Queering the Asian Diaspora - East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics

List of contents

Chapter 1 - Visualising the Rabbit God: Reclaiming Queer Asian Heritage
Chapter 2 - Decolonising Drag: When Queer Asian Artists Do Drag
Chapter 3 - Queering Chinoiserie: Performing Orientalist Intimacy
Chapter 4 - 'Secret Love': Curating Queerness and Queering Curation
Chapter 5 - Digital Video Activism: Popo Fan¿s Cinema of Desire
Chapter 6 - Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Decolonial Queer Space

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Hongwei Bao, Bao Hongwei
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.12.2024
• EAN: 9781529619683
• ISBN: 978-1-5296-1968-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Social Science for Social Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Migration, immigration and emigration, Sociology & anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Coloring Books, Social discrimination and social justice, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Social groups, communities and identities, Relating to people of the East Asian diasporas / heritage