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By Arif Dirlik, Evans Chan, Xudong Zhang
Published: 06 October 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380221-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8022-1
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060888-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6088-8
... This chapter explores Hong Kong cinema as a rich site for queer Sinophone theory, positioning Hong Kong as a geographic locale through the visual mapping of global intimacies and connections. It expands on Shu-mei Shih’s insight into the Sinophone as a nonrelational approach toward Chineseness...
Published: 05 February 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021261-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2126-1
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By Jean Ma
Published: 13 May 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7562-3
... Hong Kong cinema diaspora film music musicals opera films ...
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By Alvin K. Wong
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 18 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6088-8
... border Sinophone Hong Kong cinema Fruit Chan sex work ...
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By Belinda Kong
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2781-2
... Project 1:99 City of SARS Golden Chicken Cantopop Hong Kong cinema ...
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060888-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6088-8
.... Overall, Chan’s cinematic aesthetic trespasses multiple Sinophone borders. border Sinophone Hong Kong cinema Fruit Chan sex work ...
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060888-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6088-8
... an unruly method of comparison that unsettles the Eurocentrism of queer theory and the China-centrism of area studies. Conceptually, unruly comparison reads queerness in Hong Kong cinema, literature, and visual cultures across the incommensurable terrains of British colonialism, settler colonialism, Chinese...
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027812-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2781-2
... in Hong Kong popular culture in the post-SARS era and Sam Hui's COVID-19 virtual concert. Project 1:99 City of SARS Golden Chicken Cantopop Hong Kong cinema ...
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By Jean Ma
Published: 13 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375623-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7562-3
.... Film songs flourished in this period bookended by the Chinese jazz age and the era of rock ‘n’ roll. Hong Kong cinema diaspora film music musicals opera films ...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... architecture of the cold war? This essay listens closely to the musical cinema of Hong Kong and Taiwan of the 1960s in order to answer these questions. Jones focuses on the Hong Kong diva Grace Chang and her appropriation of Afro-Caribbean genres, such as mambo and calypso, in a series of high-flying...
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By Ronald Radano, Tejumola Olaniyan
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... of the cold war? This essay listens closely to the musical cinema of Hong Kong and Taiwan of the 1960s in order to answer these questions. Jones focuses on the Hong Kong diva Grace Chang and her appropriation of Afro-Caribbean genres, such as mambo and calypso, in a series of high-flying transnationally...
Published: 10 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374251-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7425-1
... Chapter 2 investigates a shift in the intersection of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in Thailand. This analysis of the anachronisms of haunting in the 2002 Hong Kong–Thai coproduction The Eye sheds light on the recent transformation of Chinese femininity from denigrated minority identity...
Published: 25 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374343-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7434-3
... This chapter explores the Sonagi Village tourist attraction in Yangp’yŏng, South Korea, dedicated to the Korean novelist Hwang Sun-wŏn’s classic postwar short story “Sonagi” (1959), and the way in which Daisy (2006), a collaboration between the Hong Kong director Andrew Lau and the Korean...
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By Youngmin Choe
Published: 25 March 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7434-3
... to the Korean novelist Hwang Sun-wŏn’s classic postwar short story “Sonagi” (1959), and the way in which Daisy (2006), a collaboration between the Hong Kong director Andrew Lau and the Korean filmmaker Kwak Jae-yong, appropriates and adapts the traditional Korean trope of the sonagi , or sudden rain shower...
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By Jean Ma
Published: 13 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375623-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7562-3
... Grace Chang was one of the biggest stars of postwar Hong Kong film and popular music, most remembered for her debut role in Mambo Girl, which introduced to Chinese cinema the figure of the singing and dancing teenager. Her performances introduced new, foreign musical styles—such as American rock...
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By Arnika Fuhrmann
Published: 10 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7425-1
... transnationality Chinese history femininity Hong Kong memory ...
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By Alvin K. Wong
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 18 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6088-8
... Sinophone cinema settler colonialism lesbianism Scud minor transnationalism ...