Author: Shuqin Cui
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: chinese, cinema, century, nation, lens, gender, women
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-03
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0824825322
ISBN-13: 9780824825324

Gender and nation have often served as narrative subjects and visual tropes in Chinese cinema. The intersections between the two that occur in cinematic representation, however, have received little critical attention. Women through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational feminism, Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been granted a "privileged visibility" o