Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary PDF
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Backward Glances asia-pacific: culture, politics, and society . . . Editors: Rey Chow, H. D. Harootunian, and Masao Miyoshi Backward Glances . . . . . . . . . Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary Fran Martin Duke University Press Durham and London 2010 © 2010 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. For Carol . . . Contents Acknowledgments . . . ix Note on Translations and Transliterations . . . xi Introduction: Love and Remembrance . . . 1 1 Tragic Romance: The Chinese Going-In Story . . . 29 2 Voluble Ellipsis: Second-Wave Schoolgirl Romance in Taiwan and Hong Kong . . . 49 3 Postsocialist Melancholia: “Blue Sky Green Sea” . . . 75 4 No Future: Tomboy Melodrama . . . 93 5 Television as Public Mourning: Taiwan’s Sad Young Women . . . 118 6 Critical Presentism: New Chinese Lesbian Cinema . . . 147 Epilogue . . . 180 Appendix: Interview with Shi Tou . . . 187 List of Chinese Characters . . . 199 Notes . . . 205 Filmography . . . 255 Selected Bibliography . . . 259 Index . . . 281 . . . Acknowledgments The research toward this book was made possible by an Australian Research Council Discovery Projects grant. Thanks to the many friends and colleagues who in different ways helped this book come into being: AD, Tomoko Aoyama, Chris Berry, Marion J. Campbell, Karen Chang Hsiu-min, Lisa Chen Xiuyu, Chen Xue, Yushin “Deadcat” Chen, Wen Cheng, Rey Chow, Chu T’ien-hsin, Naifei Ding, Hiromi Tsichuya Dollase, Brett Farmer, Garfield, Han Jia-yu, Chris Healy, Lai Zheng-zhe, Larissa Heinrich, Josephine Ho, Jubin Hu, Alison Huber, Lucifer Hung, Lucetta Kam, Olivia Khoo, Helen Hok-sze Leung, Pik-ki Leung, Tania Lewis, Li Yu, Jenpeng Liu, Joyce Liu, Yan Yan Mak, Mark McLel- land, Meaghan Morris, Lisa Palmer, Amie Parry, Greg Pflugfelder, Shi Tou, Jessie Shih, Teri Silvio, Carmen Tong, John Treat, Yin Wang, James Welker, Angela Wong Yin Ni, Cuncun Wu, Taeko Yamada, and Zhuang Mingzhu.
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