Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367500245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

Hongwei Bao

Opis

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.

Recenzje

''Offering in-depth analyses of a wide range of queer performance in the People’s Republic of China in the post-Mao era, Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance is an excellent project of queer theatre and performance in the contemporary PRC context. This interdisciplinary research makes a prominent contribution to the existing literature on LGBTQ identities and communities through the lens of performance culture. Ranging from theatre, performance art, music, photography, and digital media to social activism, the dynamic interplay between cultural texts and practices is closely examined to unravel the pivotal role played by performance in shaping contemporary queer public culture in China and the Chinese diaspora.''  Dy Siyang Cao, Feminist Encounters　

'The thoroughly up-to-date and theoretically savvy book covers an ambitiously wide and heuristically diverse range of works, ranging from photography, narrative and documentary films, China’s music scene, theatre (with a case study of such renowned productions as East Palace, West Palace, one of the first publicly performed gay plays in China), documentary theatre, and digital performance in the diaspora during the pandemic of COVID-19 [...] Through these case studies, Hongwei Bao makes a case for the political and cultural significance of performing queer identities as well as of forming communities through such performances.' Dr Alexa Alice Joubin, Chinese Literature and Thought Today

New Books Network podcast about the book is available here

O autorze

Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK