional emphasis on class to an intersectional appr... Read More about The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival.

Screening Sexualities, Identities and Politics: Queer Cinema in Postsocialist China (2020)
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Since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1997 and its depathologisation in 2001, more and more mainstream and commercial films in China have started to cover Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual and Queer (LGBTQ) issues. Meanwhile, with the gro... Read More about Screening Sexualities, Identities and Politics: Queer Cinema in Postsocialist China.

Performing Gender in Chinese Cinema (2019)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, I trace a brief genealogy of how Chinese cinema engages with the issue of gender. In doing so, I examine how gender has been represented and constructed through the cinematic apparatus in different eras of modern Chinese history. I s... Read More about Performing Gender in Chinese Cinema.

Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China (2019)
Book Chapter

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.