Description: Situated at the intersections of queer studies, diaspora studies and Asian Studies, this book articulates an intersectional cultural politics that is anti-racist, decolonial, anti-nationalist, feminist and queer.
Brief description:
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).
Review Quotes:
'Hongwei Bao rejects both the cultural essentialism that often underpins mainstream Asian politics and the narrow identitarian frameworks of Western queer discourse. By bringing diasporic Asia into critical dialogue with queer theory, his argument disrupts normative assumptions about belonging, intimacy, and political solidarity.
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This book thus strives to problematise the notion of 'Asian diaspora' itself, unsettling familiar narratives and opening conceptual space for alternative imaginings of 'Asianness' and queerness more attuned to fluidity, contradiction, and transformation.'
--Dr Fang Tang (10/3/2025 12:00:00 AM)