All Outputs (72)

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?.

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.

‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy (2023)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (2022)
Book
Bao, H. (2022). Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003048541

In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. This book documents various forms of queer performance – including music, film, theatre, and political activism – in the first two decades of... Read More about Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance.

The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora (2022)
Journal Article
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.

'Unity in Desire': Imagining Queer Bandung (2022)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2022). 'Unity in Desire': Imagining Queer Bandung. Room One Thousand, 10,

This article introduces the Queer Bandung project as an exemplary site of transnational solidarity amongst queer of color and strategies of queer decolonization operating at a grassroots level outside the purview of nation states. The research proces... Read More about 'Unity in Desire': Imagining Queer Bandung.

Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema (2022)
Journal Article
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.

'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens (2022)
Working Paper
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. 'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens

In this viewpoint essay, using ‘queer/ing China’ as a heuristic, we explore ‘queerness’ and ‘Chineseness’ through an intersectional approach that is attuned to the encounters, syntheses and dissonances of local, transnational and global queer and fem... Read More about 'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens.

Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films. In Research Handbook on Political Propaganda (156-167). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906424.00018

This chapter analyses the ‘coming out’ narratives represented in two queer films from different cultural contexts: Coming Out (dir. Heiner Carow, GDR, 1989) and Lan Yu (dir. Stanley Kwan, China, 2001). Both films feature gay men’s ‘coming out’ experi... Read More about Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films.

Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe (2021)
Journal Article
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.

What Does China’s Cultural War Say About Culture? (2021)
Journal Article
BAO, H. (2021). What Does China’s Cultural War Say About Culture?. Film Quarterly,

A ‘cultural war’ is taking place in China: from the banning of effeminate young men on film and television to the censorship of boys’ love fan fiction; from the restriction of video game hours for young people to the banning of commercial tutoring fo... Read More about What Does China’s Cultural War Say About Culture?.

Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests (2021)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2021). Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests. Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.crwi5533

This article focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the newly emerged pan-Asian political identity following the recent transnational ‘Stop Asian Hate’ movement. Using the recent ‘Stop Asian Hate’ Birmingham rally as a case study, this articl... Read More about Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests.

A Queer Way of Life: Ren Hang’s Photography (2021)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2021). A Queer Way of Life: Ren Hang’s Photography. Yishu, 20(1), 67-80

This article focuses on queer representations in Ren’s artworks gathered from the private collections of his friends. In doing so, I hope to expand on the existing critique of heteronormative essentialism in contemporary art and popular culture in Ch... Read More about A Queer Way of Life: Ren Hang’s Photography.

The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child. In F. Gilardi, & C. Lam (Eds.), Transmedia in Asia and the Pacific: Industry, Practice and Transcultural Dialogues (233-258). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7857-1_11

About My Parents and Their Child is a play commissioned by Ibsen International, directed by Matthias Jochmann and performed in Beijing and Shanghai in 2016 and 2017. It was one of the first times that documentary theatre as an art form appeared in Ch... Read More about The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child.

Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China. In Sound Communities: Music, Media, and Technology in the Asia Pacific (193-209). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines the production and dissemination of musical cultures in gender and sexual minority communities for political and activist purposes in the Asia Pacific, using the Beijing Queer Chorus (BQC) as a case study. As the longest running... Read More about Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China.

Being LGB in China (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Being LGB in China. In P. Gerber (Ed.), Worldwide perspectives on lesbians, gays and bisexuals: culture, history and law. Volume 3, The global picture (119-137). Praeger Press

As the most populous country in the world, the People’s Republic of China (PRC, otherwise known as mainland China) has an estimated 40 million lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) residents. In a country where homosexuality has only recently been decrim... Read More about Being LGB in China.

“A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2021). “A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China. Translation and Interpreting Studies, 16(2), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.19069.bao

This article traces the historical moment when queer theory first arrived in mainland China in the early 2000s by comparing and contrasting two translated texts in Chinese: Wang Fengzhen’s book Guaiyi Lilun [Peculiar Theory] and Li Yinhe’s book Ku’er... Read More about “A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China.

The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa. Global Media and China, 5(3), 294-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420949985

© The Author(s) 2020. In this article, I examine grassroots cinematic connections between China and Africa by using Queer University, short for the Queer University Video Capacity Building Training Program, a 3-year (2017–2019) participatory video pr... Read More about The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa.

‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
BAO, H. (2020). ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 12(1), 53 – 63

In this short essay, I introduce the ‘Anti-Domestic Violence Little Vaccine’ campaign in China during the COVID-19. After a brief introduction of the campaign by using first-person accounts from the organiser Guo Jing, I will then sum up some of the... Read More about ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19.