H Bao
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 17441 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H Bao |
| NOMBRES | H |
| APELLIDO | Bao |
| FIRMA | BAO H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1905-7926 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Queer Manifestos
Performing the Rabbit God
On Being Queer and Underclass
Asian Studies
Imagining a Transnational Chinese Queer Literary Studies
This conversation is conducted between Dr Maria Elena Indelicato (MEI), book review editor of Journal of Intercultural Studies, and the two co-editors of the book Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). In the conversation, co-editors Dr Hongwei Bao (HB) and Dr Yahia Zhengtang Ma (YZM) introduce the historical, social and scholarly contexts of the book, lay out the book’s key topics, themes and theoretical concerns, elucid…
Welcome to Destination
The wedding complex
Through public, intentional and interventionist displays of the queer body, queer Chinese artists have used performance art for identity expression, community building and social activism. This article focuses on some of these queer performance artworks, those that engage with the theme of weddings; that is, performance artworks that draw on and critique the social conventions of wedding ceremonies. Focusing on five case studies – the lesbian art…
Digital video activism
This article examines queer Chinese filmmaker Fan Popo’s fiction films and curatorial practices since he moved from Beijing to Berlin in 2017. It focuses on how Fan’s subject position as queer Asian diaspora impacts on his filmmaking, identity and politics. In doing so, this article offers a critical insight into how people in the queer Asian diaspora use digital media and films to articulate their identity and politics. It also delineates the co…
In Queer Memory
This article examines the digital and cinematic mediation of queer memory in four independent Chinese documentaries: Queer China, “Comrade” China (dir. Cui Zi’en 2008), Our Story (dir. Yang Yang, 2011), We Are Here (dir. Shi Tou and Jing Zhao, 2016) and Shanghai Queer (dir. Chen Xiangqi, 2019). All these films have been made by queer identified filmmakers and have used the digital video documentary format as an activist strategy; all have strived…
Queer screens with Chinese characteristics
This introductory essay briefly reviews existing academic understandings and sociocultural imbrications of queer representations of and research on contemporary Chinese-language media and culture. We propose to conceptualize ‘queer Chinese screen studies’ as a critical field of inquiry to interrogate the limitations of identity-politics-based and media-text-focused Chinese cinema studies and queer cinema studies. We emphasize the proliferated for…
Sissy capital' and the governance of non-normative genders in China's platform economy
This article examines Chinese government censorship in the intersection between queer and fan cultures and the government's regulation of big tech companies and platform economies in the 2020s conjuncture. In the context of booming platform industries and proliferating queer representations, the government issued explicit directives to censor the representation of 'sissy men', or androgynous and effeminate male celebrities, on video streaming pla…
The new generation
This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art focuses on the social significance and political relevance of diaspora Chinese art in the contemporary era. Although artists and authors may hold different stances towards Chinese and diaspora identities, their works and discussions showcase the importance of identity and identity-inflected art in contemporary times; they also demonstrate the productivity of treating Chinese diaspora art a…
Curating queerness and queering curation
This article examines the curatorial strategies of the Secret Love exhibition, the biggest queer Chinese art exhibition outside Asia to date. The exhibition brought together 150 works created by 27 queer Chinese artists. It first took place at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (MFEA) in Stockholm, Sweden, from 21 September 2012 to 31 March 2013, and subsequently toured to other museums in Europe. The exhibition raises the critical question of…
Relocations of the households affected by the development of the New Yogyakarta International Airport, Indonesia
Land acquisition for infrastructure development in Indonesia, including Yogyakarta International Airport, has adopted a new principle of profitable compensation. Two options were created: voluntary self-relocation and government-assisted relocation. People whose farms were only partially appropriated by the project did not need to join the relocation. This paper compares problems faced by the three groups and their livelihood prospects, especiall…
Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema
This article examines the history of representing transgender people in independent films produced in mainland China from the 1990s to present. Tracing a brief history of the transgender representation on Chinese screen, this article illustrates the multiplicity and porousness of transgender cinematic representations in postsocialist China. It identifies five ways of representing trans people on Chinese screen, roughly corresponding to five histo…
Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity
This article focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the newly emerged pan-Asian political identity following the recent transnational ‘Stop Asian Hate’ movement. Using the recent ‘Stop Asian Hate’ Birmingham rally as a case study, this article contends that the pan-Asian identity enacted in the ‘Stop Asian Hate’ movement has the potential to forge new forms of racial and ethnic solidarities
Queer Media in China
This book 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 sh…
Sharing food, vulnerability and intimacy in a global pandemic
This article examines the digital artworks created by three Chinese diaspora artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo’s short digital video Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (‘Learn German in my kitchen’), London-based performance artist Zeng Burong’s performance Non-Taster and London-based writer David K. S. Tse’s digital radio play The C Word . All three artworks were created in 2020 during the pandemic and all deal explicitly…
Queer Disidentification
In an online research seminar titled ‘Intimacies in Asia in a Time of Pandemics’ (GCS Sydney 2020), Hans Tao-Ming Huang, a queer studies scholar from National Central University, Taiwan, compares the geopolitics in the current COVID-19 pandemic to a ‘new Cold War’. This war is characterised by an intense political and ideological antagonism between communist China and the liberal, democratic world led by the United States. In this antagonism, nat…
The queer Global South
In this article, I examine grassroots cinematic connections between China and Africa by using Queer University, short for the Queer University Video Capacity Building Training Program, a 3-year (2017–2019) participatory video production program between Chinese and African queer filmmakers and activists, as a case study. Through interviews with Queer University organizers and participants, I discuss the transnational politics and decolonial potent…
Queer China
This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these diverse cultural forms and practices not only function as context-specific and culturally sensitive forms of social activism but also produce distinct types of gender and sexual subjectivities unique t…
Queering international development
This article focuses on the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in the 2011 documentary The Lucky One (宠儿), jointly made by Chinese filmmaker and queer activist He Xiaopei and Zhang Xi, a woman living with HIV/AIDS. The film was made using a participatory approach as Zhang took up the video camera to document her own life. By situating the film in the global development industry and focusing on the political economy of the filmmaking process, this …
We Are Here’
This article examines the politics of narrating feminist and queer histories in contemporary China. Focusing on Zhao Jing and Shi Tou’s 2015 film, We Are Here, a documentary made to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, I examine how the film represents queer women’s history in China and in what discourses such a representation is situated. Icontend that the processes of remembrance and forget…
Queer eye for Chinese women
This article offers a critical analysis of Chinese lesbian artist, filmmaker and activist Shitou’s 2006 film Women Fifty Minutes (nüren wushi fenzhong). Focusing on the representation of queer women in the film, I discern the existence and conditions of queer subjectivities and spaces in a postsocialist Chinese context. This article aims to disentangle different discourses of women and feminism in contemporary China as represented in the film and…
Love Your Films and Love Your Life”
Invited by the Institute for Screen Industries Research, the University of Nottingham, Chinese queer filmmaker and activist Fan Popo visited Nottingham in February 2018 for a series of events titled “‘Queer Cinema as Art, Activism and Industry’,” including research workshops, student seminars, and film screenings. Dr Bao Hongwei, Assistant Professor in Media Studies, interviewed Fan about the latter’s filmmaking career and his participation in tr…
I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”
Despite decriminalisation in 1997 and partial depathologisation in 2001, homosexuality remains a sensitive topic in contemporary China. This is reflected in mainstream and online media where representation of LGBTQ-related issues are often subject to heavy censorship. However, despite the austere restrictions that exist, the past two decades have witnessed the emergence of 'new queer Chinese cinema' (Leung 2012; Yue 2012; Pecic 2016; Bao 2018). L…
Sissy capital' and the governance of non-normative genders in China's platform economy
This article examines Chinese government censorship in the intersection between queer and fan cultures and the government's regulation of big tech companies and platform economies in the 2020s conjuncture. In the context of booming platform industries and proliferating queer representations, the government issued explicit directives to censor the representation of 'sissy men', or androgynous and effeminate male celebrities, on video streaming pla…
Queering/Querying Cosmopolitanism
This article examines different types of queer spaces in contemporary Shanghai together with the various same-sex subjects that inhabit these spaces. In doing so, it discusses the impact of transnational capitalism, the nation state and local histories on the construction of urban spaces and identities. Combining queer studies and urban ethnography, this article points to the increasing social inequalities hidden behind the notion of urban cosmop…
We Are Here’
This article examines the politics of narrating feminist and queer histories in contemporary China. Focusing on Zhao Jing and Shi Tou’s 2015 film, We Are Here, a documentary made to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, I examine how the film represents queer women’s history in China and in what discourses such a representation is situated. Icontend that the processes of remembrance and forget…
Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema
This article examines the history of representing transgender people in independent films produced in mainland China from the 1990s to present. Tracing a brief history of the transgender representation on Chinese screen, this article illustrates the multiplicity and porousness of transgender cinematic representations in postsocialist China. It identifies five ways of representing trans people on Chinese screen, roughly corresponding to five histo…
Queering international development
This article focuses on the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in the 2011 documentary The Lucky One (宠儿), jointly made by Chinese filmmaker and queer activist He Xiaopei and Zhang Xi, a woman living with HIV/AIDS. The film was made using a participatory approach as Zhang took up the video camera to document her own life. By situating the film in the global development industry and focusing on the political economy of the filmmaking process, this …
I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”
Despite decriminalisation in 1997 and partial depathologisation in 2001, homosexuality remains a sensitive topic in contemporary China. This is reflected in mainstream and online media where representation of LGBTQ-related issues are often subject to heavy censorship. However, despite the austere restrictions that exist, the past two decades have witnessed the emergence of 'new queer Chinese cinema' (Leung 2012; Yue 2012; Pecic 2016; Bao 2018). L…
“Queer Comrades”
Research Article| March 01 2011 “Queer Comrades”: Transnational Popular Culture, Queer Sociality, and Socialist Legacy Hongwei Bao Hongwei Bao The University of Sydney [email protected] Hongwei Bao recently completed his PhD thesis, “Queer Comrades: Gay Identities and Politics in Postsocialist China”, while a student in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at The University of Sydney. He currently holds a DAAD postdoctoral resear…
On Not to be Gay
In this article, through a critical reading of the published diaries written by gay ‘patients’ who received aversion therapy in south China in the 1990s, I examine how the transformation of subjectivities from gay to straight was made possible by such ‘self-technologising’ practices as writing and communication. I also consider the centrality of the body and affect in the process of subject (trans)formation, and ask how a new, coherent and authen…
Queering/Querying Cosmopolitanism
This article examines different types of queer spaces in contemporary Shanghai together with the various same-sex subjects that inhabit these spaces. In doing so, it discusses the impact of transnational capitalism, the nation state and local histories on the construction of urban spaces and identities. Combining queer studies and urban ethnography, this article points to the increasing social inequalities hidden behind the notion of urban cosmop…
On Not to be Gay
In this article, through a critical reading of the published diaries written by gay ‘patients’ who received aversion therapy in south China in the 1990s, I examine how the transformation of subjectivities from gay to straight was made possible by such ‘self-technologizing’ practices as writing and communication. I also consider the centrality of the body and affect in the process of subject (trans)formation, and ask how a new, coherent and authen…
Queerly Intimate
This article examines the rise of the Girls' Love (GL) fan fiction community in contemporary China. More specifically, we focus on the 'Pink Super Girl Bar', an online fan fiction community devoted to the pairing of the contestants of the 2006 season of Super Girl, an entertainment program featured on Hunan Satellite TV that enjoys great popularity in the Sinophone world. Through an ethnographic account of the formation, convention and performati…
A Queer ‘Comrade’ in Sydney
Using ‘auto-ethnography’ I critically analyse my experience of changing cultural and sexual identities as a result of cultural dislocation. I relate the changing attitudes towards identities to broader historical and social issues in a transnational context, including the continuing existence of colonialism and the Cold War in the postcolonial and postsocialist present, and thus conduct a critique of both nationalism and transnational elitism. By…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Leta Hong Fincher: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Zed Books Ldt, 2014Engebretsen, Elisabeth L.: Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography. New York and London: Routledge, 2014Jung Chang: Empress Dowager Cixi. The concubine who launched modern China. Alfred A. Knops. New York, 2013Nancy Fraser: Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis, Verso. London – New York. 2013
Queer as Catachresis
Hongwei Bao examines the production of queer subjects across various editions of the Beijing Queer Film Festival (BJQFF) from 2001 to now. Using the analytical framework of catachresis, Bao examines the politics of translating sexualities, film festival culture, and social movements in a transnational and cross-cultural context. Bao also considers multiple factors that shape the BJQFF today, including socialist pedagogy and the cultural exhibitio…
‘Shanghai is burning’
This article offers a critical analysis of Matthew Baren’s 2018 film Extravaganza, a documentary about drag scenes in Shanghai. By focusing on some drag performers represented in this film, in tandem with an examination of the social and industry contexts of the film, as well as my interviews with the filmmaker and performers, I problematise the gender identity of the performers and the national identity of the film. Drawing on Deleuze and Guatta…
Queer eye for Chinese women
This article offers a critical analysis of Chinese lesbian artist, filmmaker and activist Shitou’s 2006 film Women Fifty Minutes (nüren wushi fenzhong). Focusing on the representation of queer women in the film, I discern the existence and conditions of queer subjectivities and spaces in a postsocialist Chinese context. This article aims to disentangle different discourses of women and feminism in contemporary China as represented in the film and…
Love Your Films and Love Your Life”
Invited by the Institute for Screen Industries Research, the University of Nottingham, Chinese queer filmmaker and activist Fan Popo visited Nottingham in February 2018 for a series of events titled “‘Queer Cinema as Art, Activism and Industry’,” including research workshops, student seminars, and film screenings. Dr Bao Hongwei, Assistant Professor in Media Studies, interviewed Fan about the latter’s filmmaking career and his participation in tr…
I Want to Make Queer Films, But Not LGBT Films”
Despite decriminalisation in 1997 and partial depathologisation in 2001, homosexuality remains a sensitive topic in contemporary China. This is reflected in mainstream and online media where representation of LGBTQ-related issues are often subject to heavy censorship. However, despite the austere restrictions that exist, the past two decades have witnessed the emergence of 'new queer Chinese cinema' (Leung 2012; Yue 2012; Pecic 2016; Bao 2018). L…
The queer Global South
In this article, I examine grassroots cinematic connections between China and Africa by using Queer University, short for the Queer University Video Capacity Building Training Program, a 3-year (2017–2019) participatory video production program between Chinese and African queer filmmakers and activists, as a case study. Through interviews with Queer University organizers and participants, I discuss the transnational politics and decolonial potent…
Queer China
This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these diverse cultural forms and practices not only function as context-specific and culturally sensitive forms of social activism but also produce distinct types of gender and sexual subjectivities unique t…
Queering international development
This article focuses on the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in the 2011 documentary The Lucky One (宠儿), jointly made by Chinese filmmaker and queer activist He Xiaopei and Zhang Xi, a woman living with HIV/AIDS. The film was made using a participatory approach as Zhang took up the video camera to document her own life. By situating the film in the global development industry and focusing on the political economy of the filmmaking process, this …
We Are Here’
This article examines the politics of narrating feminist and queer histories in contemporary China. Focusing on Zhao Jing and Shi Tou’s 2015 film, We Are Here, a documentary made to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, I examine how the film represents queer women’s history in China and in what discourses such a representation is situated. Icontend that the processes of remembrance and forget…
Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity
This article focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the newly emerged pan-Asian political identity following the recent transnational ‘Stop Asian Hate’ movement. Using the recent ‘Stop Asian Hate’ Birmingham rally as a case study, this article contends that the pan-Asian identity enacted in the ‘Stop Asian Hate’ movement has the potential to forge new forms of racial and ethnic solidarities
Queer Media in China
This book 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 sh…
Sharing food, vulnerability and intimacy in a global pandemic
This article examines the digital artworks created by three Chinese diaspora artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo’s short digital video Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (‘Learn German in my kitchen’), London-based performance artist Zeng Burong’s performance Non-Taster and London-based writer David K. S. Tse’s digital radio play The C Word . All three artworks were created in 2020 during the pandemic and all deal explicitly…
Queer Disidentification
In an online research seminar titled ‘Intimacies in Asia in a Time of Pandemics’ (GCS Sydney 2020), Hans Tao-Ming Huang, a queer studies scholar from National Central University, Taiwan, compares the geopolitics in the current COVID-19 pandemic to a ‘new Cold War’. This war is characterised by an intense political and ideological antagonism between communist China and the liberal, democratic world led by the United States. In this antagonism, nat…
The new generation
This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art focuses on the social significance and political relevance of diaspora Chinese art in the contemporary era. Although artists and authors may hold different stances towards Chinese and diaspora identities, their works and discussions showcase the importance of identity and identity-inflected art in contemporary times; they also demonstrate the productivity of treating Chinese diaspora art a…
Curating queerness and queering curation
This article examines the curatorial strategies of the Secret Love exhibition, the biggest queer Chinese art exhibition outside Asia to date. The exhibition brought together 150 works created by 27 queer Chinese artists. It first took place at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (MFEA) in Stockholm, Sweden, from 21 September 2012 to 31 March 2013, and subsequently toured to other museums in Europe. The exhibition raises the critical question of…
Relocations of the households affected by the development of the New Yogyakarta International Airport, Indonesia
Land acquisition for infrastructure development in Indonesia, including Yogyakarta International Airport, has adopted a new principle of profitable compensation. Two options were created: voluntary self-relocation and government-assisted relocation. People whose farms were only partially appropriated by the project did not need to join the relocation. This paper compares problems faced by the three groups and their livelihood prospects, especiall…
Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema
This article examines the history of representing transgender people in independent films produced in mainland China from the 1990s to present. Tracing a brief history of the transgender representation on Chinese screen, this article illustrates the multiplicity and porousness of transgender cinematic representations in postsocialist China. It identifies five ways of representing trans people on Chinese screen, roughly corresponding to five histo…
Welcome to Destination
Sociology (30 obras) · Gender Studies (29 obras) · Queer (26 obras) · Political science (22 obras) · Art (18 obras) · China (18 obras) · Politics (17 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (15 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Aesthetics (13 obras)