Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Bao, Hongwei

Routledge（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 158 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367500276
• DDC分類 791.095109051

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of figures

List of abbreviations

Notes on translation, transliteration, and names

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Performing queer memory




A queer way of life: Ren Hang's photography



Post socialist structures of feeling: Coming out in global queer cinema
Part II. Mediating queer activism




'Gently change the world with singing': Beijing Queer Chorus and queer audibility



Performing queer at the theatre-documentary convergence: Fan Popo's screen activism
Part III. Enacting intercultural communication




Theatre of Cruelty: Performing queer desire in East Palace, West Palace



About My Parents and Their Child: Intergenerational communication in transcultural documentary theatre



Sharing food, vulnerability, and intimacy: The digital performance of the queer diaspora in a global pandemic

Bibliography

Index