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Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics (2024)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (in press). Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2024.2312681

This article examines queer Chinese filmmaker Fan Popo's fiction films and curatorial practices since he moved from Beijing to Berlin in 2017. It focuses on how Fan's subject position as queer Asian diaspora impacts on his filmmaking, identity and po... Read More about Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics.

Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century (2024)
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Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. (in press). Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2024.2312677

This introductory essay briefly reviews existing academic understandings and sociocultural imbrications of queer representations of and research on contemporary Chinese-language media and culture. We propose to conceptualize ‘queer Chinese screen stu... Read More about Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century.

Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy (2023)
Journal Article
Pucci, L. (2023). Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy. Annali d’italianistica, 41,

This article examines picture postcards of Fascist-era sites that were mailed after the fall of the regime. Sent between the 1940s and the 1980s, the postcards carry images of both highly recognisable and less well-known examples of Fascism’s symboli... Read More about Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy.

Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan (2023)
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Sham, D. H. (2024). Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30(2), 242-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2289433

This article endeavours to advance scholarship on the relationship among festivals, cultural heritage, sustainable development, and the connection between cultural heritage and creativity. The article positions festivals as sites to negotiate creativ... Read More about Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan.

士紳化以外: 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再/創造 (2023)
Journal Article
Sham, D. H. (2023). 士紳化以外: 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再/創造. 文化研究/Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 37, 57-102. https://doi.org/10.6752/JCS.202310_%2837%29.0003

In East and Southeast Asia, culture-led urban regeneration has been criticized for bringing in cultural economy activities that have few connections, if at all, with the local contexts, and leading to gentrification of the historic districts and evic... Read More about 士紳化以外: 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再/創造.

The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism (2023)
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Bao, H. (2023). The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 10(1-2), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00075_1

Through public, intentional and interventionist displays of the queer body, queer Chinese artists have used performance art for identity expression, community building and social activism. This article focuses on some of these queer performance artwo... Read More about The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism.

In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries (2023)
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Bao, H. (2023). In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries. Panoptikum, 2023(29), 94-114. https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2023.29.06

This article examines the digital and cinematic mediation of queer memory in four independent Chinese documentaries: Queer China, "Comrade" China (dir. Cui Zi"en 2008), Our Story (dir. Yang Yang, 2011), We Are Here (dir. Shi Tou and Jing Zhao, 2016)... Read More about In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers (2023)
Journal Article
Dagoula, C., Katsirea, I., & Harrison, J. (2023). The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00109_1

This study examines the attitudes of four Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO)-regulated UK newspapers towards redressing inaccuracies in their print editions. It analyses the ways in which the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Times an... Read More about The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers.

Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals (2023)
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Benford, S., Manninen, K., Martindale, S., Hazzard, A., Avila, J. P. M., Tennent, P., …Darzentas, D. P. (2023). Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579498

Volunteering benefits recipients, volunteers, communities, and society, while digital technologies establish new opportunities for virtual volunteering. We describe how volunteers transitioned the UK's long-established Oxjam grassroots music festival... Read More about Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals.

Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945 (2023)
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Atkin, W. (2023). Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945. Dada/Surrealism, 24(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.31902

This article explores the wartime works of Gherasim Luca and the Romanian surrealists during the 1940s, and considers how surrealist discourse was idiosyncratically reconfigured around the central themes of demons and black magic. Hermetically sealed... Read More about Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945.

‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy (2023)
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Wang, S., & Bao, H. (2023). ‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy. China Information, 37(3), 342-362. https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X221147481

This article examines Chinese government censorship in the intersection between queer and fan cultures and the government’s regulation of big tech companies and platform economies in the 2020s conjuncture. In the context of booming platform industrie... Read More about ‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy.

Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe (2022)
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Bao, H. (2022). Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 9(1-2), 313-332. https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA_00069_1

This article examines the curatorial strategies of the Secret Love exhibition, the biggest queer Chinese art exhibition outside Asia to date. The exhibition brought together 150 works created by 27 queer Chinese artists. It first took place at the Mu... Read More about Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe.

The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times (2022)
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Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times. Societies, 12(5), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12050135

This article explores arts, cultural and community engagement (ACCE) in the context of enduring austerity in England. Working with a methodically crafted synthesis of theoretical perspectives drawn from (1) the critical political economy (CPE) tradit... Read More about The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times.

The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora (2022)
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Bao, H. (2022). The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 9(1-2), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00053_2

This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art focuses on the social significance and political relevance of diaspora Chinese art in the contemporary era. Although artists and authors may hold different stances towards Chinese and diaspora... Read More about The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora.

Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema (2022)
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Bao, H. (2022). Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema. Feminist Media Studies, 22(5), 1278-1281. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2077798

This article examines the history of representing transgender people in independent films produced in mainland China from the 1990s to present. Tracing a brief history of the transgender representation on Chinese screen, this article illustrates the... Read More about Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
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Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums (2022)
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Mansell, J., De Little, A., & Jamieson, A. (2022). Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums. Science Museum Group Journal, https://doi.org/10.15180/221704

This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of the AHRC-funded impact and engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum (2020–21). The project underto... Read More about Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums.

Make America Hate Again? The Politics of Vigilante Geriaction (2021)
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Frame, G. (2021). Make America Hate Again? The Politics of Vigilante Geriaction. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 49(3), 168-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1957337

The article explores the politics of the vigilante geriaction film, with specific focus on the remake of Death Wish (Eli Roth, 2018). In its construction of a nation under mortal threat from within and without, the subgenre is uncritical in its reinf... Read More about Make America Hate Again? The Politics of Vigilante Geriaction.

Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe (2021)
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Bao, H. (2021). Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 8(2-3), 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA_00041_1

This article examines the digital artworks created by three Chinese diaspora artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo’s short digital video Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (‘Learn German in my kitchen’), London-based performance a... Read More about Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe.