Over his 30 year career, filmmaker Stanley Kwan has made his mark as one of the most important voices in Greater Chinese cinema. He is celeb

And I said hey, what's going on? Numbers are power, and Sense8's Chinese fan base may have been large enough to save the cult TV series from the ratings axe if the show could have been legally broadcast in the Mainland. Anti-homosexual censorship of media is damaging not only the LGBTQ community, but also a potentially massive market for queer film and television. It was early morning on June 2nd. I opened my eyes, still bleary with sleep, to find the internet broken with the

New guidelines published last week by the China Netcasting Services Association (CNSA) have effectively banned portrayals of homosexuality from all film, TV and web series online, deeming it 'abnormal sexual behavior,' alongside incest and rape. If enforced, what will these new regulations mean for China's LGBTQ population? Without any doubt, the new CNSA guidelines' ambition to wipe queer characters off the internet will damage the lives of the Chinese LGBTQ community. The i

Yu Jing is a film journalist and programmer for Shanghai Queer Film Festival. Returning from Cannes Film Festival, she shares her thoughts on being Asian, queer and just maybe a little flirtatious at the world’s most prestigious cinema event. Queer films are rarely screened in Chinese movie theaters, leaving cinephiles hungry for the queer movies that make waves abroad. Last year, when I got back from Cannes, everyone’s favorite question to ask me was my opinion on The Handma