[Commlist] New book: Queer Media in China

*/Queer Media in China/*

ISBN 9780367279455

Published May 31, 2021 by Routledge

254 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations

This book 
<https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Media-in-China/Bao/p/book/9780367279455> examines 
different forms and practices of queer media, that is, the films, 
websites, zines, and film festivals produced by, for, and about lesbian, 
gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in China in the 
first two decades of the twenty-first century. It traces how queer 
communities have emerged in urban China and identifies the pivotal role 
that community media have played in the process. It also explores how 
these media shape community cultures and perform the role of social and 
cultural activism in a country where queer identities have only recently 
emerged and explicit forms of social activism are under serious 
political constraints. Importantly, because queer media is ‘niche’ and 
‘narrowcasting’ rather than ‘broadcasting’ and ‘mass communication,’ the 
subject compels a rethinking of some often-taken-for-granted assumptions 
about how media relates to the state, the market, and individuals. 
Overall, the book reveals a great deal about queer communities and 
identities, queer activism, and about media and social and political 
attitudes in China.

Please visit the publisher’s website for more information about the book 
<https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Media-in-China/Bao/p/book/9780367279455> and 
the author <https://www.routledge.com/authors/i19813-hongwei-bao>,

Click ‘preview PDF’ to download the table of contents and the 
introductory chapter 
<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429340376/queer-media-china-hongwei-bao>. 


*Table of Contents *

*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*

*About the author*

Dr Hongwei Bao <https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/people/hongwei.bao> is 
Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, 
UK, where he also directs the Centre for Contemporary East Asian 
Cultural Studies. He is the author of /Queer Comrades 
<https://www.niaspress.dk/book/queer-comrades/>, Queer China 
<https://www.routledge.com/Queer-China-Lesbian-and-Gay-Literature-and-Visual-Culture-under-Postsocialism/Bao/p/book/9780367462840>/ 
and/Queer Media in China 
<https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Media-in-China/Bao/p/book/9780367279455>/.

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