This book examines different forms and practices of queer media, that is, the films, websites, zines and film festivals produced by, for and about LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) people in China in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
This book examines different forms and practices of queer media, that is, the films, websites, zines and film festivals produced by, for and about LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) people in China in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
Dr Hongwei Bao is a queer East Asian scholar, writer and poet. He works closely with queer and Asian communities in the UK and internationally to raise awareness of issues of identity, community, rights and social justice. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018), Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021) and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022). His flash fiction won the Second Prize for the Plaza Prizes for Microfiction in 2023. His poetry collections include The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press 2024) and Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (Big White Shed Press 2024).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Contextualising queer community media 1. Queer community media in China: an archaeology 2. The 'queer generation': documentary filmmaking as social activism Part II. Documenting queer history 3. 'Documenting comrades': building a queer community archive 4. 'We are here': the politics of memory in queer feminist history Part III. Queer screen activism 5. Toward depathologisation: Queer Comrades and community health activism 6. Queer as catachresis: the 'guerrilla years' of the Beijing Queer Film Festival Part IV. Queering international development 7. 'The lucky one': the 'pleasure principle' in participatory communication 8. The queer global south: minor transnationalism between China and Africa Conclusion
Introduction Part I. Contextualising queer community media 1. Queer community media in China: an archaeology 2. The 'queer generation': documentary filmmaking as social activism Part II. Documenting queer history 3. 'Documenting comrades': building a queer community archive 4. 'We are here': the politics of memory in queer feminist history Part III. Queer screen activism 5. Toward depathologisation: Queer Comrades and community health activism 6. Queer as catachresis: the 'guerrilla years' of the Beijing Queer Film Festival Part IV. Queering international development 7. 'The lucky one': the 'pleasure principle' in participatory communication 8. The queer global south: minor transnationalism between China and Africa Conclusion
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