CIHK —【Specialist Lectures on Chinese History and Culture(1)】Born Pink? Born Queer!: The Emergence of Queerness in East Asian Idol Girl

Dr. Jamie J. Zhao

Dr. Jamie J. Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR. Her research explores East Asian media and public discourses on female gender and sexuality in a globalist age. She is the editor of Queer TV China (HKUP, 2023), and coedited Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols (HKUP, 2017), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2024). She has also (co)edited ten special journal issues on the topics of global queer media, celebrity and fan studies.