This book on queer East and Southeast Asian identity and cultural politics contains chapters on drag, performance art, fashion photography, and performance as social and political activism.

Queering the Asian Diaspora (Hongwei Bao, Sage, 2024)

ISBN: 9781529619683 (paperback, hardback, e-book)

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified global geopolitical tensions, bringing Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism into sharp focus. At the same time, a growing Asian diasporic consciousness is emerging worldwide, celebrating Asian identity and cultural heritage. Yet, in the space between anti-Asian racism and the rise of Asian advocacy, the voices of queer people have often been largely missing.

 

This book addresses that gap. Exploring a range of contemporary case studies from art, fashion, performance, film, and political activism, Bao offers a powerful intersectional cultural politics—anti-nationalist, anti-racist, decolonial, feminist, and queer—that challenges dominant narratives and amplifies marginalized voices.

 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Visualising the Rabbit God: Reclaiming Queer Asian Heritage  

Chapter 2 - Decolonising Drag: When Queer Asian Artists Do Drag  

Chapter 3 - Queering Chinoiserie: Performing Orientalist Intimacy  

Chapter 4 - ‘Secret Love’: Curating Queerness and Queering Curation  

Chapter 5 - Digital Video Activism: Popo Fan's Cinema of Desire  

Chapter 6 - Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Decolonial Queer Space

 

(Readers can get a 25% discount when they order the book from the Sage website using the discount code SSSJ25: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/queering-the-asian-diaspora/book284796)