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Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests (2021)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2021). Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests. Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.crwi5533

This article focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the newly emerged pan-Asian political identity following the recent transnational ‘Stop Asian Hate’ movement. Using the recent ‘Stop Asian Hate’ Birmingham rally as a case study, this articl... Read More about Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests.

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.

“A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2021). “A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China. Translation and Interpreting Studies, 16(2), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.19069.bao

This article traces the historical moment when queer theory first arrived in mainland China in the early 2000s by comparing and contrasting two translated texts in Chinese: Wang Fengzhen’s book Guaiyi Lilun [Peculiar Theory] and Li Yinhe’s book Ku’er... Read More about “A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China.

The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa. Global Media and China, 5(3), 294-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420949985

© The Author(s) 2020. In this article, I examine grassroots cinematic connections between China and Africa by using Queer University, short for the Queer University Video Capacity Building Training Program, a 3-year (2017–2019) participatory video pr... Read More about The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa.

‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
BAO, H. (2020). ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 12(1), 53 – 63

In this short essay, I introduce the ‘Anti-Domestic Violence Little Vaccine’ campaign in China during the COVID-19. After a brief introduction of the campaign by using first-person accounts from the organiser Guo Jing, I will then sum up some of the... Read More about ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19.

The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival (2020)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2020). The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival. In S. Presence, M. Wayne, & J. Newsinger (Eds.), Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisation and Activists (190-202). Routledge

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.

‘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.

Screening Sexualities, Identities and Politics: Queer Cinema in Postsocialist China (2020)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2020). Screening Sexualities, Identities and Politics: Queer Cinema in Postsocialist China. In K. Latham (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society (361-375). Routledge

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.

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.

Performing Gender in Chinese Cinema (2019)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2019). Performing Gender in Chinese Cinema. In Routledge Handbook of Gender in East Asia Gender Studies. Routledge

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
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.

Love Your Films and Love Your Life: An Interview with Fan Popo (2019)
Journal Article
Hongwei, B. (2019). Love Your Films and Love Your Life: An Interview with Fan Popo. positions, 27(4), 799-809. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7726994

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
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.