Hongwei Bao

Queer Media in China (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000393354
• Artikelnr.: 61479961

Autorenporträt

Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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

Rezensionen

'Bao's book is a rich addition to the still nascent subfield of queer studies concerning mainland China. Compared with previous studies, largely coming from anthropology and literary studies, the book is uniquely focused on institutional and community history. Bao's ability to document the complex relationships between grassroots organizations, NGOs, foreign embassies, and government agencies behind the scenes of queer activism in China effectively deconstructs the Cold War notions of censorship and freedom that are often uncritically applied when analyzing media practices in China. Although the book is written with non-Chinese specialists in mind, it offers a view of queer culture in China that is deeply rooted in its communities. By bridging the queer community in China and its international counterparts, the book is an extraordinary work of cultural translation.' - Dr Jiangtao Harry Gu in The Journal of Asian Studies

'This comprehensive book is one of the first scholarly works to capture the recent history, changes, and complexities of LGBTQ activism and practice-based media cultures (produced by, in, about, and for gender and sexual minority communities) in an increasingly globalized and digitized China. In a society and a scholarly world where queer Chinese women's media practices and cultures are far less valued and critically appraised than those of their male counterparts, the attention Bao pays to both traditional and digital media and public spaces, carved out by queer women filmmakers and activists of the past several decades, deserves readers' appreciation ... This important academic source in queer Chinese studies will be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on Chinese gender and sexuality studies, queer and feminist studies, global and transnational communication, and film and media cultures.' - Dr Jamie J. Zhao in The China Journal