Jamie J. Zhao - Böcker

This Handbook offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical, modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities.Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China’s modernisation and globalisation, this Handbook effectively situates Chinese gender and sexuality in transnational and transcultural contexts. It also spotlights nonnormative practices and emancipatory potentials within mainstream, heterosexual-dominated and patriarchally structured settings. It serves as a definitive study, research and resource guide for emerging gender and sexuality issues in the Chinese-speaking world. This Handbook covers interdisciplinary methodologies, perspectives and topics, including:HistoryLiteratureArtFashionMigrationTranslationSex and desireFilm and televisionDigital mediaStar and fan culturesFantasies and lives of women and LGBTQ+ groupsSocial movementsTransnational feminist and queer politicsPaying acute attention to nonnormative genders and sexualities and emphasising the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity and class, this Handbook offers an essential, field-defining text to Chinese gender and sexuality studies.

Queer Women’s Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires brings together new research that rethinks what queer women’s fandoms are and why they matter now.Fan communities where homoeroticism is created by, for, or about women have flourished across streaming platforms, social media, and transnational pop culture. Yet these cultures are still often treated as marginal—or explained through narrow frames that reduce them to national contexts, fixed identities, or supposedly “derivative” forms of fandom. Moving beyond restrictive definitions of both ‘queer’ and ‘female fandom,’ the volume offers an innovative framework for understanding fan cultures shaped by globalization, platformized digital life, and shifting LGBTQ+ politics. Drawing on digital media studies, television studies, celebrity and fan studies, visual and sound studies, lesbian and feminist scholarship, queer theory, and globalization studies, contributors trace how images, personas, desires, identities, and subjectivities are produced, negotiated, and contested in and through fandom. Case studies range across television, trans and queer celebrities, K-pop idols, platform influencers, anime productions, and gossip networks. Clear, ambitious, and globally attuned, this collection highlights the complexity of queer women’s fandoms today, laying theoretical and analytical grounds for future research.The book will be an important resource for researchers of gender, media and culture, as well as celebrity and fan studies and digital humanities. It was originally published as a special issue of Popular Communication.

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 15 internationally renowned artists, activists, curators and scholars to explore heterogeneous expressions of Chineseness and queerness in contemporary art from China and Chinese diasporas in Asia, Europe and North America.Examining contemporary visual art, performance and activism, this book offers a rich archive of queer Chinese artistic expressions. It provides valuable insights into the status quo and intersectional struggles of Chinese artists who identify themselves as queer and who have associated their work with queer positionalities and perspectives. By sharing personal experiences, art expressions and critical insights about what it means to be queer and Chinese in a transnational context, the book reveals multiple forms and potentialities of queer politics in the domains of art and activism.

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 15 internationally renowned artists, activists, curators and scholars to explore heterogeneous expressions of Chineseness and queerness in contemporary art from China and Chinese diasporas in Asia, Europe and North America.Examining contemporary visual art, performance and activism, this book offers a rich archive of queer Chinese artistic expressions. It provides valuable insights into the status quo and intersectional struggles of Chinese artists who identify themselves as queer and who have associated their work with queer positionalities and perspectives. By sharing personal experiences, art expressions and critical insights about what it means to be queer and Chinese in a transnational context, the book reveals multiple forms and potentialities of queer politics in the domains of art and activism.

Examines the central role of affect and gender in shaping personality, community, nationhood and political discourse in contemporary China. Drawing on (auto)ethnography, interviews, films, podcasts, and cultural and artistic productions from the 2000s to 2025, this book demonstrates how authoritarian rule is sustained through complex affective mechanisms, while also tracing the subtle, everyday forms of affective resistance that emerge within and against these structures.Proposing ‘structures of affect’ as its analytical framework, the study investigates how the formative experiences of China’s ruling elites cultivated an enduring ‘affective attachment’ to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a process that reinforces authoritarian legitimacy. At the same time, it reveals how latent hierarchy, gendered violence and forms of ‘affective antagonism’ within activist communities have reproduced the very sexism and authoritarian practices that their activism seeks to oppose. Through this examination, the book highlights the practices of affective negotiation at the grassroots level, including Sinophone-Tibetan feminist podcasting, the ‘affective queering’ of community-making, self-making and solidarity among the younger generation, and the ‘affective suffering’ captured in cinematic responses to the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s COVID-19 governance.Ultimately, this book offers a nuanced account of political culture as lived, embodied and emotionally mediated practice. It concludes by advocating a feminist ethics of care and envisioning alternative modes of living and political engagement in repressive contexts, grounded in a transformative affective ethos.