Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. His research primarily focuses on queer cultures in contemporary China, including queer films, filmmakers, and film festivals. 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)
He also writes a column for CIFA.
PhD in Ethnic History from Yunnan University, retired scholar from the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences. Former associate researcher at the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences History Institute, director of the History Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Yunnan Provincial Museum, consultant for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in the United States, training expert for Save the Children in the UK, consultant for Hong Kong Community Partners, and chairman of the Yunnan Rural Eye Local Culture Research Center. Dedicated to the cultural anthropology of the mountainous regions in western China (ritual performance, sacred mountain beliefs, community environmental knowledge), video production and research, and community environmental protection actions. Participated in the establishment of the ‘Yunnan Multicultural Visual Festival’ (hosted by the Baima Mountain Culture Research Center), the ‘Chinese Ethnographic Documentary Academic Exhibition’ (hosted by the Chinese Ethnic Museum), and the practice of ‘Rural Image Education’. Involved in planning the ‘Chinese Ethnographic Documentary Film Series’ (Yunnan People’s Publishing House) and the ‘Chinese Documentary Image Library’ (Ethnic Publishing House).
is senior researcher of China Film Archive. He is also a film critic and a curator. Graduating from Beijing Film Academy, he holds a PhD degree in film studies. His research interests include film history and independent cinema. He also writes for The Economic Observer and Southen Weekly as a columnist. He is the author of Diseases of Our Time: Witnessing Independent Film Culture (2008), The Politics of the Cinema (2014), and The Will of the Cinema (2019).
He also writes a column for CIFA.
is a film critic, a film curator and an independent film producer. She got her master degree from Beijing Normal University in 2000 and started her critical and curatorial practices in creative visual art since then. She has followed and witnessed the development of Chinese independent film in the past two decades, and has produced a large amount of reviews and interviews on this subject, published in various media.