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Queering the Asian Diaspora (2024)
Book
Bao, H. (in press). 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.

Rethinking Transmedia Audiences (2024)
Book Chapter
EVANS, E. (in press). Rethinking Transmedia Audiences. In The Routledge Handbook of Audience Studies. Routledge

Transmediality has become a key way for understanding the changes in how audiences experience media that have emerged as a result of technological change. However, the vast, complex storyworlds embedded in the idea of “transmedia storytelling” have n... Read More about Rethinking Transmedia Audiences.

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

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

Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century (2024)
Journal Article
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.

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.

Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse (2024)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2024). Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse. Heritage, 7(2), 537-575. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7020026

Radical left culture and heritage—understood as incarnations of leftist artefacts and praxis both past and present—have taken risks in challenging hegemonic machinations often when it is unpopular to do so. To the ire of hegemons, leftist projects ac... Read More about Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse.

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.

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.

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.

Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics (2023)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2023). Digital video activism: Fan Popo’s queer Asian diasporic politics. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 17(1), 10-23. 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.

"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.

Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Hammer Goes to Hell: The Unmade Films of the House of Horror (2023)
Book
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.

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.