Chinesespeaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume Boys Love Cosplay and Androgynous Idols Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China Hong Kong and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of often online queer representations productions fantasies and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nationstates linguistics geopolitics genders and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity identity and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinesespeaking contexts the essays in this volume challenge longestablished Westerncentric and Japanesefocused fan scholarship by highlighting the significance and specificities of Sinophone queer fan cultures and practices in a globalized world. The geographic organization of the chapters illuminates cultural differences and the other competing forces shaping geocultural intersections among fandoms based in Mainland China Hong Kong and Taiwan.