His research focuses on mediated cultural politics in a transnational Chinese context, including but not limited to: gay identity and queer politics, social media and community media, and film and filmmaking. He is author of the book Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (forthcoming in 2018). This article was first published on the blog Women and Gender in China (WAGIC) and can be found here. Image credit: CC by Wikipedia Commons.