Tang Wei
Sex, the City and the Scapegoat in Lust, Caution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (0000-0001-9435-7905, RMIT University and Honorary, University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 46-68 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276410372238 |
| OpenAlex | W1915306813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article discusses the Tang Wei incident, which evolved across the first half of 2008, during the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Tang Wei is a Chinese actress whose breakthrough role in Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution caused a sensation amongst Chinese audiences. The nudity and sex scenes in the film were explicit, and as such challenged accepted norms in film content. This aspect of the film, combined with the characterization of a national traitor as a heroine, caused deep concern among some parties involved in film regulation and censorship. The argument presented here is that Tang Wei, who was singled out for criticism and upon whom travel and work restraints were placed in the aftermath of the film's release, was made a scapegoat for the disgust experienced by a masculinist political class when faced with female dissent and sexuality
Advertising · Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Beijing · Censorship · China · Criticism · Disgust · Human sexuality · Immorality · Literature · Lust · Media studies · Morality · Political science · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Reinterpretation · Scapegoat · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |