Rey Chow

Rey Chow is a Chinese-American cultural critic whose work delves into 20th-century Chinese fiction and film, postcolonial theory, and the critique of visual culture. Her writing challenges fundamental assumptions within both academic and public discourse concerning ethnic and cultural identity, highlighting problematic representations of non-Western cultures and minorities. Chow primarily explores narrative and visual forms through an interdisciplinary lens, examining their intersections with modernity, sexuality, and postcoloniality. Her current research focuses on the legacies of poststructuralist theory, the politics of language as a postcolonial phenomenon, and evolving paradigms of knowledge and lived experience in the digital age.