Warrior Women
eBook - ePub

Warrior Women

Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Warrior Women

Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star

About this book

Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category
Bronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues Category
Winnerof the 2015 Emily Toth Award presented by the Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Warrior Women considers the significance of Chinese female action stars in martial arts films produced across a range of national and transnational contexts. Lisa Funnell examines the impact of the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule on the representation of Chinese identities—Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, Chinese American, Chinese Canadian—in action films produced domestically in Hong Kong and, increasingly, in cooperation with mainland China and Hollywood. Hong Kong cinema has offered space for the development of transnational Chinese screen identities that challenge the racial stereotypes historically associated with the Asian female body in the West. The ethnic/national differentiation of transnational Chinese female stars—such as Pei Pei Cheng, Charlene Choi, Gong Li, Lucy Liu, Shu Qi, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi—is considered part of the ongoing negotiation of social, cultural, and geopolitical identities in the Chinese-speaking world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Hong Kong–Hollywood Connections
  8. 2. Transnational Chinese Mothers: The Heroic Identities of Michelle Yeoh and Pei Pei Cheng
  9. 3. Intermedial Stars: Hong Kong Warrior Women in Post-1997 Cinema
  10. 4. Chinese Women and the Tropes of Modern China: The Transnational Appeal of Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi
  11. 5. Pan-Pacific Connections: Chinese American Warrior Women in Post-1997 Hong Kong
  12. 6. Transnational Integration: Chinese Canadian Warrior Women in Post-1997 Hong Kong
  13. 7. The Influence of Hong Kong in Hollywood: The Asianization of American Warrior Women
  14. Conclusion: Transnational Chinese Warrior Women
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Filmography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover