The Female Body China: Rey Chow’s Reflexive Take of the Diasporic Perspectives
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Yeh, Chen-Ling
Abstract
Borned as a woman in Hong Kong and having research career in the United States, Rey Chow occupies a unique position in Chinese Study. Her background has made her discussion differ from other scholars in the Unites States or in China. Rey Chow pointed out that Hong Kong was seen neither Chinese nor Western, but that narrowed the possibility of Chinese interpretations. Rey Chow’s Hong Kong identity makes her research can be an “own analysis”. Also, being the colonized people, her study can be a double critique to China and to England. Through the colonial education, she can stand in the position of the West, and see China as an “other”. In Rey Chow’s opinion, Hong Kong can be Chinese and Western.
Through China-West relation and China- Hong Kong relation, Rey Chow has observed that China vacillates between female and male position. In the mean time, Rey Chow practices strategic essentialism of Spivak by establishment of Hong Kong essence, making China concept cannot be fixed. The interpretations of China which the China fifth-generation directors reveal by their movies mean that all the Chinese interpretations can be part of China concept. Rey Chow insists that China is neither a fixed concept nor having a fixed content. The China concept is all about the researchers, the knowledge behind the researchers and the objects.
Subjects
Diaspora
Female
Movie
Rey Chow
Translation
Hong Kong
Type
thesis
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