...Fan Popo; Bao Hongwei Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Love Your Films and Love Your Life: An Interview with Fan Popo Fan Popo and Bao Hongwei, with an introduction by Bao Hongwei Introduction Invited by the Institute for Screen Industries Research, the University of Nottingham...

...Dorothy Wai Sim Lau Internet fan participation has demonstrated the emergent potency of meaning making for transnational stardom. With the ease of searching, poaching, editing, posting, tagging, and annotating texts aided by cyber technology, fans can rework the filmic and publicity materials about...

...Teri Silvio This article analyzes the structure of feeling embodied in a ritual of theater-going in which women fans of Taiwanese Opera would weep along with actresses singing “crying songs” and rush to the stage to hand them money and other gifts. The ritual was popular only during the opera's...

... accrue around these female impersonators. Taking a cue from the work of feminist film historian Miriam Hansen, my study devotes particular attention to how opponents of the oyama often linked their criticism of the practice with disapproving commentary on the troublesome impact that the female fans of...

...Fan Yang This article examines three significant moments of the shanzhai discourse in WTO-era China. Literally referring to a “mountain fortress” occupied by antiofficial bandits, shanzhai is a new term for wide-ranging knockoff products and copycat media forms. Often invoking Robin-Hood-like...

... in the West. While it seems difficult to differentiate his images from crude exploitation and general degradation of women, his photographs attract many female fans. I argue that we are invited and directed to see his photographs in ways that “engender” the viewer. I focus on the “Araki industry...

... Fahrenheit and Super Junior and male pop stars such as Jay Chou, Lam Truong, and Wang Lee Hom have cultivated international followings of screaming fans. The boy bang/gang band project consists of (campy?) images of faux pan-Asian boy bands and solo performers in various guises and costumes, examining the...

... “fashionable” images of Hong Kong. An example of a firm pursuing this tactic was film distribution company Purénon H. To im- prove the image of Hong Kong, Purénon H organized a Hong Kong film fan club, the Hong Kong Yamucha Kurabu, and established a Hong...

... come out” to describe the same situation. These differential language usages are significant because they represent positive or negative experiences behind the disclosure. To Come Out or to Be Pushed Out Fan Gao is a young man from Daytop, a...

... of photos and irregular updates of diaries do not earn them. In the net idol universe, building a fan base is a matter of hard work, of labor invested in producing an appealing performance of cute and in cul- positions 23:3  doi 10.1215...

...: South Asian Screen Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, Contributions to Indian Sociology, and Thapasam: Journal of Kerala Studies, as well as in edited anthologies. Fan Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Media...

...Tani Barlow Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Editor’s Introduction Our lead article takes readers to “WTO-­era China.” Fan Yang’s “From Bandit Cell Phones to Branding the Nation: Three Moments of Shanzhai in WTO-­era...

... solidarity and, by implication, class revolution. This general journal issue ends with three Commentary pieces. Love Your Films and Love Your Life : An Interview with Fan Popo introduces Fan s work, and Fan talks with interlocutor Bao Hongwei about Fan s status as a queer independent filmmaker in a...

... one hanpa naku, number one  — Rhymester, “B-Boyism” A Japanese rapper who calls himself Banana Ice released a song in 1995 called “Imitation + Imitation = Imitation,” in which he ridicules young hip-hop fans...

.... While Ward addresses the relatively underappreciated importance of intel- lectual journals, Teri Silvio’s “Crying Songs and Their Fans: The Material and Affective Economy of Taiwanese Opera, 1945 – 1975” raises a popular form to an appropriately...

... and roll, passionate fan culture, and the subterra- nean culture of youth and antimilitarism that fed the emerging democracy movement in the country. While Pil Ho Kim and Hyunjoon Shin do not shy away from the fact that the U.S. military bases...

... created what they felt was an excessive femininity, while New Women, advocates of new female-­oriented commercial culture, and male progressives argued that the oyama and its big, female fan base threatened Japan’s new cinema in the...

... published in The Polish Journal of Aesthetics. Alexander C. Cook, an independent scholar, is author of The Cultural Revolution on Trial (2016) and editor of Mao s Little Red Book: A Global History (2014). Fan Popo is a queer film maker, writer, and activist. Born in 1985, he graduated from the Beijing Film...

... encounter as the conclusion of Chicken Feathers but to deepen its meaning. When we wrote the screen- play, Xiao Lin takes his wife [played by Xu Fan] and child to the park. Xiao Lin is playing his harmonica as his wife and child are...

... 1994. Qin scattered ten thousand Chinese lotus fans in Kunming Lake at the Imperial Summer Palace in the suburbs of Beijing. Manmade objects—lotus fans in yellow and white—lie next to natural green lotuses in the blue water of Kunming Lake. This...