[Air-L] Global Media and China Webinar: Queer Media in China

[Xiao Han]

Dear All, 

The SAGE journal Global Media and China, sponsored by the Communication University of China, is pleased to announce the next webinar will take place on ZOOM: 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99027324248?pwd=OTVOL3JEVUlwUmlvV3ljaHZqZzJzZz09 <https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99027324248?pwd=OTVOL3JEVUlwUmlvV3ljaHZqZzJzZz09>

Meeting ID: 990 2732 4248
Passcode: 292326

Time:
August 5, 19:00-20:00 (Beijing/HK Time)
August 5, 12:00pm-13:15 (UK)

WELCOME

Professor Anthony Fung，The Chinese University of Hong Kong



SPEAKER

Dr Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he also directs the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. His research primarily focuses on queer media and culture in contemporary China. 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) and Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021).


ABSTRACT

This talk charts a brief history of queer community media in contemporary China. The past thirty years has witnessed the formation of minority sexual identities and communities in urban China; it has also seen a proliferation of media forms and texts produced and consumed by LGBTQ people. These media forms consist of leaflets, zines, pagers, websites and dating apps. These media practices include oral history documentaries, internet radio and webcasts, film and cultural festivals, and DIY video-making workshops. What do these media forms and practices tell us about queer identities, communities and cultures? What insights can we gain from them about identity, rights and social change in contemporary China? How can Chinese media and communication studies as a scholarly field go beyond the ‘mass media and communication’ paradigm to attend to the communitarian, alternative and activist forms of media? This talk draws on the author’s new book Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021) to highlight the pivotal role of community media in queer identity formation, community building and the articulation of a ‘minor’ China.