Negotiating identity in the diasporic space
Transnational Chinese cinema and Chinese Americans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12343217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Q Han (0000-0003-1915-3317, ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-238 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Continuum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10304312.2017.1301380 |
| OpenAlex | W2596462266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
Within the field of Asian American studies, there has been an abundance of research on the cinematic representation of Chinese Americans in association with identity. While one type of study primarily focuses on the Orientalist discourse and racial politics in the Hollywood films, another approach highlights the production and distribution of Asian American independent media. Taking the representation of Chinese American families in transnational Chinese cinema as a point of departure, this article adopts a narrative analysis approach to illustrate the re-articulation of Chinese cultural identity. Following the premise that experience is pertaining to the construction of the identity of Chinese immigrants, four kinds of experiences are categorized – historical, educational, family and immigration. Representative characters are chosen as reference points from four films: Pushing Hands (Ang Lee 1992), The Guasha Treatment (Zheng Xiaolong 2001), Saving Face (Alice Wu 2004) and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Wayne Wang 2007). The disaporic subjects demonstrate how Chinese cultural identity has been shaped by various experiences
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Articulation (sociology · China · Chinese americans · Ethnic group · Face (sociological concept · Hollywood · Identity (music · Identity negotiation · Immigration · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Narrative · Negotiation · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law
Re-dissecting Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from the Perspectives of Cognition, Translation and Reconfiguration of Culture
Cultural bridges in film
‘Falling leaves return to their roots’? The reception of Chinese blockbusters by Chinese university students in New Zealand
Decoding Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Digital media and identity construction
Rewriting Chineseness
Strangers from a different shore
Unraveling the "model minority" stereotype
Women, autobiography, theory
The melodramatic imagination
Babel and Babylon
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
A Companion to Chinese Cinema
American Cultural Studies
The Asian American Educational Experience
Reading Asian American Literature
Asian Immigration to the United States
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |