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  1. Transpacific Attachments
    Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
    Author: Wong, Lily
    Published: [2019]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their... more

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    The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures.Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media-from literature to film to new media-that have circulated within the United States, China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present. Wong explores Asian American writers' articulation of transnational belonging; early Hollywood's depiction of Chinese women as parasitic prostitutes and Chinese cinema's reframing the figure as a call for reform; Cold War-era use of prostitute and courtesan metaphors to question nationalist narratives and heteronormativity; and images of immigrant brides against the backdrop of neoliberalism and the flows of transnational capital. She focuses on the transpacific networks that reconfigure Chineseness, complicating a diasporic framework of cultural authenticity. While imaginations of a global community have long been mobilized through romantic, erotic, and gendered representations, Wong stresses the significant role sex work plays in the constant restructuring of social relations. "Chineseness," the figure of the sex worker shows, is an affective product as much as an ethnic or cultural signifier

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231544887
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    Series: Global Chinese Culture
    Subjects: Chinese in literature; Chinese in motion pictures; Prostitutes in literature; Prostitutes in motion pictures; Prostituierte <Motiv>; Medien; Chinesin <Motiv>; Gruppenidentität
    Scope: 1 online resource, 30 b&w photographs
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  2. Transpacific Attachments
    Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
    Author: Wong, Lily
    Published: [2019]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their... more

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    The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures.Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media-from literature to film to new media-that have circulated within the United States, China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present. Wong explores Asian American writers' articulation of transnational belonging; early Hollywood's depiction of Chinese women as parasitic prostitutes and Chinese cinema's reframing the figure as a call for reform; Cold War-era use of prostitute and courtesan metaphors to question nationalist narratives and heteronormativity; and images of immigrant brides against the backdrop of neoliberalism and the flows of transnational capital. She focuses on the transpacific networks that reconfigure Chineseness, complicating a diasporic framework of cultural authenticity. While imaginations of a global community have long been mobilized through romantic, erotic, and gendered representations, Wong stresses the significant role sex work plays in the constant restructuring of social relations. "Chineseness," the figure of the sex worker shows, is an affective product as much as an ethnic or cultural signifier

     

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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231544887
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    Series: Global Chinese Culture
    Subjects: Chinese in literature; Chinese in motion pictures; Prostitutes in literature; Prostitutes in motion pictures; Prostituierte <Motiv>; Medien; Chinesin <Motiv>; Gruppenidentität
    Scope: 1 online resource, 30 b&w photographs
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  3. Transpacific attachments
    sex work, media networks, and affective histories of chineseness
    Author: Wong, Lily
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Transpacific Attachments identifies the formation of a collective sense of Chinese identity through representations of the prostitute figure in popular media circulated among the U.S., China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth... more

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    "Transpacific Attachments identifies the formation of a collective sense of Chinese identity through representations of the prostitute figure in popular media circulated among the U.S., China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present day. Often portrayed as a "desired other," the Chinese prostitute figure has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. The book discusses, for instance, how early Hollywood's depiction of Chinese women as parasitic prostitutes, mobilized in part by the Page Act of 1875, reflect discourses of biological threat that justified the persecution of Chinese immigrants and the United States' expansion abroad. Distributed across the Pacific, this popular narrative which places Chinese prostitutes as stand-ins for a "diseased Chinese race" provoked the rise of a Chinese National Cinema that reframed the prostitute figure into a symbol for reform in the 1930s. The Chinese prostitute figure not only serves as the discursive surface on which Hollywood and the Chinese film industry negotiate competing ideologies, but she functions also as a medium through which affective intensities are motivated into collective action. By historicizing the ways the Chinese prostitute figure is remade through transpacific media networks...from literature to film to new media...Lily Wong shows how the figure both reflects and rallies feelings that form collective identities, such as "Chineseness," that are often overlooked under national, ethnic, linguistic-centered scopes"...

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780231183383
    Series: Global Chinese culture
    Subjects: Prostitutes in motion pictures; Prostitutes in literature; Chinese in motion pictures; Chinese in literature; National characteristics, Chinese; Chinesin <Motiv>; Prostituierte <Motiv>; Medien; Gruppenidentität
    Scope: xiv, 229 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. Transpacific attachments
    sex work, media networks, and affective histories of Chineseness
    Author: Wong, Lily
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Transpacific Attachments identifies the formation of a collective sense of Chinese identity through representations of the prostitute figure in popular media circulated among the U.S., China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth... more

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    "Transpacific Attachments identifies the formation of a collective sense of Chinese identity through representations of the prostitute figure in popular media circulated among the U.S., China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present day. Often portrayed as a "desired other," the Chinese prostitute figure has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. The book discusses, for instance, how early Hollywood's depiction of Chinese women as parasitic prostitutes, mobilized in part by the Page Act of 1875, reflect discourses of biological threat that justified the persecution of Chinese immigrants and the United States' expansion abroad. Distributed across the Pacific, this popular narrative which places Chinese prostitutes as stand-ins for a "diseased Chinese race" provoked the rise of a Chinese National Cinema that reframed the prostitute figure into a symbol for reform in the 1930s. The Chinese prostitute figure not only serves as the discursive surface on which Hollywood and the Chinese film industry negotiate competing ideologies, but she functions also as a medium through which affective intensities are motivated into collective action. By historicizing the ways the Chinese prostitute figure is remade through transpacific media networks--from literature to film to new media--Lily Wong shows how the figure both reflects and rallies feelings that form collective identities, such as "Chineseness," that are often overlooked under national, ethnic, linguistic-centered scopes"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231183383
    Series: Global Chinese culture
    Subjects: Prostitutes in motion pictures; Prostitutes in literature; Chinese in motion pictures; Chinese in literature; National characteristics, Chinese
    Scope: xiv, 229 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 199-215

    Introduction: sex work, media networks, and transpacific histories of affect -- Part I: Pacific crossings in the early twentieth-century -- Desiring across the Pacific: transnational contact in early Twentieth century Asian/American literature -- Over my dead body: melodramatic crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan Lingyu -- Part II: Sinophonic liaisons during the Cold War -- Erotic liaisons: Sinophonic queering of the Shaw Brothers' Chinese dream -- Offense to the ear: hearing the sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe's Rose, Rose, I love you -- Part III: Dwelling desires and the neoliberal order -- Dwelling: affective labor and reordered kinships in The fourth portrait and Seeking Asian female -- Coda: what dwells

  5. Transpacific attachments
    sex work, media networks, and affective histories of Chineseness
    Author: Wong, Lily
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Transpacific Attachments identifies the formation of a collective sense of Chinese identity through representations of the prostitute figure in popular media circulated among the U.S., China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth... more

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    "Transpacific Attachments identifies the formation of a collective sense of Chinese identity through representations of the prostitute figure in popular media circulated among the U.S., China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present day. Often portrayed as a "desired other," the Chinese prostitute figure has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. The book discusses, for instance, how early Hollywood's depiction of Chinese women as parasitic prostitutes, mobilized in part by the Page Act of 1875, reflect discourses of biological threat that justified the persecution of Chinese immigrants and the United States' expansion abroad. Distributed across the Pacific, this popular narrative which places Chinese prostitutes as stand-ins for a "diseased Chinese race" provoked the rise of a Chinese National Cinema that reframed the prostitute figure into a symbol for reform in the 1930s. The Chinese prostitute figure not only serves as the discursive surface on which Hollywood and the Chinese film industry negotiate competing ideologies, but she functions also as a medium through which affective intensities are motivated into collective action. By historicizing the ways the Chinese prostitute figure is remade through transpacific media networks--from literature to film to new media--Lily Wong shows how the figure both reflects and rallies feelings that form collective identities, such as "Chineseness," that are often overlooked under national, ethnic, linguistic-centered scopes"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231183383
    Series: Global Chinese culture
    Subjects: Prostitutes in motion pictures; Prostitutes in literature; Chinese in motion pictures; Chinese in literature; National characteristics, Chinese
    Scope: xiv, 229 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 199-215

    Introduction: sex work, media networks, and transpacific histories of affect -- Part I: Pacific crossings in the early twentieth-century -- Desiring across the Pacific: transnational contact in early Twentieth century Asian/American literature -- Over my dead body: melodramatic crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan Lingyu -- Part II: Sinophonic liaisons during the Cold War -- Erotic liaisons: Sinophonic queering of the Shaw Brothers' Chinese dream -- Offense to the ear: hearing the sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe's Rose, Rose, I love you -- Part III: Dwelling desires and the neoliberal order -- Dwelling: affective labor and reordered kinships in The fourth portrait and Seeking Asian female -- Coda: what dwells