From the transnational to the Sinophone: lesbian representations in Chinese-language films.
This article theorizes global lesbian cinema in Chinese-language films through regionalism, diaspora studies, and Sinophone studies. Through an inter-regional analysis of Butterfly (Yan Yan Mak, 2004, Hong Kong) and diasporic and Sinophone readings of Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2005, USA), I argue that Mak's film illustrates a Hong Kong regional retranslation of a Taiwanese lesbian story, which complicates any claim to a stable "Chinese" identity. Finally, Wu's representation of lesbianism also troubles the politics of Chineseness by pointing to the ways diasporic reproduction of "community" works through the disciplining of other non-normative sexualities.
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Alvin Ka Hin
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Wong
D044466:Asian People; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures; D012933:Social Identification; D013624:Taiwan