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It highlights three main areas: TV shows, media regulations, and LGBTQ+ celebrities, emphasizing how the concept of “queer/ing” is applied to media culture. The book links queer visibility to historical and policy constraints, discussing censorship pressures and outlining a theoretical framework for an interdisciplinary field, while detailing gender and sexuality depictions in reality competition shows.","RECENZJE  RECENZJE  RECENZJE  \nJamie J. Zhao, Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong 2023, ss. 252  \nIn recent years, there has been a sudden surge in queer productions across East and South-East Asian countries. While queer literature and comics, especially those about male-male relationships (often referred to as BL meaning Boy’s Love), have long been popular and widely disseminated throughout Asian countries as a result of Japanese influences, TV dramas are a relatively new phenomenon, especially in countries with conservative societies in relation  \nto the LGBTQ+ community. One such country emerging as one of the leading sources of BL productions is South Korea, with Thailand, Taiwan and Japan in the lead. Starting with productions in which secret glances and subtle touches are all viewers could expect, current Korean BL productions are becoming more daring and controversial within Korean society. One recent major hit was the 2024 series Love in the Big City, adapted from a novel by Sang Young Park. Focusing on the romantic lives of gay protagonists, the production faced backlash and criticism from conservative groups, calling for its cancellation  \nDOI: 10.4467/23538724GS.25.013.21950  \nand abandonment of production.1 Despite this, South Korean BL dramas are gathering the fame and attention that perhaps should also be afforded to productions from other countries eager to expand queer narratives but facing significant obstacles, such as government regulations. This brings us to China, where, although the producers are ready to present Chinese queer productions to the world, they must confront the harsh reality where BL series often end up in suspension with little to no possibility of ever being aired, such as series long-awaited by fandoms like Eternal Faith (吉星高照) or Immortality (皓衣行) .2  \nQueer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness, edited by Jamie J. Zhao with contributions by several other scholars, shows queer representation in post- 2010 Chinese productions, through three main topics: TV shows, media regulations and LGBTQ+ celebrities. Zhao and other scholars discuss queer  \n1 G. Lee, ‘Love in the Big City’ star addresses backlash, embraces support amid LGBTQ+ controversy,“The Korea Times” 2024, [https://www.koreatimes. co.kr/www/](https://www.koreatimes. co.kr/www/)[ ](https://www.koreatimes. co.kr/www/)[art/2025/02/398_384460.html](art/2025/02/398_384460.html) (access: 6.03.2025) .  \n2 T. Hu, L. Ge, C. Yue Wang, A state against boys’ love? Reviewing the trajectory of censorship over danmei, “Continuum” 2024, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 234.  \nGDAŃSKIE STUDIA AZJI WSCHODNIEJ 2025/27 205  \nrepresentation on Chinese TV by focusing on specific types of media culture, such as TV shows, novels, or fandom phenomena. As Zhao writes in the introduction, the book offers some completely fresh and new scholarly research on the extensive term “queer,”also called in the book “queer/ing,”and applies it to TV culture in China. In a mostly heterosexual and patriarchal society based on heteronormative norms, where the term queer is very sensitive and often avoided in a wider context, the idea of queer TV culture is shown in media by presenting non-heteronormative celebrities, homoerotic behaviors between cis actors, transgender personalities, and queer participants in Chinese-language talk shows (p. 13) . The term queer is very fluid and Zhao focuses on showing the odd details of behaviors that are not depicted as“normal” in a heteronormative context. The “Chineseness” included in the book’s title refers to communities living in Mainland China, but also in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and other countries with Chinese-speaking minorities.  \nWhile a few scholars have already discussed queer representation in Chinese media and TV series, Zhao’s Queer TV China is the first published book to comprehensively cover the s","cbCaiohsUHbWPpMr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiohsUHbWPpMr","pdf",280780,1,6,"English","en",105,"# Overview of the book and its scope\n## Three core topics: TV shows, regulations, celebrities\n# Conceptual framework of “queer/ing” and “Chineseness”\n## Fluid definition of queer in heteronormative context\n# Censorship, visibility, and queer narratives in media\n## BL adaptations and policy constraints","[{\"question\":\"What time period and media forms does Queer TV China focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on queer representation in post-2010 Chinese productions, centering on TV shows and related fan and media culture phenomena.\"},{\"question\":\"Which three topics structure the book’s analysis?\",\"answer\":\"The book organizes its discussion around TV shows, media regulations, and LGBTQ+ celebrities.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review describe the book’s contribution to academic research?\",\"answer\":\"It presents a theoretical framework for “queer TV China” as a new interdisciplinary research field and offers insights into Chinese history, culture, and policies shaping queer visibility.\"}]","Queer TV China - 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