The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity

中国风情：现代海外华裔女性形象

Olivia Khoo

October 2007｜226pp., 6" x 9", 7 ｜English

TransAsia: Screen Cultures

"The Chinese Exotic is a fascinating panoramic study of new representations of Chineseness – in film, fashion, food, as well as literature and pop culture – that transcend the tired hierarchies of East and West, tracing the cultural emergence of an empowered, passionate and thoroughly modern diasporic Chinese femininity."

— Ien Ang, Australian Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellow, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, author of On Not Speaking Chinese (2001)

"With great sensitivity and originality, Olivia Khoo shows us how to read popular films, female movie stars, quotidian cultural artifacts, novels, and other 'Chinese exotic' phenomena in contemporary global circulation. To the representational politics of what she terms diaspora China, she has brought a notably fresh level of analytical finesse and imagination."

— Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University, author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007)

内容简介：

    《中国风情》探讨自上世纪20 年代末起，从亚太地区现代性冒起的女性华人移民的新形象。通过文化制造物如电影、流行小说、食物和时尚文化的分析，本书挑战当代文化政治中，以等同原始主义概念的内地视角去定义中国女性，这样的主导倾向。相反，书中主张以异国情调观念下，激进的重新配置，作为理解这些新形象的框架。本研究提出对华人移民与性别之间关系的重要问题。《中国风情》提供了一个适时评论，介入女性华人移民当前的视觉化。本书争辩，这些影像的分析可以告知，在当代全球化的背景下，与中国、华人移民、亚洲和西方的关系，并反过来以这些新的交叉点来解释女性华人移民现代定义的复杂性。

作者简介：

Olivia Khoo，新南威尔士大学的电影系讲师。她发表了大量关于亚洲电影和媒体的文章。