Tan See-Kam , Peter X Feng, Gina Marchetti: Chinese Connections

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>How Chinese cinema and global Chinese culture intersect over questions of identity<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592132676&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1748_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Chinese Connections</h1> <H2>Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora</H2> <h3>edited by Tan See-Kam, Peter X Feng and Gina Marchetti</h3> <P>cloth 1-59213-267-7 $95.50, Jan 09, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-59213-268-5 $36.95, Jan 09, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 320 pp 6x9 1 figure 16 halftones </P><P><I>Chinese Connections</I> is a valuable new anthology that provides a prismatic look at the cross-fertilization between Chinese film and global popular culture. Leading film scholars consider the influence of world cinema on China-related and Chinese-related cinema over the last five decades. Highlighting the neglected connections between Chinese films and American and European cinema, the editors and contributors examine popular works such as Ang Lee�s <I>The Hulk</I> and Olivier Assayas� <I>Irma Vep</I> to show the nexus of international film production and how national, political, social and sexual identities are represented in the Chinese diaspora.</P> <P>With talent flowing back and forth between East and West, <I>Chinese Connections</I> explores how issues of immigration, class, race and economic displacement are viewed on a global level, ultimately providing a greater understanding of the impact of Chinese filmmaking at home and abroad.</P> <P>Contributors include: Grace An, Aaron Anderson, Chris Berry, Evans Chan, Li-Mei Chang, Frances Gateward, Andrew Grossman, Peter Hitchcock, Chuck Kleinhans, Jenny Kwok Wah Lau, Helen Leung, Aaron Magnan-Park, Gayle Wald, Esther C.M. Yau, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Xuelin Zhou and the editors.</P> <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"According to its editors�</i>Chinese Connections<i> blazes a new trail, and it is easy to agree with them.... At times, the eclecticism of the contributions threatens to thwart the attempts of the book�s editors to impose order; but in a sense, it is the sheer scope and number of its essays which furnish this volume with its core strength. </i>Chinese Connections<i> contains 19 chapters in a volume just shy of 300 pages; and these pieces manage to cover essential films and essential filmmakers at the same time as straying into less tried terrain in stimulating ways. The result is a volume that has something to say to everyone from undergraduates to film specialists. Indeed, although the last few years have seen the publication of several high-quality, broad-sweep volumes on Chinese film � both nationally and transnationally � few have quite the reach and range of this one." </i><br><b> <i> The China Quarterly</i></b> <p><i>"Overall, using 'transnational' China as the overarching framework, </i>Chinese Connections<i> touches on many key questions of Chinese culture, nation, and geopolitics....[The editors] point out important issues regarding the kinds of analytical frameworks we may use in analyzing global mediated culture." </i><br><b> <i>Jump Cut</i></b> <p><i>"The book presents various perspectives of Chinese films, showing a multiplicity of approaches in studying Chinese cinema in general. The essays are insightful and well written and they all go a long way in helping the reader to understand the many facets of Chinese cinema." </i><br><b> <i>China Review International</i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Acknowledgements <br>Introduction <p><b>Part I: Global Connections</b> <br>1. False Consciousness and Double Consciousness: Race, Virtual Reality, and the Assimilation of Hong Kong <br>2. The Par-asian Cinematic Imaginary in Olivier Assayas's <i>Irma Vep</i> <br>3. The HK Venture: The Francophone Cine-logocentric Nexus <br>4. Wong Fei-Hung in Da House: Hong Kong Martial-Arts Films and Hip-Hop Culture <br>5. Same Difference: Racial Masculinity in Hong Kong and Cop-Buddy "Hybrids" <br>6. American Popular Music and Neocolonialism in the Films of Edward Yang <br>7. Hollywood and Taiwan: Connections, Countercurrents, and Ang Lee's <i>Hulk</i> <br>8. Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong Cinema in the New Century <p><b>Part II: Questions of Gender</b> <br>9. "From Behind the Wall": The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Film <br>10. Beyond the Western Gaze: Orientalism, Feminism, and the Suffering Woman in Nontransnational Chinese Cinema <br>11. Disappearing Faces: Bisexuality and Transvestism in Two Hong Kong Comedies <br>12. Staging Gay Life in China: Zhang Yuan and <i>East Palace, West Palace</i> <br>13. Whose Fatal Ways: Mapping the Boundary and Consuming the Other in Border Crossing Films <br>14. Asian Martial-Arts Cinema, Dance, and the Cultural Languages of Gender <p><b>Part III: At the Millennium and Beyond</b> <br>15. Singapore as a Society of Strangers: Eric Khoo's <i>Mee Pok Man</i> <br>16. Chinese Cinema Revisits the City: Beijng Trilogy and Global Urbanism of the 1990s <br>17. Taiwan Fever? Tsai Ming-Liang and the Everyday Postnation <br>18. The Spirits of Capital and Haunting Sounds: Translocal Historicism in <i>Victim</i> (1999) <br>19. Zhang Yimou's <i>Hero</i>: The Temptations of Fascism <p>Appendix A: On Chinese Names <br>Appendix B: Chinese Names, Words, and Phrases <br>Appendix C: Chinese-Language Filmography <br>Contributors <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Tan See-Kam</b> is Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China. His research mainly focuses on gender and Chinese-language cinema and he has published widely in this area. He is co-editor of <i>Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema</i> (2007) and also <i>Hong Kong Alternative Cinema Through the Global Lens</i> (forthcoming).</P> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1748_au2.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Peter X Feng</b> is Associate Professor of English and Women�s Studies at the University of Delaware, where he teaches film history, Asian American Studies and Cultural Studies. He is the author of <i> Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video</i> and editor of <i>Screening Asian Americans</i>.</P></td></tr></table><table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1748_au3.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Gina Marchetti</b> teaches at the University of Hong Kong in Comparative Literature and is the author of <i><a href="1678_reg.html" target="_top">From Tian�anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997</a></i> (Temple) and <i>Romance and the �Yellow Peril�: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction</i>.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/cinema.html" TARGET="_top">Cinema Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/asian.html" TARGET="_top">Asian Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/mass_media.html" TARGET="_top">Mass Media and Communications</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592132676&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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