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 LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) people in China in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Dr Hongwei Bao is an 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 also a research associate of the Birmingham School of Art.

Introduction Part I. Contextualising queer community media - Queer community media in China: an archaeology - The 'queer generation': documentary filmmaking as social activism Part II. Documenting queer history - 'Documenting comrades': building a queer community archive - 'We are here': the politics of memory in queer feminist history Part III. Queer screen activism - Toward depathologisation: Queer Comrades and community health activism - Queer as catachresis: the 'guerrilla years' of the Beijing Queer Film Festival Part IV. Queering international development - 'The lucky one': the 'pleasure principle' in participatory communication - The queer global south: minor transnationalism between China and Africa Conclusion