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The 'Queer Generation': Queer Community Documentary in Contemporary China (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2019). The 'Queer Generation': Queer Community Documentary in Contemporary China. Transnational Screens, 10(3), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2019.1662197

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
Bao, H. (2019). Metamorphosis of a butterfly: Neo-liberal subjectivation and queer autonomy in Xiyadie's papercutting art. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6(2-3), 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00006_1

© 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 Queer Filmmaker and Activist He Xiaopei (2019)
Journal Article
BAO, H. (2019). Queer History, Culture, and Activism in China: A Conversation with Queer Filmmaker and Activist He Xiaopei. Made in China Journal, 4(1), 96-105

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
Bao, H. (2019). Queer eye for Chinese women: Locating queer spaces in Shitou's film Women Fifty Minutes. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6(1), 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca.6.1.77_1

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.

Conversion therapy in China (2019)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2019). Conversion therapy in China. In H. Chiang, A. Arondekar, M. Epprecht, J. Evans, R. G. Forman, H. Al-Samman, E. Skidmore, & Z. Tortorici (Eds.), Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer ( LGBTQ) History (418-422). Charles Scribner & Sons

‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema (2018)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2018). ‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema. Global Media and China, 3(4), 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436418818274

© The Author(s) 2018. This article offers a critical analysis of Matthew Baren’s 2018 film Extravaganza, a documentary about drag scenes in Shanghai. By focusing on some drag performers represented in this film, in tandem with an examination of the s... Read More about ‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema.

Homosexuality, social media activism and the future of a queer China (2018)
Digital Artefact
Bao, H. (2018). Homosexuality, social media activism and the future of a queer China. [Article, Asia Dialogue]

A new policy of banning homosexuality related content announced by Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like Chinese language social media platform, has recently triggered heated public debates about LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) rights; it... Read More about Homosexuality, social media activism and the future of a queer China.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (2018)
Book
Bao, H. (2018). Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China. Nias Press

• First book on gay identity and queer activism in the PRC examined from a cultural studies perspective.
• An interdisciplinary project that combines historical and critical analysis of queer cultural texts and ethnographic studies of queer public c... Read More about Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China.

Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and His Poetry (2018)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2018). Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and His Poetry. In R. West-Pavlov (Ed.), The Global South and Literature (185-197). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108231930.015

This chapter discusses the impact of and resistance to neoliberalism inthe Global South via a discussion of the queer Chinese poet Mu Cao andhis poems.1Adopting a cultural studies approach to literature, I examinethe social practice of literary produ... Read More about Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and His Poetry.

From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China (2018)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2018). From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China. JOMEC Journal, 12, https://doi.org/10.18573/jomec.171

Although homosexuality was decriminalised in 1997 and partially depathologised in 2001, LGBTQ issues are still strictly censored in Chinese media. With the rapid growth of China’s LGBTQ community, an increasing number of independent films featuring L... Read More about From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China.

Hydromorphone for cancer pain (2016)
Journal Article
Bao, Y. J., Hou, W., Kong, X. Y., Yang, L., Xia, J., Hua, B. J., & Knaggs, R. (2016). Hydromorphone for cancer pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Article CD011108. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD011108.pub2

BACKGROUND

Cancer pain is an important and distressing symptom that tends to increase in frequency and intensity as the cancer advances. For people with advanced cancer, the prevalence of pain can be as high as 90%. It has been estimated that 30%... Read More about Hydromorphone for cancer pain.

A Preliminary Study of the Needs and Demands of the East and Southeast Asian Communities in the UK
Report
Bao, H. A Preliminary Study of the Needs and Demands of the East and Southeast Asian Communities in the UK. Covid-19 Anti-Racism Group

From 8 to 15 May 2021, the researcher conducted a short online survey within East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities in the UK. The aim of this survey was to find out about some of the popular ESEA community needs and demands in the context of th... Read More about A Preliminary Study of the Needs and Demands of the East and Southeast Asian Communities in the UK.