[Commlist] New book: anthology Queer TV China

We are delighted to announce the publication of our new anthology /Queer 
TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and 
Chineseness /(Hong Kong University Press, 2023).

The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television 
featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and 
explicitly homoerotic storylines even as state regulations on “vulgar” 
and “immoral” content grow more prominent. This emerging “queer TV 
China” culture has generated diverse, cyber, and transcultural queer fan 
communities. Yet these seemingly progressive televisual productions and 
practices are caught between multilayered sociocultural and 
political-economic forces and interests.


Taking “queer” as a verb, an adjective, and a noun, this volume counters 
the Western-centric conception of homosexuality as the only way to 
understand nonnormative identities and same-sex desire in the Chinese 
and Sinophone worlds. It proposes an analytical framework of “queer/ing 
TV China” to explore the power of various TV genres and narratives, 
censorial practices, and fandoms in queer desire-voicing and subject 
formation within a largely heteropatriarchal society. Through examining 
nine cases contesting the ideals of gender, sexuality, Chineseness, and 
TV production and consumption, the book also reveals the generative, 
negotiative ways in which queerness works productively within and 
against mainstream, seemingly heterosexual-oriented, televisual 
industries and fan spaces.

Edited byJamie J. Zhao, assistant professor in media and cultural 
studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.


Contributors:

Aobo Dong, Emory University, USA

Jia Guo, University of Sydney, Australia

Wangtaolue Guo, University of Alberta, Canada

Linshan Jiang, Duke University, USA

Shaojun Kong, University of Sydney, Australia

Jun Lei, Texas A&M University, USA

Pang Ka Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jennifer Quist, University of Alberta, Canada

Alvin K. Wong, University of Hong Kong

Oscar Tianyang Zhou, Kent, UK



**The book is available for purchase on the Hong Kong University Press 
(HKUP) website <https://hkupress.hku.hk/>.*25% DISCOUNT(using the code 
*25CP2023)*AVAILABLE UNTIL *March 26,* 202**3. The E-book is available 
on *Amazon Kindle 
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Google Play Store 
<https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=YgevEAAAQBAJ> and 
Rakuten kobo <https://www.kobo.com/hk/zh/ebook/queer-tv-china>.Further 
information can also be found in the attached flyer and via the link: 
New Book - Queer TV China 
<https://myemail.constantcontact.com/New-Book---Queer-TV-China-Televisual-and-Fannish-Imaginaries-of-Gender--Sexuality--and-Chineseness.html?soid=1125977557309&aid=dLp4pQ2rdDA>. 
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**Endorsements:

“This cornucopia of fresh and original essays opens our eyes to the 
burgeoning queer television culture thriving beneath official media 
crackdowns in China. As diverse as the phenomenon it analyses, /Queer TV 
China/ is the spark that will ignite a prairie fire of future scholarship.”

—Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College London

“This timely volume explores the various possibilities and nuances of 
queerness in Chinese TV and fannish culture. Challenging the dichotomy 
of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ representations of gender and sexual 
minorities, /Queer TV China/ argues for a multilayered and 
queer-informed understanding of the production, consumption, censorship, 
and recreation of Chinese television today.”

—Geng Song, Associate Professor and Director of Translation Program, 
University of Hong Kong



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