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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRecommended Choice Chinese Women's Cinema offers thoughtful theoretial interventions into feminist film theory and superb analyses of Chinese female filmmakers that will certainly spark additional study of historically constituted Chinese women's cinema and its complex negotiation of female subjectivities. -- Tina Mai Chen Cinema Journal
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Transnational Feminist Reconfiguration of Film Discourse and Women's Cinema, by Lingzhen Wang Part I: Female Authorship Negotiated in Different Times, Spaces, and Genres 1. Socialist Cinema and Female Authorship: Overdetermination and Subjective Revisions in Dong Kena's "Small Grass Grows on the Kunlun Mountain" (1962), by Lingzhen Wang 2. Masochist Men and Normal Women: Tang Shu Shuen and "The Arch" (1969), by Yau Ching 3. Migrating Hearts: The Cultural Geography of Sylvia Chang's Melodrama, by Zhen Zhang Part II: Gendered Voices: Images and Affect 4. The Voice of History and the Voice of Women: A Study of Huang Shuqin's Women's Films, by Xingyang Li 5. Post-Taiwan New Cinema Women Directors and Their Films: Auteurs, Images, Language, by Yu-Shan Huang and Chun-Chi Wang 6. Affect, Memory, and Trauma Past Tense in Hu Mei's "Army Nurse" (1985) and Xu Jinglei's "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (2004), by E. Ann Kaplan Part III: The Visual Subject and Feminist Cinema 7. The Encoding of Female Subjectivity: Four Films by China's Fifth-Generation Women Directors, by S. Louisa Wei 8. From Mao's "Continuous Revolution" to Ning Ying's "Perpetual Motion" (2005): Sexual Politics, Neoliberalism, and Postmodern China, by Gina Marchetti 9. Searching for Female Sexuality and Negotiating with Feminism: Li Yu's Film Trilogy, by Shuqin Cui Part IV: Female Writing, Performance, and Issues of Cinematic Agency 10. To Write or to Act, That Is the Question: 1920s to 1930s Shanghai Actress-Writers and the Death of the "New Woman", by Yiman Wang 11. Gender, Genre, and Performance in Eileen Chang's Films: Equivocal Contrasts Across the Print-Screen Divide, by Yingjin Zhang 12. Chu T'ien-wen and the Sotto Voce of Feminine Expression in the Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, by Christopher Lupke 13. To Become an Auteur: The Cinematic Maneuverings of Xu Jinglei, by Jingyuan Zhang Part V: Migration, Diaspora, and Transcultural Practice of Gender and Cinema 14. In Search of Esther Eng: Border-Crossing Pioneer in Chinese-Language Filmmaking, by Kar Law 15. Transpacific Waves in a Global Sea: Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's Cinematic Archive, by Staci Ford 16. Filming One's Way Home: Clara Law's Letters to Oz, by Shiao-Ying Shen Filmography Glossary Bibliography Index
