[Commlist] new book: Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

Hongwei Bao is delighted to announce the publication of the new book 
/Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance. 
<https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Chinese-Queer-Performance/Bao/p/book/9780367500245>/ 


*About the book: *

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 the twenty first century. In doing so, Bao argues for the importance 
of performance for queer identity and community formation. This 
trailblazing work uses queer performance as an analytical lens to 
challenge heteronormative modes of social relations and hegemonic 
narratives of historiography.

It will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and 
performance studies, gender and sexuality studies and Asian studies.

*Table of Contents:*

*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

*About the author:*

Dr Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University 
of Nottingham, UK, where he directs the Centre for Contemporary East 
Asian Cultural Studies. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies 
from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of four 
research monographs on queer Chinese history and culture: /Queer 
Comrades/, /Queer China/, /Queer Media in China/ and /Contemporary 
Chinese Queer Performance/. Dr Bao is the co-editor of /Routledge 
Handbook for Chinese Gender and Sexuality/, the Bloomsbury book 
series/Queering China: Transnational; Genders and Sexualities/, and the 
de Gruyter book series /Oyster: //Feminist and Queer Approaches to Arts, 
Cultures and Genders/. He also serves on the editorial boards of 
/British Journal of Chinese Studies/, /Chinese Independent Cinema 
Observer/, /Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art/, the /Political Cinemas 
/book series (Edinburgh University Press) and the /Queer Asia/ book 
series (Hong Kong University Press). He writes and edits a column called 
‘Queer Lens’ for the Chinese Independent Film Archive.

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