Chinese Women's Cinema Through a Feminist Lens

Drawing on extensive research of 153 feature films by 65 female directors, this book examines the dislocation between Chinese women's cinema and Western feminist theories.

The author explores how local feminist discourses in China shape major feminist narratives in contemporary Chinese women's cinema and establishes "China as methodology" in Chinese cinema studies, offering interpretive paradigms rooted in China's history, culture and politics. The author introduces frameworks to decode Chin...