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Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics (2019)
Journal Article

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.

Love Your Films and Love Your Life: An Interview with Fan Popo (2019)
Journal Article

Invited by the Institute for Screen Industries Research, the University of Nottingham, Chinese queer filmmaker and activist Fan Popo visited Nottingham in February 2018 for a series of events titled “‘Queer Cinema as Art, Activism and Industry’,” inc... Read More about Love Your Films and Love Your Life: An Interview with Fan Popo.

“I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”: An Internview with He Xiaopei (2019)
Journal Article

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

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

© 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 history, culture and activism in China: a conversation with He Xiaopei (2019)
Journal Article

Queer History, Culture, and Activism in China: A Conversation with Queer Filmmaker and Activist He Xiaopei (2019)
Journal Article

He Xiaopei (何小培) is a leading queer feminist filmmaker, activist, and director of Beijing-based NGO Pink Space, an NGO dedicated to promoting sexual rights and gender equality. Her films include The Lucky One ( 宠儿, 2012), Our Marriages: Lesbians... Read More about Queer History, Culture, and Activism in China: A Conversation with Queer Filmmaker and Activist He Xiaopei.

Queer eye for Chinese women: Locating queer spaces in Shitou's film Women Fifty Minutes (2019)
Journal Article

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.