Hongwei Bao was born in China and currently lives in Nottingham, UK. He has published four books on queer Chinese history and culture: Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018), Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021) and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge 2022). Besides being an academic, he also writes short stories, poems, reviews and critical essays. He writes in both Chinese and English and has translated literary works and film subtitles from Chinese to English. His creative work has appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Cuntemporary, Shanghai Literary Review, Room 1000, Soundings, The Conversation, Write On, Words Without Borders and Yishu.