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Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
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Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.). (2025). Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949

This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics. It situates these cultural encounters in historical and contemporary... Read More about Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture.

Queering the Asian Diaspora (2024)
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Bao, H. (2024). Queering the Asian Diaspora. SAGE Publications

The current COVID-19 pandemic has exuberated global geopolitical tensions and led to rising Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism worldwide. At the same time, there has been a nascent Asian diaspora consciousness emerging in the West, celebrating Asian id... Read More about Queering the Asian Diaspora.

Queering the Asian Diaspora : East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics (2024)
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Bao, H. (2024). Queering the Asian Diaspora : East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics. SAGE Publications

The COVID pandemic has exacerbated global geopolitical tensions and exposed Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism. Meanwhile, a nascent Asian diasporic consciousness has been emerging worldwide, celebrating Asian identity and cultural heritage. In the spa... Read More about Queering the Asian Diaspora : East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics.

Hypnosis between Science and Magic (2024)
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Stengers, I. (2024). A. Goffey (Ed.), Hypnosis between Science and Magic. Bloomsbury Publishing

What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking are at the very heart of the acclaimed philosopher of science Isabell... Read More about Hypnosis between Science and Magic.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (2024)
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Bao, H., & Ma, Y. Z. (Eds.). (2024). Queer Literature in the Sinosphere. Bloomsbury Publishing

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary bo... Read More about Queer Literature in the Sinosphere.

The Passion of the Rabbit God (2024)
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Bao, H. (2024). The Passion of the Rabbit God. Valley Press

Hongwei Bao’s debut collection charts an emotional journey through centuries and between nations, with the poet’s own migration from Inner Mongolia to Nottingham offering a unique, fascinating perspective through which to examine Asian and queer iden... Read More about The Passion of the Rabbit God.

Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (2024)
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Bao, H. (2024). Dream of the Orchid Pavilion. Big White Shed Press

Informed by his life experience as a queer Chinese migrant living in the UK, Hongwei Bao’s book ruminates upon love, intimacy, memory, heritage and identity.

On a late spring day of 353 CE, to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, a group of... Read More about Dream of the Orchid Pavilion.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality (2024)
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Jamie J., Z., & Bao, H. (Eds.). (2024). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273943

This Handbook offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical, modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities.

Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China’s modernisation and globalisation, this Handbook effectively si... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality.

Hammer Goes to Hell: The Unmade Films of the House of Horror (2023)
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Foster, K. (2023). Hammer Goes to Hell: The Unmade Films of the House of Horror. Edinburgh University Press

This book utilises never seen before materials held in the Hammer Script Archive to present a new perspective on one of the most famous British production studios of all time. While many studies of Hammer Films have been written, none have accounted... Read More about Hammer Goes to Hell: The Unmade Films of the House of Horror.

Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement (2023)
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Atkin, W. (2023). Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement. Bloomsbury Publishing

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting... Read More about Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement.

London as Screen Gateway (2023)
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Evans, E., & Guha, M. (Eds.). (2024). London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the in... Read More about London as Screen Gateway.

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (2023)
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Bao, H., Mergenthaler, D., & Zhao, J. J. (Eds.). (2023). Contemporary Queer Chinese Art. Bloomsbury Publishing

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 15 internationally renowned artists,... Read More about Contemporary Queer Chinese Art.

News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation (2022)
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Dagoula, C. (2023). News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003231776

This book provides a critical account of the impact of Twitter on journalism, exploring how the news media has adapted to and normalised the use of the platform in the industry.

Offering a comprehensive understanding of Twitter uses for journalist... Read More about News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation.

Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII (2022)
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Litten, R., & Wright, C. (Eds.). (2022). Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII. Lacanian Press

We now read Jacques Lacan’s seventeenth seminar from “the other side” of a fifty-year gap separating us from its initial delivery, at the Place du Panthéon, in the academic year 1969-1970. This is factually the case, yet viewing it this way is akin t... Read More about Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII.

Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022) (2022)
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Barredo-Ibáñez, D., Bérubé, F., López-López, P. C., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022). Atlantis Press

This book brings together a selection of papers presented at The 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022), an international event organized at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Can... Read More about Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022).

TV and Cars (2022)
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Grainge, P. (2022). TV and Cars. Edinburgh University Press

TV and Cars offers a compelling lens on television in a mobile media era. Cars are vehicles for television, a fixture of the shows and ads that drive TV. In this original approach to contemporary television, Paul Grainge looks beyond questions of spe... Read More about TV and Cars.

New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy (2021)
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Abrams, N., & Frame, G. (Eds.). (2021). New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy. Bloomsbury Publishing

As a period of film history, The American New Wave (ordinarily understood as beginning in 1967 and ending in 1980) remains a preoccupation for scholars and audiences alike. In traditional accounts, it is considered to be bookended by two periods of c... Read More about New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy.

Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines (2021)
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Krogh Groth, S., & Mansell, J. (Eds.). (2021). Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines. Sound Environment Centre, Lund University. https://doi.org/10.37852/oblu.115

Negotiating Noise Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines brings together writing by 20 researchers from across Europe and South-East Asia on the slippery but fascinating topic of noise. What is noise, where can it be heard, and what should we do with... Read More about Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines.