Contents Acknowledgements vii About the Authors ix 1. Introduction: Queer/Tongzhi China 1 Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and William F. Schroeder 2. Queer Online Media and the Building of China’s LGBT Community 18 Stijn Deklerck and Xiaogang Wei 3. Digital Video Activism: Narrating History and Memory in Queer China, ‘Comrade’ China 35 Hongwei Bao 4. Research, Activism, and Activist Research in Tongzhi China 57 William F. Schroeder 5. Challenging Authorities and Building Community Culture: Independent Queer Film Making in China and the China Queer Film Festival Tour, 2008–2012 81 Popo Fan 6. Of Pride and Visibility: The Contingent Politics of Queer Grassroots Activism in China 89 Elisabeth L. Engebretsen 7. On The Surface: ‘T’ and Transgender Identity in Chinese Lesbian Culture 111 Ana Huang 8. Queer Texts, Gendered Imagination, and Popular Feminism in Chinese Web Literature 131 Ling Yang and Yanrui Xu 9. Queerness, Entertainment, and Politics: Queer Performance and Performativity in Chinese Pop 153 Qian Wang 10. Coming Home, Coming Out: Doing Fieldwork in an Unfamiliar Homeland 179 Lucetta Yip Lo Kam 11. Queer Organizing and HIV/AIDS Activism: An Ethnographic Study of a Local Tongzhi Organization in Chengdu 192 Wei Wei 12. Market Economy, Spatial Transformation, and Sexual Diversity: An Ethnographic Study of the Gay Community in Shenyang, North China 217 Xiaoxing Fu 13. Interview with Cui Zi’en 245 Popo Fan Index 267