Dear Colleagues,
*With apologies for cross-posting.*
We are delighted to announce the publication of our new anthology *Queer TV
China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and
Chineseness *(Hong Kong University Press, 2023).
The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television
featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and explicitly
homoerotic storylines even as state regulations on “vulgar” and “immoral”
content grow more prominent. This emerging “queer TV China” culture has
generated diverse, cyber, and transcultural queer fan communities. Yet
these seemingly progressive televisual productions and practices are caught
between multilayered sociocultural and political-economic forces and
interests.
Taking “queer” as a verb, an adjective, and a noun, this volume counters
the Western-centric conception of homosexuality as the only way to
understand nonnormative identities and same-sex desire in the Chinese and
Sinophone worlds. It proposes an analytical framework of “queer/ing TV
China” to explore the power of various TV genres and narratives, censorial
practices, and fandoms in queer desire-voicing and subject formation within
a largely heteropatriarchal society. Through examining nine cases
contesting the ideals of gender, sexuality, Chineseness, and TV production
and consumption, the book also reveals the generative, negotiative ways in
which queerness works productively within and against mainstream, seemingly
heterosexual-oriented, televisual industries and fan spaces.
Edited by Jamie J. Zhao, assistant professor in media and cultural studies
in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.
Contributors:
Aobo Dong, Emory University, USA
Jia Guo, University of Sydney, Australia
Wangtaolue Guo, University of Alberta, Canada
Linshan Jiang, Duke University, USA
Shaojun Kong, University of Sydney, Australia
Jun Lei, Texas A&M University, USA
Pang Ka Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jennifer Quist, University of Alberta, Canada
Alvin K. Wong, University of Hong Kong
Oscar Tianyang Zhou, Kent, UK
The book is available for purchase on the Hong Kong University Press (HKUP)
website <https://hkupress.hku.hk/>. *25% DISCOUNT (using the code
*25CP2023)* AVAILABLE
UNTIL *March 26,* 202**3. The E-book is available on *Amazon Kindle
<https://www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/Jamie-J-Zhao-ebook/dp/B0BWZ25YFN/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16NXYVLA1HUOE&keywords=9789888805617&qid=1677752439&s=books&sprefix=9789888805617%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C232&sr=1-1>
, Google Play Store
<https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=YgevEAAAQBAJ> and Rakuten
kobo <https://www.kobo.com/hk/zh/ebook/queer-tv-china>. Further information
can also be found in the attached flyer and via the link: New Book - Queer
TV China
<https://myemail.constantcontact.com/New-Book---Queer-TV-China-Televisual-and-Fannish-Imaginaries-of-Gender--Sexuality--and-Chineseness.html?soid=1125977557309&aid=dLp4pQ2rdDA>
.
Endorsements:
“This cornucopia of fresh and original essays opens our eyes to the
burgeoning queer television culture thriving beneath official media
crackdowns in China. As diverse as the phenomenon it analyses, *Queer TV
China* is the spark that will ignite a prairie fire of future scholarship.”
—Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College London
“This timely volume explores the various possibilities and nuances of
queerness in Chinese TV and fannish culture. Challenging the dichotomy of
‘positive’ and ‘negative’ representations of gender and sexual
minorities, *Queer
TV China* argues for a multilayered and queer-informed understanding of the
production, consumption, censorship, and recreation of Chinese television
today.”
—Geng Song, Associate Professor and Director of Translation Program,
University of Hong Kong
All the best,
Jamie
*Dr. Jing (Jamie) Zhao 赵婧博士 *
*Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies *
*School of Creative Media*
*City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR*
*PhD in Film and TV Studies, The University of Warwick, UK*
*PhD in Gender Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR*
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