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Women Through the Lens

Gender and Nation in a Century

of Chinese Cinema

S huqin C ui

Women Through

the Lens

Women Through

the Lens

GENDER AND NATION

IN A CENTURY OF CHINESE CINEMA

Shuqin Cui

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS

HONOLULU

Printed in the United States of America

08 07 06 05 04 03

6 5 4 3 2 1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cui, Shuqin.

Women through the lens : gender and nation in a century of Chinese cinema / Shuqin

Cui.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8248-2532-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Motion pictures—China—History.

2. Women in motion pictures.

3. Sex role in

motion pictures. I. Title.

PN1993.5.C4 C85 2003

791.43'0951—dc21

2002010919

Chapters 2 and 6 of the present work appeared in slightly

different versions as noted below. “Stanley Kwan’s Center Stage:

The (Im)possible Engagement between Feminism and Postmodernism,” by

Shuqin Cui, from Cinema Journal 39:4, pp. 60–80,

and “Gendered Perspective: The Construction and Representation

of Subjectivity and Sexuality in Ju Dou ,” by Shuqin Cui, in

Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender,

Illustrations reprinted by permission of

the China Film Archive, Beijing.

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