About Baopu

Baopu is a comic by New York-based Yao Xiao exploring the poetics of searching for identities, connections and friendships through the fictional life of a young, queer emigrant, Baopu.
Baopu stands for ‘holding simplicity,’
a Taoist ideal of wishing to return to a simpler state.
Read Baopu on Autostraddle.
“It’s some powerful food for thought.“
-Huffington Post
“emotional, beautiful, and moving“
-HelloGiggles
“Staggeringly beautiful and heartbreakingly familiar, this comic hits close to home, wherever that home might be.“
-Yes Homo