Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

Hongwei Bao

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000635737
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Art & Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China.

This book documents various forms of queer performance – including music, film, theatre, and political activism – in the first two decades of the twenty first century. In doing so, Bao argues for the importance of performance for queer identity and community formation. This trailblazing work uses queer performance as an analytical lens to challenge heteronormative modes of social relations and hegemonic narratives of historiography.

It will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies and Asian studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of abbreviations
• Notes on translation, transliteration, and names
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I Performing queer memory
• Part II Mediating queer activism
• Part III Enacting intercultural communication
• Bibliography
• Index