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Cinematic Fabulation: Transgender Representation in Zhang Yuan’s Film Miss Jin Xing (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). Cinematic Fabulation: Transgender Representation in Zhang Yuan’s Film Miss Jin Xing. In C. Berry, L. Robinson, S. Qiong Yu, & L. Wu (Eds.), Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future. Amsterdam University Press

This chapter offers a critical reading of the film Miss Jin Xing by focusing on the formal and narrative strategies that the filmmaker Zhang deploys to represent Jin Xing the trans person. I draw on the Deleuzian (2004) concept of fabulation to elabo... Read More about Cinematic Fabulation: Transgender Representation in Zhang Yuan’s Film Miss Jin Xing.

EDI film policies and their discontents (2025)
Book Chapter
Cobb, S., & Newsinger, J. (2025). EDI film policies and their discontents. In R. Cheung, J. Hill, N. Kawashima, & P. McDonald (Eds.), Global Film Policies: New Perspectives (130-147). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003171287-8

Using policy to increase equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the film workforce is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the UK, it was not until 2000 that increasing workforce diversity was explicitly codified as a film policy aim. Since then, E... Read More about EDI film policies and their discontents.

Improving Public Funding Allocation to Reduce Geographical Inequalities (2025)
Report
Hoole, C., Pike, A., Green, A., Agarwal, S., Ayres, S., Davies, C., Davies, J., Emmerich, M., Gilmour, J., Mutibwa, D. H., Russell, M., Taylor, A., & Velthuis, S. (2025). Improving Public Funding Allocation to Reduce Geographical Inequalities. ESRC and MHCLG

The UK faces severe geographical inequalities that manifest across multiple dimensions – including productivity, income, education, and health – and in different ways within and between areas. These multifaceted issues and their spatial expression cr... Read More about Improving Public Funding Allocation to Reduce Geographical Inequalities.

The UK Creative Industries Public Funding Allocations and Investment Review (2025)
Report
Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). The UK Creative Industries Public Funding Allocations and Investment Review. Economic and Social Research Council and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

The creative industries in the UK are not only the country’s most powerful engines of growth, but also an important source of innovation and welfare development.
British creative industries have also been identified as a critical asset to help build... Read More about The UK Creative Industries Public Funding Allocations and Investment Review.

On Being Queer and Underclass: Mu Cao and His Poetry (2025)
Journal Article
Bao, H., & Van Crevel, M. (2025). On Being Queer and Underclass: Mu Cao and His Poetry. Made in China Journal, July-December 2024(2),

This essay introduces the life and work of the queer, underclass Chinese poet Mu Cao, one of six Prince Claus Impact Award laureates worldwide in 2024. With reference to both his ‘comrade poetry’ and his ‘battler poetry,’ the essay highlights the ori... Read More about On Being Queer and Underclass: Mu Cao and His Poetry.

A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Martindale, S., Hook, J., & Carter, R. (2025). A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis. Convergence, 31(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251321702

This article represents our editorial contribution to the exploration of immersive storytelling, broadly conceived in this Special Issue as a set of creative and design practices, audience experiences, a field of study and a toolkit of rapidly develo... Read More about A collective interdisciplinary agenda for immersive storytelling: Editorial analysis.

Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus (2025)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus. In H. Bao, & D. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter discusses China-Africa relations in the development of digital economy industries within the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) flagship. In doing so, the chapter explores related encounters, en... Read More about Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus.

The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (235-260). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949-14

This chapter examines grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by taking the Queer University as a case study. Through semi-structured online interviews with some Queer University organisers and participants in 202... Read More about The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa.

Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (1-15). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581949-1

Two prominent developments in global geopolitics in the twenty-first century have been the rise of Africa and China, and the growing prominence of their entangled histories and present. 1 But these histories, and the present they have engendered, are... Read More about Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations.

Cancel culture: the decline of political comedy on British television in the early 2020s (2025)
Journal Article
Andrews, H., & Frame, G. (2025). Cancel culture: the decline of political comedy on British television in the early 2020s. Comedy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2025.2463773

The early 2020s saw a string of cancellations of British political comedy programmes: Mock the Week, a topical panel show; The Mash Report, a news parody; Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, a comic debate; and Spitting Image, a short-lived reboot of th... Read More about Cancel culture: the decline of political comedy on British television in the early 2020s.

Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy (2025)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy. Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, 11(1), 39-58

The Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon (ACI) launched its first Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) — abbreviated throughout this review article to DAP — in early November 2023. It did so in the capacity of a national development agency that i... Read More about Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy.

Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
Book
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.

Public Participation in Policymaking (2025)
Report
Evans, J., Davies, C., & Mutibwa, D. H. (2025). Public Participation in Policymaking. Economics and Social Science Research Council and MHCLG

Involving the public in local government decisions fosters democratic participation and ensures that citizens influence policies that affect their lives.

This document by John Evans and Ceri Davies (National Centre for Social Research) and Daniel... Read More about Public Participation in Policymaking.

Queering the Asian Diaspora (2024)
Book
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.

Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the Discourse of the University (2024)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2024). Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the Discourse of the University. In Á. . J. Vidal Bouzon, A. Sharman, & K. Shingler (Eds.), Other ‘68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ‘68. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This chapter tracks the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s evolving position on the French experi-ence of May 1968. Lacanian notions around structure and desire were clearly at play in the run up to the May events and initially Lacan was supportive of bot... Read More about Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the Discourse of the University.

Becoming a Trans Celebrity in Contemporary China: Visibility, Embodiment and Post-Mao Gender Politics (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2024). Becoming a Trans Celebrity in Contemporary China: Visibility, Embodiment and Post-Mao Gender Politics. In E. L. Engebretsen, & J. Zeng (Eds.), Feminist Activism in Post-2010s China: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements. Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines the media representation of trans identities and the articulation of trans politics in the contemporary Chinese context. Focusing on the case studies of three trans celebrities in post-2010s China, I demonstrate how their identi... Read More about Becoming a Trans Celebrity in Contemporary China: Visibility, Embodiment and Post-Mao Gender Politics.

Queering the Asian Diaspora : East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics (2024)
Book
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)
Book
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.

Introduction: Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Ma, Y. (2024). Introduction: Queer Literature in the Sinosphere. In H. Bao, & Y. Zhengtang Ma (Eds.), Queer Literature in the Sinosphere. Bloomsbury Publishing

In this introductory chapter of the book, we first trace a brief literary history in the Sinosphere, focusing on the modern and the contemporary eras. We then review major scholarship in English on the topic, identifying the book’s scholarly contribu... Read More about Introduction: Queer Literature in the Sinosphere.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (2024)
Book
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.