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.
Author(s): Hongwei Bao
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 169
City: London
Cover
Half Title
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
1. A queer way of life: Ren Hang’s photography
2. Postsocialist structures of feeling: Coming out in global queer cinema
Part II: Mediating queer activism
3. ‘Gently change the world with singing’: Beijing Queer Chorus and queer audibility
4. Performing queer at the theatre–documentary convergence: Fan Popo’s screen activism
Part III: Enacting intercultural communication
5. Theatre of cruelty: Performing queer desire in East Palace, West Palace
6. About My Parents and Their Child: Intergenerational communication in transcultural documentary theatre
7. Sharing food, vulnerability and intimacy: The digital performance of the queer diaspora in a global pandemic
Bibliography
Index
