File Download
There are no files associated with this item.
Supplementary
-
Citations:
- Appears in Collections:
Conference Paper: Divided Women and the Chinese Dream: Gender, Sexuality, Modernity, and the Nation in Anna & Anna (Aubrey Lam, 2007) and Lotus (Liu Shu, 2012)
Title | Divided Women and the Chinese Dream: Gender, Sexuality, Modernity, and the Nation in Anna & Anna (Aubrey Lam, 2007) and Lotus (Liu Shu, 2012) |
---|---|
Authors | |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Citation | 12th Biennial Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 2018, Shanghai, China, 12-15 August 2018 How to Cite? |
Abstract | As the People’s Republic of China wrestles with enormous social and economic
changes in the twenty-first century, women increasingly symbolize the divided lives
that cross tradition and modernity, socialism and capitalism, the mainland and its
periphery, the porous national borders of the diaspora, and the boundaries between
the domestic and the public spheres. Chinese women experience what W. E. B.
DuBois might call a “double consciousness” as they navigate a male-dominated
world plagued by ideological, class, ethnic, linguistic and other schisms. Set against
the backdrop of post-Mao China’s economic and political ascent on the world stage,
two female-directed films, inspired by Kieślowski’s post-socialist parable The
Double Life of Veronique (1991), Anna & Anna and Lotus, illustrate the ways in
which narratives about divided women can allegorize the Chinese nation’s troubled
relationship with modernity through stories about female sexuality. |
Description | Session A15: Gender, Sexuality, Nation and Modernity |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/263928 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Marchetti, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-22T07:46:43Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-22T07:46:43Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | 12th Biennial Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 2018, Shanghai, China, 12-15 August 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/263928 | - |
dc.description | Session A15: Gender, Sexuality, Nation and Modernity | - |
dc.description.abstract | As the People’s Republic of China wrestles with enormous social and economic changes in the twenty-first century, women increasingly symbolize the divided lives that cross tradition and modernity, socialism and capitalism, the mainland and its periphery, the porous national borders of the diaspora, and the boundaries between the domestic and the public spheres. Chinese women experience what W. E. B. DuBois might call a “double consciousness” as they navigate a male-dominated world plagued by ideological, class, ethnic, linguistic and other schisms. Set against the backdrop of post-Mao China’s economic and political ascent on the world stage, two female-directed films, inspired by Kieślowski’s post-socialist parable The Double Life of Veronique (1991), Anna & Anna and Lotus, illustrate the ways in which narratives about divided women can allegorize the Chinese nation’s troubled relationship with modernity through stories about female sexuality. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Biennial Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference | - |
dc.title | Divided Women and the Chinese Dream: Gender, Sexuality, Modernity, and the Nation in Anna & Anna (Aubrey Lam, 2007) and Lotus (Liu Shu, 2012) | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Marchetti, G: marchett@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Marchetti, G=rp01177 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 294496 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Shanghai, China | - |