糖心原创

Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies

 

 

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Hongwei Bao

Associate Professor in Media Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

I joined the Department of Culture, Media and Visual Studies (formerly Department of Culture, Film and Media), the 糖心原创, in 2013. Prior to this, I worked as Lecturer in Asian Media at Nottingham Trent University (2012-13), Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam (2011, part-time), Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Sydney (2006-10, part-time) and Lecturer in International and Intercultural Communication at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Beijing (2002-06). I was DAAD Fellow at the Free University of Berlin from 2010 to 2011, and British Academy Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College,University of London, from 2011 to 2012. I received a PhD in Gender Studies and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2011.

I am Director of Research for the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies.I am a member of the Centre for Critical Theory and Cultural Studies (CCTCS) and Institute for Screen Industry Research (ISIR) at Nottingham. I am a Research Associate of t; at Leiden University, The Netherlands; Guest Professor at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, China; and at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

I serve on the editorial boards of , , (Springer), (Westminster University Press), and and (Edinburgh University Press). I write and edit a column, , for the website. I co-edit the Bloomsbury book series on and the de Gruyter book series , , , , and . I served on the jury of the Cambridge , , Beijing Film Academy Focus Student Film Festival and Nottingham .

I am a Fellow of (FRAS) and Higher Education Academy (FHEA). I am also a Trustee of and .

I have directed and curated film programmes for the (in collaboration with the Broadway Cinema Nottingham) and various other film screening events and . I have also organised events for the 糖心原创's LGBT History Month and curated a Chinese queer film programme for the Chinese New Year events at the . I also co-organised the Transnational Radical Film Cultures conference, Roundtable and Townhall, and China and/in the Global South: Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics; :and Feminist and Queer Ecologies in Art and Media research symposium.

As part of my KE and impact work, I am the producer of the , project, D, , , and project. A documentary about the Drag Up! project can be found .

Besides being an academic, I also write poems, short stories, film/art reviews, critical essays, op-eds in both English and Chinese. As a translator, I translate between Chinese and English.

I have been interviewed by or have provided commentary on gender, sexuality and media in China for the following international media organisations: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Deutsche Welle, Intellectuals, Kyodo News, The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Protocol, Radio France International, Sky News, South China Morning Post, SupChina, Times Higher Education, Times Out, Weekendavisen, Vice, among others.

Expertise Summary

I am a media and cultural studies researcher and my current research primarily focuses on:

  1. Gender and sexuality in transnational China:
  2. East and Southeast Asian cultural production in the UK and globally;
  3. The use of arts-based, creative and participatory approach for community empowerment;
  4. Representation of marginalised identities in creative and cultural industries.

Teaching Summary

In 2025-26, I teach the following modules:

CULT1033 Ways of Seeing, Hearing and Reading (Semester 1, first year module)

CULT2011 Media Identities: Who We Are and How We Feel (semester 2, second year module)

CULT3033 & CULT4059 Gender, Sexuality and Media (semester 2, third year and MA module)

I also contribute to the Researching Media and Media module with research methodology workshops.

I supervise BA and MA dissertations as well as PhD theses.

The PhD projects that I am currently supervising include:

The Noir Aesthetics in Chinese Cinema;

Metamorphosis in Transnational Women's Writing;

Queer Ballroom Culture in Shanghai (M4C studentship)

When the Mother Tongue Travels: The Evolution of Contemporary Chinese Art on an International Platform. (M4C studentship)

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Live Streaming Digital Video Platform in China;

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Research Summary

My first monograph, Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Queer Politics in Postsocialist China, was published by the Nordic Institute of Asia Studies Press in 2018. Interviews about the book can be found… read more

Recent Publications

  • BAO, HONGWEI and MUTIBWA, DANIEL H., eds., 2025. Routledge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2025. Poetic Edge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2024. Sage. (In Press.)
  • ZHAO, JAMIE J. and BAO, HONGWEI, eds., 2024. Routledge.

Current Research

My first monograph, , was published by the Nordic Institute of Asia Studies Press in 2018. Interviews about the book can be found on , and . Queer Comrades was featured on the Vogue magazine's ' in 2022.

My second monograph, titled , was published by Routledge in 2020. Some news and event updates as well as teaching and learning resources are available on the . An interview about the book can be found on and . A review of the book can be found on , , , and .

My third monograph, , was published by Routledge in 2021. The book has been reviewed by and .

My fourth monograph, , was published by Routledge in August 2022. The book has been reviewed by .

My fifth monograph, , was published by Sage in 2025. Read an interview .

My co-edited book, with Jamie J. Zhao and Diyi Mergenthaler), was published by in July 2023. You can watch the recording of a book launch .

I am the co-editor, with Dr Jamie J. Zhao, of and the Bloomsbury book series . I have co-edited (with Yahia Ma) and (with Daniel Mutibwa), and (with Elisabeth Enbegretsen and William Shroeder).

I have also co-edited a special issue of position papers for , a special double issue on for Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and a special issue on for Journal of Chinese Cinemas.

My poetry collection and poetry pamphlet were both published in 2024, and my second collection was published in 2025.

Some of my writings on queer cinema are available on the .Some of my book and theatre reviews are available on .

My ORCID ID is

  • BAO, HONGWEI and MUTIBWA, DANIEL H., eds., 2025. Routledge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2025. Poetic Edge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2024. Sage. (In Press.)
  • ZHAO, JAMIE J. and BAO, HONGWEI, eds., 2024. Routledge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2024. Valley Press.
  • BAO, HONGWEI and MA, YAHI ZHENGTANG, eds., 2024. Bloomsbury.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2024. Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
  • ZHAO, JAMIE J. and BAO, HONGWEI, 2024. Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2024. Big White Shed Press.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, ZHAO, JAMIE J. and MERGENTHALER, DIYI, 2023. Bloomsbury.
  • WANG, SHUAISHUAI and BAO, HONGWEI, 2023. China Information. 1-21
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2023. . In: FELICIA CHAN, FRASER ELLIOTT and ANDREW WILLIS, eds., Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories Edinburgh U P. (In Press.)
  • BAO, HONGWEI and CUI' ZI'EN, 2023. . In: URSULA B?CKLER, JULIA LAZARUS and ALEXANDRA WELTZ-ROMBACH, eds., Radical Film at the Dawn of A New Society K. Verlag. 223-227 (In Press.)
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2023. Panoptikum. 29, 94–114
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2023. Available at: <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/entries/10.4324/9780367565152-RECHS49-1/queer-chinese-literature-hongwei-bao-chris-shei-kamila-hladikova?context=rrocs&refId=b4e0583f-87cc-4dbe-89fb-304c9eb8f67c>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. . In: USHA RANA and JAYANATHAN GOVENDER, eds., Exploring the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social, Cultural, Economic, and Psychological Insights and Perspectives Apple Academic Press.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. Routledge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. Positions Politics. Available at: <https://positionspolitics.org/hongwei-bao-is-a-queer-friendly-beijing-olympics-possible/?fbclid=IwAR0W9k46Mn9dRmX322ZjlGY0FwK-N7Z1JN5eADX1kjLcei_HwJs_T0TZhh8>
  • ZHAO, JAMIE J. and BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. criticalasianstudies.org Commentary Board. Available at: <https://criticalasianstudies.org/commentary/2022/4/5/notes-from-the-field-jamie-j-zhao-and-hongwei-bao-queering-china-theorizing-chinese-genders-and-sexualities-through-a-transnational-lens>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. Feminist Media Studies.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. 9(1-2), 3-17
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. Available at: <https://positionspolitics.org/poetry-in-covid-protests-2/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. Room 1000. 40-49
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2022. Journal of Contemporary Chinese. 9(3), 313–332
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. . In: GERBER, PAULA, ed., Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals: Culture, History and Law: Volume 3: The Global Picture Praeger. 119-137
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. . In: LONAN O’BRIAN and MIN ONG, eds., Sound Communities: Music, Media, and Technology in the Asia Pacific Bloomsbury. 193-209
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. . In: FILIPPO GILARDI and CELIA LAM, eds., Transmedia in Asia and the Pacific: Industry, Practice and Transcultural Dialogues Palgrave. 233-258
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Translation and Interpreting Studies.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Routledge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. 17(1-2), 85-90
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Shanghai Literary Review. 50-54
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Available at: <https://uniofnottm.padlet.org/afzhb/njuzu300bami9hvv>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. 20(1), 67-80.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. . In: GARY RAWNSLEY, YIBEN MA and KRUAKAE POTHONG, eds., The Edward Elgar Handbook of Political Propaganda Edward Edgar Publishing. 164-175
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. The Sociological Review (Online).
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Available at: <https://filmquarterly.org/2021/09/17/what-does-chinas-cultural-war-say-about-culture/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. 8(2-3), 129-145
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2021. Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. 20(2), 34-45
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. . In: LO, VIVIENNE, BERRY, CHRIS and GUO, LIPING, eds., Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities Routledge. 188-204
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. . In: LIU, JIEYU and YAMASHITA, JUNKO, eds., Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies 285-300
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. . In: DAVY, ZOWIE, SANTOS, ANA CRISTINA, BERTONE, CHIARA, THORESON, RYAN and WIERINGA, SASKIA E., eds., Sage Handbook of Global Sexualities 2. 944-968
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. . In: LATHAM, KEVIN, ed., Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society 361-375
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Routledge.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Cuntemporary. Available at: <https://cuntemporary.org/queer-chinese-art-and-performance/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. CCVA Lockdown Diary. Available at: <https://mp.weixin./s/tcm3dPY0tu41nmoW-pNY3A?fbclid=IwAR0MINWjywYcslJDKudByvAA30wltDkGCJLhG5RlZ-qgietwQpI2mhZH-so>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Feminist Media Studies. 20(4), 530-547
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. . In: STEVE PRESENCE, JACK NEWSINGER and MIKE WAYNE, eds., Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisation and Activists Routledge. 191-202
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements. 12(1), 53-63
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Words Without Borders. Available at: <https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/coronavirus-voices-from-the-pandemic-wuhan-lockdown-diary-guo-jing-hongwei>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Continuum: Media and Cultural Studies.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Available at: <https://theconversation.com/how-shanghais-lgbtq-community-came-out-for-pride-month-in-2020-141896?fbclid=IwAR1-Z7AAozlfwbO-vjGmgrZPWAUiU3UC7S96Kcqdh7dQtl5aDf4EANsqQUc>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. The China Journal. 84, 182-185
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Global Media and China. 5(3), 294-318
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Available at: <https://chajournal.blog/2020/10/17/wuhan-diaries/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2020. Available at: <https://chajournal.blog/2020/10/25/literature/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. . In: CHIANG, HOWARD, ed., Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 418-422
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. 6(1), 77-96
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Made in China Journal. 4(1), 96-105
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Available at: <https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/05/14/freddie-mercury-in-china/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Available at: <https://taiwaninsight.org/2019/06/24/queer-asia-tactics-what-can-asias-queer-communities-learn-from-taiwans-fight-for-marriage-equality/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Transnational Screens. 10(2), 1-17
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. 6(2-3), 243-263
  • FAN, POPO and BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Positions: Asia Critique. 27(4), 799-809
  • HE, XIAOPEI, KEHOE, S?AGH and BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Positions: Asia Critique. 27(4), 811-823
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2019. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. 73(Winter), 24-37
  • BAO. HONGWEI, 2019. Montage AV. 28(2), 143-162
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. NIAS Press.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. . In: HIRD, DEREK and SONG, GENG, eds., The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age Hong Kong University Press. 73-86
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. . In: WEST-PAVLOV, RUSSELL, ed., Cambridge Critical Concepts: The Global South and Literature Cambridge University Press. 185-197
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. WAGIC: Women and Gender in China. Available at: <https://www.wagic.org/blank-2/2018/01/29/Fear-of-A-Queer-China>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. JOMEC Journal: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. 12, 82-100
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. Available at: <https://taiwaninsight.org/2018/02/15/the-marriage-imagination-of-the-queer-communities-in-asia/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics. 2(1), 09
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. Available at: <https://cpianalysis.org/2018/04/27/homosexuality-social-media-activism-and-the-future-of-a-queer-china/>
  • 包宏伟, 2018. . In: HILDA R?MER CHRISTENSEN, BETTINA HAUGE and 王粲璨, eds., 《女性，性别与研究：中国和北欧视角》 上海叁联书店. 174-177
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2018. Global Media and China. 3(4), 233-255
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2017. . In: BERRY, CHRIS and ROBINSON, LUKE, eds., Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation Palgrave. 67-88
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2017. Critical Habitations. Available at: <https://criticalhabitations.wordpress.com/debate/pluralising-practices/hongwei-bao-pluralising-practices-in-a-neoliberal-knowledge-economy/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2017. Taiwan Insights. Available at: <https://taiwaninsight.org/2017/10/25/genre-industry-and-politics-of-taiwanese-language-cinema/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2017. China Policy Institute Analysis. Available at: <https://cpianalysis.org/2017/10/24/chinas-media-war-before-and-during-the-19th-party-congress/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2016. Cultural History. 5(2), 222-224
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2016. . In: LIN, XIAODONG, HAYWOOD, CHRIS and MAC AN GHAILL, MAIRTIN, eds., East Asian Men: Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire Palgrave McMillan. 107-121
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2016. Available at: <https://cpianalysis.org/2016/08/22/queer-filmmaking-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china/>
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2015. . In: ELISABETH ENGEBRETSEN, WILLIAM SCHROEDER and HONGWEI BAO, eds., Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures University of Copenhagen NIAS Press. 35-56
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2015. Women, Gender & Research. 15(1), 154-156
  • ENGEBRETSEN, ELISABETH, SCHROEDER, WILLLIAM F. and BAO, HONGWEI, eds., 2015. University of Copenhagen NIAS Press.
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2014. . In: The 7th Beijing Queer Film Festival Catalogue 126-132
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2013. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 15(1), 127-140
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2013. . In: GABRIELE J?HNERT, KARIN ALEKSANDER and MARIANNE KRISZIO, eds., Kollektivit?t nach der Subjektkritik: Geschlechtertheoretische Positionierungen Transcript Verlag. 259-282
  • BAO, H., 2012. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. 4, 97-120
  • BAO, H., 2012. Health, Culture and Society. 3(1), 133-149
  • YANG. L. and BAO, H., 2012. Cultural Studies. 26(6), 842-871
  • HONGWEI BAO, 2012. . In: SUSHILA MESQUITA, MARIA KATHERINA WIEDLACK and KATRIN LASTHOFER, eds., Import-Export-Transport: Queer THeory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion Zaglosseus. 211-228
  • BAO, H., 2011. People’s Park: the politics of naming and the right to the city. In: SCHERER, B. and BALL, M., eds., Queer Paradigms II: interrogating agendas Peter Lang. 115-132
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2011. English Language Notes. 49(1), 131-137
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2011. Kulturrisse: Zeitschrift für Radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik. 2,
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2011. Asian Studies Review. 35(1), 119-121
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2011. Kinabladet. 26-27
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2010. . In: MIKAKO IWATAKE, ed., Gender, Mobility and Citizenship in Asia University of Helsinki. 174-205
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2010. . In: MIKAKO IWATAKE, ed., New Perspectives on Japan and China 27. University of Helsinki. 129-161
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2010. . In: CHUCK STEWARD, ed., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide ABC CLIO. 355-373
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2010. Asian Studies Review. 34(4), 516-518
  • BAO, HONGWEI, 2010. . In: We Who Feel Differently: Carlos Motta Art Exhibition Catalogue Shanghai: Other Gallery. 5-20

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