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Becoming Trans Celebrities: Visibility, Embodiment and Contemporary Chinese Gender Politics (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Becoming Trans Celebrities: Visibility, Embodiment and Contemporary Chinese Gender Politics. In 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 Trans Celebrities: Visibility, Embodiment and Contemporary Chinese Gender Politics.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

Tracing a brief genealogy of the emergence of queer theory in Mainland China, this chapter identifies three key historical moments when queer theory travelled to the People’s Republic of China at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of... Read More about When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China.

Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Zhao, J. J. (in press). Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies. In Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality. Routledge

This introduction to the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality provides an overview of the edited volume. In this chapter, the co-editors of the Handbook discuss the book’s disciplinary interventions and scholarly contribution, as well a... Read More about Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies.

A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2023). A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics. In F. Chan, F. Elliott, & A. Willis (Eds.), Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories (13-28). Edinburgh University Press

This article examines He Xiaopei’s films and filmmaking career to discern how they help her articulate a queer feminist politics. He Xiaopei (Figure 1) is one of the best-known queer and feminist filmmakers and activists in contemporary China. She ha... Read More about A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics.

"Should I stay (on X) or should I go?” Three causes of journalistic self-censorship on x (2023)
Book Chapter
Dagoula, C. (2023). "Should I stay (on X) or should I go?” Three causes of journalistic self-censorship on x. In J. Steel, & J. Petley (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429262067

Twitter is widely considered to be an integral part of journalists’ everyday routines. Its immediacy and instantaneity as well as the networking possibilities the platform affords has benefitted journalism in various ways, particularly with regards t... Read More about "Should I stay (on X) or should I go?” Three causes of journalistic self-censorship on x.

The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files (2023)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2023). The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files. In J. Fenwick, & D. A. Rodgers (Eds.), The Legacy of The X-Files (135-147). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines how The X-Files offered a revisionist historical perspective of the political upheaval the United States experienced through the 1960s and 1970s. It shows how in its relentless questioning of the official record on the assassina... Read More about The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files.

Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’ (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’. In Routledge Encyclopaedia in Chinese Studies. Routledge

This article examines queer cinema in Mainland China in the post-Mao era. It traces a brief trajectory of its development from the emergence of queer characters on the cinematic screen from the 1990s to the proliferation of Boys’ Love representations... Read More about Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’.

Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Cui, Z. (2023). Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en. In U. Böckler, J. Lazarus, & A. Weltz-Rombach (Eds.), Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil (223-227). K. Verlag

Cui Zi’en (b. 1958 in Harbin, China) is one of the best-known queer filmmakers, writers and activists in the Chinese-speaking world. He was the first ‘out’ gay public persona in post-Mao China, coming out on state television in 2000. He has made abou... Read More about Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en.

Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction. In Routledge Encyclopaedia in Chinese Studies

This article examines queer literature in Mainland China from classical texts to contemporary Internet literature and fan fiction. Queer literature is broadly defined here as literary texts depicting non-heteronormative genders, sexualities and desir... Read More about Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction.

Queer Art as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Queer Art as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China. In Rethinking the Curation/Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art. Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter discusses some of the ways in which queer art is displayed in contemporary China, where the public expression and circulation of queerness is prohibited. The government ban on queer content does not mean that queer art does not exist in... Read More about Queer Art as Masquerading: Displaying Queer Art in Contemporary China.

Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies (2023)
Book Chapter
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. (in press). Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

This introduction to the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality provides an overview of the edited volume. In this chapter, the co-editors of the Handbook discuss the book’s disciplinary interventions and scholarly contribution, as well a... Read More about Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies.

When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China. In J. J. Zhao, & H. Bao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality. Routledge

Tracing a brief genealogy of the emergence of queer theory in Mainland China, this chapter identifies three key historical moments when queer theory travelled to the People’s Republic of China at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of... Read More about When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China.

Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location (2023)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2023). Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location. In E. Evans, & M. Guha (Eds.), London as Screen Gateway. London: Routledge

In April 2012, the BBC relocated a portion of its television production from London’s Television Centre, its home since 1960, to MediaCity in Salford, just outside Manchester. In March 2018, Channel 4 announced similar plans to move its headquarters... Read More about Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location.

The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart (2023)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2024). The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart. In London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

The British Film Institute (BFI) has been a central institution within both the British film industry and London as a media city for nearly 100 years. In this interview, Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart discuss the BFI’s relationship with... Read More about The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart.

Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2023). Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space. In H. Bao, D. Mergenthaler, & J. J. Zhao (Eds.), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art. Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines the Imagining Queer Bandung project, a series of media and art events that took place in Berlin from June to August 2021. It sees the project as a good example of the queer people of colour’s transnational solidarity and decolon... Read More about Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space.

What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art? (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., Mergenthaler, D., & Zhao, J. J. (2023). What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art?. In H. Bao, D. Mergenthaler, & J. J. Zhao (Eds.), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art. Bloomsbury Publishing

In this introductory chapter, we first explain the keywords crucial to our analysis, theorization and discussion, including queerness, Chineseness and contemporary art. We then move on to a brief overview of the key chapters and themes in the book, w... Read More about What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art?.

Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI (2023)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2023). Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Posthumanism, with its visions of disembodied technological transcendence, has tended to dismiss psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on bodily drives and unconscious fantasies, as part of the outmoded Humanist framework posthumanism criticises. This co... Read More about Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI.

Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event (2023)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2023). Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis (267-278). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Alain Badiou, one of the most psychoanalytically informed philosophers writing today, has called Jacques Lacan his “master” yet he also deems him to be an “anti-philosopher”. This chapter will do two things with this tension. Firstly, it will explore... Read More about Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event.

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (2022)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2022). Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. In The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies (1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_34-1

Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant, Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been deeply influential on – and indeed c... Read More about Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.