Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape

Shi-Yan Chao is research assistant professor in the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University, and was an INTERACT postdoctoral fellow in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. His articles on Chinese-language film and media and vocal performance have appeared in various journals and anthologies.

• Acknowledgements,Introduction: Processing Tongzhi/Queer Imaginaries, Chapter 1: The Chinese Queer Diasporic Imaginary, Chapter 2: Two Stage Sisters: Comrades, Almost a Love Story, Chapter 3: Mass Camp in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema, Chapter 4: Toward An Aesthetic of Tongzhi Camp, Chapter 5: Coming Out of The Box, Lalas with DV Cameras, Chapter 6: Performing Gender, Performing Documentary in Postsocialist China, Conclusion, Chinese Glossary,Bilingual Filmography,Selected Bibliography in English, Index.

Chao Shi-yan's book is a jewelry box of delights, sparkling with sharp analysis of Chinese-language queer culture ranging from Maoist melodrama to Taiwanese musicals, lesbian documentaries, and adaptations from queer literary classics. Arranged in three sections on kinship, camp, and documentary, they illuminate a little known and complex landscape. - Chris Berry, King's College London From PRC socialist classic and Hong Kong popular cinema to DV lesbian documentaries and Taiwan camp aesthetics, this richly researched, deeply contextualized, and theoretically sophisticated tome offers an expansive queer reading of Chinese-language film and media work. An important contribution to Sinophone queer cinema studies. - Song Hwee Lim, author of Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas and Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong