Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema

Zhen Zhang teaches and directs the Asian Film and Media Initiative at the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her previous publications include An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1895-1937, The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the 21st Century, DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film (co-editor). She is the lead editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas.

• Acknowledgement Introduction Projecting Sinophone Cine-feminisms: Towards an Intimate-Public Commons 1. Migrating Hearts: Sinophone Geographies of Sylvia Chang’s “Woman’s Film” 2. Floating Light and Shadows: Huang Yu-shan’s Chronicles of Modern Taiwan 3. From Sidewalk Realism to Spectral Romance: Yang Lina’s Post-Socialist Beijing and Beyond 4. Eggs, Stones, and Stretch Marks: Haptic Visuality and Tactile Resistance in Huang Ji’s Personal Cinema 5. “Spicy-painful” Theater of History: Wen Hui’s Documentary Dance with Third Grandmother 6. In Praise of Trans-Asian Sisterhood: Labor, Love and Homecoming in Jasmine Ching-hui Lee’s Money and Honey 7. “We Are Alive”: Minor Transnationalism and Yau Ching’s Queer Experimental Filmmaking 8. Outcries and Whispers: Digital Political Mimesis and Radical Feminist Documentary Epilogue: At Home in the World Chinese Glossary Bibliography Filmography List of Figures Index