Transpacific attachments : sex work, media networks, and affective histories of Chineseness /
Transpacific Attachments identifies the formation of a collective sense of Chinese identity through representations of the prostitute figure in popular media circulated among the U.S., China and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present day. Often portrayed as a "des...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Global Chinese culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : sex work, media networks, and transpacific histories of affect
- Desiring across the Pacific : transnational contact in early twentieth century Asian/American literature
- Over my dead body : melodramatic crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan Lingyu
- Erotic liaisons : sinophonic queering of the Shaw Brothers' Chinese dream
- Offense to the ear : hearing the sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe's Rose, Rose, I love you
- Dwelling : affective labor and reordered kinships in The fourth portrait and Seeking Asian female
- Coda : what dwells.