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    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.

    Primitive Passions
    Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
    A Face Drawn in Sand

    • A Face Drawn in Sand

      Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present

      • 232 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.3(10)Add rating

      Chow explores the intersection of leadership, innovation, and the humanities within contemporary Western universities, questioning the benefits and implications of current administrative discourses. Utilizing Foucault's concept of "outside," she critiques the biopolitics of literary studies and addresses issues such as race, sound, and self-entrepreneurship. Advocating for a nonutilitarian approach, she emphasizes the importance of processing diverse texts and forming viable arguments, ultimately urging a re-examination of knowledge production that values inquiry over predetermined answers.

      A Face Drawn in Sand

    • Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films

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      What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? This book explores these questions through contemporary Chinese directors.

      Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films

    • Primitive Passions

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      Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.

      Primitive Passions