Hongwei Bao is Professor in Chinese Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Queer Comrades (NIAS Press, 2018), Queer China (Routledge, 2020), Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021), Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022), and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage, 2024). He co-edited Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2024), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (Bloomsbury, 2024), and Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (Routledge, 2025). He co-edits, with Jamie J. Zhao, the Bloomsbury ‘Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities’ book series.