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Denise Tse-Shang Tang is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life (Hong Kong University Press, 2011). Her articles have published in Sex Education, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and Berliner China-Hefte. Prior to entering academia, Tang worked in community-based organizations in the fields of violence against women, juvenile justice, queer youth, aboriginals, mental health, substance use and HIV/AIDS. In 2004 and 2005, she was the festival director for the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Current research interests include queer youth and self-harm, intimacy and mobile phone applications, celebrity culture and civic engagement.
In Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures, Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and William F. Schroeder offer a volume of essays that explores queer activist communities in China, traversing such themes as media representation, queer filmmaking and film festivals and autoethnographic methodologies.