Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway, and an affiliated researcher at the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (2014), and co-editor of Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures (2015, with W.F. Schroeder and H. Bao). Engebretsen convenes the European Network for Queer Anthropology and co-chairs the Society for Queer Asia Studies.