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...Yiman Wang This article studies the interactions between the “foreign” female star body and the body of nation and national film historiography through the lens of the Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung and her two crossover films, Centre Stage and Irma Vep . The premise of my argument...

...King-Kok Cheung This essay takes issue both with scholars who consider Chinese allusions in Asian American literature as Orientalist and with critics who advocate wholesale reclamation of an Asian (heroic) tradition. It shows through a detailed analysis of two poems how Chinese American writers...

...Siu-keung Cheung 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Speaking Out: Days in the Lives of Three Hong Kong Cage Dwellers Siu-keung Cheung From its humble origin as a fishing village on a bit of barren granite, Hong Kong has been developed...

...Kwai-Cheung Lo This essay attempts to connect China with Žižek's theoretical ideas by discussing the multiple meanings of sinicization that brings forth self-negating contradictions. Arguing that contemporary postsocialist China's rapid and ruthless capitalization urgently calls for the realization...

... –  1961), Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Li Xianglan, Ri Ko-ran, Shirley Yama- guchi) (1920 – ), and Maggie Cheung (or Zhang Manyu in Mandarin Chi- nese) (1964 – ). I choose to focus on them for two reasons: (1) their career climaxes correspond...

... on a ‘free markets make it all fair’ form of moral endeavor — is one in which markets are not ‘free’ and their ramifications are not ‘fair.’ ” King-­Kok Cheung’s “Slanted Allusions: Transnational Poetics and Poli- tics of Marilyn Chin and Russell...

... the danger of the vamp and its subter- ranean existence throughout the war years. Likewise, Yiman Wang’s “The Palimpsest Body and the S(h)ifting Bor- der: On Maggie Cheung’s Two Crossover Films” examines the power of women’s...

... for a “Žižek without Žižek” — “the desire to deprive a radical thinker of his excess and radicalness,” as Kwai- Cheung Lo wittily puts it (this issue, Or, does this apparently self- contradictory desire result from more complicated factors, since...

... and at the same time fertile for the creation of a Hong Kong identity. Such a cause-and- effect method of explaining cultural changes through political changes is what Kwai-cheung Lo calls a “mechanical determinism.” He perceives...

... 119 Figure 4  A skull, still blindfolded, newly dug up from the killing fields of Cheung Ek, 1981. Photograph by Boreth Ly to the Killing Fields of Cheung Ek to be executed. The other image shows a blindfolded prisoner...

... : Frankfurt and Main . Lau Dorothy . 2016 . “ ‘Friending’ Jet Li on Facebook: The Chinese Celebrity Persona in Online Social Network .” Journal of Asian Cinema 26 , no. 2 : 169 – 92 . Lo Kwai-Cheung . 2005 . Chinese Face/Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong...

... at National Taiwan University and an Aborigine’s rights activist. Siu-keung Cheung, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Edinburgh, is inter- ested in land tenure, patriarchal colonialism, and subaltern voices and politics in Hong...

... of eight books, including Aesthetics and Marxism Globalization and Cultural Trend in China Culture/Media/Globalization and Demonizing China Kwai- Cheung Lo is professor in the Humanities Program and the Department of English...

... movement in Japan. He is the author of Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature (2007) and Youth Movements, Trauma, and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan (2013). King-­Kok Cheung is professor...

... in modern Hong Kong culture was not confined to a masculine gaze; on the contrary, women played a leading part in it.33 Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, and Kaneshiro Takeshi (Jin Cheng Wu, in Chinese pronunciation)34 all play in Wong Kar-wai’s...

... that could not be seen with the camera’s eye. The special issue entitled “subimperialisms” had an extraordinary essay by Siu- keung Cheung on “Speaking Out: Days in the Lives of Three Hong Kong Cage Dwellers.”11 The fantasy of glittering, wealthy...

...Martin F. Manalansan, IV Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Cheung , King-kok 1993 . Articulate Silences . Ithaca: Cornell University Press. de Certeau , Michel . 1984 , The Practice of Everyday Life . Berkeley: University of California Press...

... culture? A Nostalgic Queerscape: The Intimates In June 1997, only a few weeks away from the handover ceremony, Jacob Cheung’s The Intimates opened the First Hong Kong International Film Exhibit, an event that, in addition to promoting local films...

... Karenina (London Films, 1948). 12 Poon On-na 潘安娜 / Anna Poon (Pak Yin) is unhappily married to a rich businessman. She encounters her childhood sweetheart, Wong Kei-shu 王基樹 (Cheung Wood-yau), but resists his courtship. Her husband, Chan Hak-lit 陳克烈 (played by Cantonese opera maestro Ma Si-tsang 馬師曾...

... of doing differently, of newly understanding the spatial and discursive meanings of Hong Kong when freed of the special Hong Kong muchacho debates. In his essay, Siu-keung Cheung takes the matter to and from the lives of three...