Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies and Asian studies.

Dr Hongwei Bao is a queer East Asian scholar, writer and poet. He works closely with queer and Asian communities in the UK and internationally to raise awareness of issues of identity, community, rights and social justice. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018), Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021) and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022). His flash fiction won the Second Prize for the Plaza Prizes for Microfiction in 2023. His poetry collections include The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press 2024) and Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (Big White Shed Press 2024).

List of figures List of abbreviations Notes on translation, transliteration, and names Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Performing queer memory - A queer way of life: Ren Hang's photography - Post socialist structures of feeling: Coming out in global queer cinema Part II. Mediating queer activism - 'Gently change the world with singing': Beijing Queer Chorus and queer audibility - Performing queer at the theatre-documentary convergence: Fan Popo's screen activism Part III. Enacting intercultural communication - Theatre of Cruelty: Performing queer desire in East Palace, West Palace - About My Parents and Their Child: Intergenerational communication in transcultural documentary theatre - Sharing food, vulnerability, and intimacy: The digital performance of the queer diaspora in a global pandemic Bibliography Index