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Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines queer Chinese filmmaker Fan Popo's fiction films and curatorial practices since he moved from Beijing to Berlin in 2017. It focuses on how Fan's subject position as queer Asian diaspora impacts on his filmmaking, identity and po... Read More about Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics.

Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century (2023)
Journal Article

This introductory essay briefly reviews existing academic understandings and sociocultural imbrications of queer representations of and research on contemporary Chinese-language media and culture. We propose to conceptualize ‘queer Chinese screen stu... Read More about Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century.

The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism (2023)
Journal Article

Through public, intentional and interventionist displays of the queer body, queer Chinese artists have used performance art for identity expression, community building and social activism. This article focuses on some of these queer performance artwo... Read More about The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism.

In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines the digital and cinematic mediation of queer memory in four independent Chinese documentaries: Queer China, "Comrade" China (dir. Cui Zi"en 2008), Our Story (dir. Yang Yang, 2011), We Are Here (dir. Shi Tou and Jing Zhao, 2016)... Read More about In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries.

‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines Chinese government censorship in the intersection between queer and fan cultures and the government’s regulation of big tech companies and platform economies in the 2020s conjuncture. In the context of booming platform industrie... Read More about ‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy.