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About Qing Shen
Qing Shen received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Uppsala University, Sweden. His doctoral thesis titled "Queer Fun in Shanghai: the social lives of elderly working-class Chinese men" explores the linkage between play and queerness.NBN Episodes hosted by Qing:
October 24, 2025
Global Ideas, Local Adaptations
Exploring the boundaries, fringes, and inner workings of civil society, Taru Salmenkari investigates local forms of political agency in China in light…
January 1, 2025
Queer Kinship on the Edge?
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland (Routledge, 2024) explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe compli…
December 13, 2024
Banal Security
For more than 70 years, South Korea has woven the threat of North Korea into daily life. But now that threat has become mundane, and South Korean nati…
October 31, 2024
Digital Intimacies
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, saf…
October 29, 2024
Digital Masquerade
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital …
September 26, 2024
Words Like Water
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term th…
September 7, 2024
It’s My Party
It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) is unique in focusing on just one b…
August 25, 2024
Maid to Queer
Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires (Hong Kong UP, 2021) is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop…