Please use the Department links below to find a specific member of staff in Cultures, Languages and Area Studies. I have directed and curated film programmes for the Nottingham Chinese Independent Film Festival in collaboration with the Broadway Cinema Nottingham and various other film screening events and research workshops.
A documentary about the Drag Up! As a translator, I translate between Chinese and English. I am interested in mediated cultural politics in a transnational context, including but not limited to gay identity and queer activism, community culture and citizen media, as well as independent films and film festivals.
My research is primarily concerned with how media relate to issues of gender, sexuality and identity, and how they participate in community building, empowerment of minority groups, and grassroots mobilisation. It also considers how media and contemporary culture respond to a postsocialist world dominated by neoliberal ideologies, and how socialist and democratic forms of community cultures and social forms are lived and experienced in everyday lives and social movements.
Women and Contemporary Chinese Art ;. Contemporary Chinese Girlhood Film ;. History of the China Film Group Corporation. My transdisciplinary research focuses on queer culture in contemporary China: from community media to cinema,β¦ read more.
My transdisciplinary research focuses on queer culture in contemporary China: from community media to cinema, from literature to contemporary art, from theatre to musical cultures, and from cultural history to political theory. Bringing together diverse research methods and innovative approaches in humanities and social sciences, my research hopes to de-Westernise queer studies and cultural studies, and bring Marxism and queer theory into critical dialogues with each other.
