All Outputs (4)

Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films. In Research Handbook on Political Propaganda (156-167). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906424.00018

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
Bao, H. (2021). The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child. In F. Gilardi, & C. Lam (Eds.), Transmedia in Asia and the Pacific: Industry, Practice and Transcultural Dialogues (233-258). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7857-1_11

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
Bao, H. (2021). Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China. In Sound Communities: Music, Media, and Technology in the Asia Pacific (193-209). Bloomsbury Publishing

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)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Being LGB in China. In P. Gerber (Ed.), Worldwide perspectives on lesbians, gays and bisexuals: culture, history and law. Volume 3, The global picture (119-137). Praeger Press

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.