Description: Previous scholarship has highlighted the geocultural traveling and mutations of queer as a powerful, generative tool in the social-political and scholarly dimensions of diverse Chinese-speaking contexts. Participants explore the potential of queer in forming disruption and alternation to normative discourses through specific case studies in contemporary Chinese-language entertainment media and pop culture.

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Presider

Jamie J. Zhao, Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool U

Speakers

Fan-Ting Cheng, National Taiwan U

E.K. Tan, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

Alvin K. Wong, U of Hong Kong

I-In Chiang, Tamkang U

Maud Lavin, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago

Jamie J. Zhao, Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool U

Charlie Yi Zhang, U of Kentucky