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Brings together texts and cross-cultural experiences of modern Chinese travelers, migrants, and diasporic Chinese in a number of global locations. This book illustrates how movements across cultures have shaped the ways in which twentieth-century China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented.

Proposes both an empirical and a conceptual history: on one hand, a descriptive survey of popular and academic writings on and by Filipino male homosexuals, and on the other, a genealogy of discourses and performativities of male homosexuality - and the bakla and or gay identity that they effectively materialized - in urban Philippines.

The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with the newspapers printed in the European Factories of Canton in the 1820s and ends with the Communist revolution in 1949. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the future of China and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over the revolution.

A study on the topic of male same-sex relations in China during the early twentieth century, illuminating male same-sex relations in many sites. It documents how nationalism and colonial modernity reconfigured Chinese discourses on sex between men in the early twentieth century.

Compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures. This book includes essays that highlight common themes including technology, digital media, and adolescent audience sensibilities in many Asian horror films.

This tragic coming-of-age story follows three disillusioned local youths struggling to navigate Hong Kong public housing projects and late adolescence amid violent crime, gang pressure, and broken homes. Shot on a very low budget, the film marked the beginning of Chan's career as an independent film director.

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This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures.

Yuen Woo PingAa's kung fu comedy based on the legendary female character Wing Chun is a landmark of action choreography and heroic womanhood in Chinese cinema, offering a gender imaginary rooted in Daoist and Buddhist thought. This is the first in-depth study of the work of Yuen Woo Ping, who achieved international recognition as an action choreographer of films such as The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Quentin TarantinoAa's Kill...

Tells the story of the Chinese guerrilla forces who harassed the Japanese in the World War II period of occupation, and played a crucial part in the escapes from Hong Kong's prisoner of war camps and in rescuing Allied airmen. This book recounts how the leaders of the East River Column faired in the period up to and after the Communist victory.

This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an "ordinary" fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story development, the film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexuality, and the limits of male femininity.

The film Bullet in the Head functions both as an apocalyptic melodrama and as an allegory of fears concerning the implications of the Tiananmen Square incident for Hong Kong residents. This book argues for its central importance as a major work of contemporary Hong Kong cinema.

A collection of personal essays on the author's early life journeys in Portuguese Macau and British Hong Kong. It depicts many humorous and painful episodes navigating family politics and her inter cultural pilgrimages from adolescent romances to professional life.

Engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities. This book situates diasporic agency as an historical phenomenon with far-reaching political and social implications for both home and host societies and as a major site of contemporary cultural developments.

Engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities. This work explores the multitude of resurfacing histories of Chinese migrant communities and integrates this knowledge with debates on historiographic representation, multiple modernities, transnationalism and globalization.

In this volume, dedicated to the memory of Hong Kong University students, faculty and members of the Court who lost their lives as a result of hostilities in the Far East during 1941-1945, we ask what happened to the University during those years of Japanese occupation when there was only the shell of a campus left standing on Pokfulam Road.

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