He Xiaopei
He Xiaopei
Dr. He Xiaopei, indie film director, Executive Director of Pink Space, a Non-Governmental Organization. When Xiaopei was a teenager, she was a shepherd in the hills. After graduating from university, she joined the Chinese Mountaineering Team and hit the Himalayas, Namcha Barwa summit. After leaving the mountaineering team, she entered the State Council as an economist, and conducted economic reforms research for 14 years. From the 1990s, she devoted herself to the feminist and lesbian movement in China, and took part in the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Later she went to the UK to study sexuality and cultural studies. After graduating with a Ph.D. she returned to China to set up Pink Space using films to represent invisibilised desires and lives.
