Chinese Women’s Cinema (eBook)

Lingzhen Wang is associate professor of modern Chinese literature, gender studies, and Chinese film and media at Brown University. She is the author of Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth Century China and the editor and co-translator of Years of Sadness: Translation Anthology of Wang Anyi's Autobiographical Works.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational Feminist Reconfiguration of Film Discourse and Women's Cinema, by Lingzhen WangPart I: Female Authorship Negotiated in Different Times, Spaces, and Genres1. Socialist Cinema and Female Authorship: Overdetermination and Subjective Revisions in Dong Kena's "Small Grass Grows on the Kunlun Mountain" (1962), by Lingzhen Wang2. Masochist Men and Normal Women: Tang Shu Shuen and "The Arch" (1969), by Yau Ching3. Migrating Hearts: The Cultural Geography of Sylvia Chang's Melodrama, by Zhen ZhangPart II: Gendered Voices: Images and Affect4. The Voice of History and the Voice of Women: A Study of Huang Shuqin's Women's Films, by Xingyang Li5. Post-Taiwan New Cinema Women Directors and Their Films: Auteurs, Images, Language, by Yu-Shan Huang and Chun-Chi Wang6. 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 KaplanPart III: The Visual Subject and Feminist Cinema7. The Encoding of Female Subjectivity: Four Films by China's Fifth-Generation Women Directors, by S. Louisa Wei8. From Mao's "Continuous Revolution" to Ning Ying's "Perpetual Motion" (2005): Sexual Politics, Neoliberalism, and Postmodern China, by Gina Marchetti9. Searching for Female Sexuality and Negotiating with Feminism: Li Yu's Film Trilogy, by Shuqin CuiPart IV: Female Writing, Performance, and Issues of Cinematic Agency10. To Write or to Act, That Is the Question: 1920s to 1930s Shanghai Actress-Writers and the Death of the "New Woman", by Yiman Wang11. Gender, Genre, and Performance in Eileen Chang's Films: Equivocal Contrasts Across the Print-Screen Divide, by Yingjin Zhang12. Chu T'ien-wen and the Sotto Voce of Feminine Expression in the Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, by Christopher Lupke13. To Become an Auteur: The Cinematic Maneuverings of Xu Jinglei, by Jingyuan ZhangPart V: Migration, Diaspora, and Transcultural Practice of Gender and Cinema14. In Search of Esther Eng: Border-Crossing Pioneer in Chinese-Language Filmmaking, by Kar Law15. Transpacific Waves in a Global Sea: Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's Cinematic Archive, by Staci Ford16. Filming One's Way Home: Clara Law's Letters to Oz, by Shiao-Ying ShenFilmographyGlossaryBibliographyIndex