Hongwei Bao is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research primarily focuses on queer cultures in contemporary China. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018) and Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020)