Hongwei Bao (he/him)

Made in China Journal: Volume 10, Issue 2, 2025 <p>Across the world, questions of gender, sexuality, and intimacy have become central to struggles over belonging, citizenship, and moral order. In China, these questions have acquired a particular ur...

Read the entire Queer China issue here: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...

Queer Manifestos: Editorials from Chinese Queer Zines | Made in China Journal Since the late 1990s, even amid continuing media censorship and sporadic government crackdowns on LGBTQIA+ activism, there has been a boom in queer groups, organisations, and events in urban China. Se...

Queer zines often feature queer manifestos. What do Chinese queer manifestos look like? Read this translated and edited essay from the latest issue of @madeinchinajournal.com. Thanks also to the support of the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection. madeinchinajournal.com/2026/02/23/q...

Performing the Rabbit God | Made in China Journal This essay examines how the classical Chinese story of the Rabbit God has been reinterpreted in the global Chinese diaspora in recent years. Using the examples of Andrew Thomas Huang’s 2019 film The K...

In this essay, @queercomrades.bsky.social explores how the classical Chinese story of the Rabbit God has been reinterpreted across the global Chinese diaspora in recent years, highlighting creative reimaginings that promote an open and undogmatic vision of queer Chinese identity and heritage.

Performing the Rabbit God | Made in China Journal This essay examines how the classical Chinese story of the Rabbit God has been reinterpreted in the global Chinese diaspora in recent years. Using the examples of Andrew Thomas Huang’s 2019 film The K...

Read the article here madeinchinajournal.com/2026/02/19/p...

In this essay, I explore how the classical Chinese story of the Rabbit God has been reinterpreted across the global Chinese diaspora in recent years, highlighting creative reimaginings that promote an open and undogmatic vision of queer Chinese identity and heritage.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and…

Book info here www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-lit...

Imagining a Transnational Chinese Queer Literary Studies: A Conversation About Queer Literature in the Sinosphere This conversation is conducted between Dr Maria Elena Indelicato (MEI), book review editor of Journal of Intercultural Studies, and the two co-editors of the book Queer Literature in the Sinosphere...

Read the conversation here

“Imagining Transnational Chinese Queer Literary Studies: A Conversation on Queer Literature in the Sinosphere” with Hongwei Bao and Maria Elena Indelicato is now available open access on the Journal of Intercultural Studies website.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and…

the book info www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-lit...

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere Published in Journal of Intercultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Read the review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'this collection integrates an impressive array of theoretical frameworks, concepts, and perspectives to analyse queer literature in the Sinosphere, challenging dominant narratives in literary criticism, and further reinvigorating the study with innovative insights and approaches.’ Dr Heshen Xie

‘Queer Literature in the Sinosphere, edited by Hongwei Bao and Yahia Ma, presents a groundbreaking and timely scholarly achievement, celebrating the richness and depth of queer literature of the Sinosphere through contributions from a distinguished cohort of scholars.' Dr Heshen Xie

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and…

More info about the book (Paperback available in May): www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-lit...

‘Tracing back to Ming-Qing homoerotic literature and probing into contemporary danmei and GL fiction, this book stages a vibrant dialogue between the queer past and present, and achieves a delicate balance between the serious and the popular.' On Queer Literature in the Sinosphere

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and…

More info about the book (Paperback available in May): www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-lit...

'it brings to the fore transness, queer woman and the queer working-class, which has received inadequate attention from both the academic and the public sphere.’ Qingsheng Xiao reviews Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (Bloomsbury, 2024) for The Shanghai Literary Review

More info about the event www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/new_stu...

Looking forward to the rehearsed reading of my play Hot Pot at the Cockpit Theatre in London this weekend.

Thanks to Andy Npoet from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Poetry Podcast) for this great podcast about my new poetry collection Self-Portrait as a Banana (Poetic Edge Publishers 2025). Great conversation about poetry and more. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/h...

Thanks to @asiancha.bsky.social for publishing my essay on Pillion. chajournal.com/2026/01/10/g...

This year’s highlight: the publication of the coedited book (with Daniel Mutibwa) about media and cultural encounters between Africa and China. www.routledge.com/Entanglement...

More info about the book here: poeticedgepublishers.com/hongwei-bao/

Hear me read the book's title poem here www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkp...

Listen to my Burton Radio interview here. burtonradio.co.uk/scribes-aloud

One of my proudest moments in 2025 was to have published poetry collection ‘Self-Portrait as a Banana’. Thanks to my editor @ashleyedge.poet from @poeticedgepublishers and everyone for the support.

Queering the Asian Diaspora: uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/qu...

Self-Portrait as a Banana: poeticedgepublishers.com/hongwei-bao/

It has been my great pleasure to chat with @burtonradio @scribes_aloud about poetry, writing and life in the midlands, filled with festive joy. You can listen to the playback here: burtonradio.co.uk/scribes-aloud

My further thoughts about the film ‘Pillion’ in response to some of the recent discussions. Thanks to @asiancha.bsky.social for publishing the short piece.

[EXCLUSIVE] “Riding Together: 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 and the Radical History of Queer Cinema” by Hongwei Bao Editor’s note: We are delighted to present Hongwei Bao’s essayistic film review, which blends cultural history, theory, and critique through the lens of Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton, 2025). Th…

Read my review of the film here chajournal.blog/2025/10/20/p...