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Undercurrents
Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong
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Helen Hok-Sze Leung
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
The first English-language book to deal with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong, Undercurrents examines the city’s screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period.
Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of “queer” to examine Hong Kong’s screen, uncovering a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
Author / Editor information
Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an assistant professor in women’s studies at Simon Fraser University.
Reviews
David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America:
There is nothing quite like Undercurrents currently available in the English language. Its archive – Hong Kong cultural productions including contemporary cinema, architecture, urban space, modern literature, icons from popular culture, and community-driven radio programming – is impressively wide-ranging and diverse. Its theoretical apparatus – bringing together queer theory and postcolonial studies – is equally remarkable. This is a beautifully conceived, crafted, and compelling book.
There is nothing quite like Undercurrents currently available in the English language. Its archive – Hong Kong cultural productions including contemporary cinema, architecture, urban space, modern literature, icons from popular culture, and community-driven radio programming – is impressively wide-ranging and diverse. Its theoretical apparatus – bringing together queer theory and postcolonial studies – is equally remarkable. This is a beautifully conceived, crafted, and compelling book.
Chris Berry, co-author of China on Screen: Cinema and Nation:
This lucid and original book is the first dealing with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong. By eschewing the conventional – and foreign – ideas of gay and lesbian identity for a more protean range of possibilities under the rubric of “queer,” Helen Hok-Sze Leung shows that Hong Kong’s screen culture includes a much richer and deeper queer vein than many observers have supposed.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 1, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780774856119
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
204
Other:
11 b&w illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780774856119
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
