Hongwei Bao

Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies and Asian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000635737
• Artikelnr.: 64182174

Autorenporträt

Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures

List of abbreviations

Notes on translation, transliteration, and names

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Performing queer memory

1. A queer way of life: Ren Hang's photography



2. Post socialist structures of feeling: Coming out in global queer cinema


Part II. Mediating queer activism


3. 'Gently change the world with singing': Beijing Queer Chorus and queer audibility



4. Performing queer at the theatre-documentary convergence: Fan Popo's screen activism


Part III. Enacting intercultural communication


5. Theatre of Cruelty: Performing queer desire in East Palace, West Palace



6. About My Parents and Their Child: Intergenerational communication in transcultural documentary theatre



7. Sharing food, vulnerability, and intimacy: The digital performance of the queer diaspora in a global pandemic

Bibliography

Index

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List of figures
List of abbreviations
Notes on translation, transliteration, and names
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Performing queer memory
1. A queer way of life: Ren Hang's photography
2. Post socialist structures of feeling: Coming out in global queer
cinema
Part II. Mediating queer activism
3. 'Gently change the world with singing': Beijing Queer Chorus and
queer audibility
4. Performing queer at the theatre-documentary convergence: Fan Popo's
screen activism
Part III. Enacting intercultural communication
5. Theatre of Cruelty: Performing queer desire in East Palace, West
Palace
6. About My Parents and Their Child: Intergenerational communication in
transcultural documentary theatre
7. Sharing food, vulnerability, and intimacy: The digital performance of
the queer diaspora in a global pandemic
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

''Offering in-depth analyses of a wide range of queer performance in the People's Republic of China in the post-Mao era, Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance is an excellent project of queer theatre and performance in the contemporary PRC context. This interdisciplinary research makes a prominent contribution to the existing literature on LGBTQ identities and communities through the lens of performance culture. Ranging from theatre, performance art, music, photography, and digital media to social activism, the dynamic interplay between cultural texts and practices is closely examined to unravel the pivotal role played by performance in shaping contemporary queer public culture in China and the Chinese diaspora.'' Dy Siyang Cao, Feminist Encounters

'The thoroughly up-to-date and theoretically savvy book covers an ambitiously wide and heuristically diverse range of works, ranging from photography, narrative and documentary films, China's music scene, theatre (with a case study of such renowned productions as East Palace, West Palace, one of the first publicly performed gay plays in China), documentary theatre, and digital performance in the diaspora during the pandemic of COVID-19 [...] Through these case studies, Hongwei Bao makes a case for the political and cultural significance of performing queer identities as well as of forming communities through such performances.' Dr Alexa Alice Joubin, Chinese Literature and Thought Today

'Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance splendidly stands out in its cohesive and rigorous effort to de-westernize and decolonize queerness ... As the first monograph on queer theatres and performances in PRC, this book spotlights the overlooked and marginalized materials in English and Chinese academia, opens a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and intersectional conversation, and sets a foundation for further research.' Zhen Cheng, Asian Theatre Journal

'The book provides a vivid archive of queer performance in China around the millennium with keen attention to its specific divergence from, and connection to, the West. It raises urgent questions about the relation between art and activism, aesthetics and politics, in a milieu where - unlike the liberal regime that often tolerates and works to capitalize and depoliticize protest - expression of discontent results in violent repression.' Qianxiong Yang, Theatre Research International

New Books Network podcast about the book is available here