Contemporary Queer Chinese Art

Hongwei Bao is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he also directs the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies. He is also a research associate of the Birmingham School of Art. Bao is the author of Queer Comrades, Queer China and Queer Media in China. Diyi Mergenthaler is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Jamie J. Zhao is Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR.

1.What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art? (Hongwei Bao, Diyi Mergenthaler and Jamie J. Zhao)

Part I Queering Forms, Materials and Traditions
2.Same-Sex Love: A ‘Frog in The Well’ Looking for A Wider Sky (Xiyadie)
3.The Art of Vulnerability: Vulnerability as a Communication Device in Kinbaku (Bohan Gandalf Li)
4.A Child Taught Me How to Paint Dingding (Wei Yimu)

Part II Feminist Interventions
5. Body Portraits (Ma Yanhong)
6.My Words to the World: Three Artwork Series (Shi Tou)
7.From Feminist Artmaking to Queer Image Writing (Li Xinmo)
8.Radical Art or Radical Activism?: My Queer and Feminist Campaigns (Wei Tingting)

Part III Feminist, Queer and Trans Curation
9.Women’s Arts Festival: Feminist Curating in Contemporary China (Jiete Li and Claire Ping)
10.Secret Love: Visualizing Identity, Sexuality and Norms in Chinese Art (Si Han)
11.After Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now? (Brian Curtin)
12.Between Fringe and Canon: The Trans-Motifs of Fen-Ma Liuming (Diyi Mergenthaler)

Part IV Transnational and Diaspora Queer Art
13.Too Much and Not Yet Enough: Burong Zeng’s Theatre and Live Art Works (Burong Zeng)
14.The Mouth Wide Opens and Shuts: Queer Foodism and Identity (Popo Fan)
15.Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space (Hongwei Bao)

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