"This lucid and original book is the first dealing with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong. By eschewing the conventional – and foreign – ideas of gay and lesbian identity for a more protean range of possibilities under the rubric of 'queer,' Helen Hok-Sze Leung shows that Hong Kong's screen culture includes a much richer and deeper queer vein than many observers have supposed." – Chris Berry, co-author of China on Screen: Cinema and Nation
"There is nothing quite like Undercurrents currently available in the English language. Its archive – Hong Kong cultural productions including contemporary cinema, architecture, urban space, modern literature, icons from popular culture, and community-driven radio programming – is impressively wide-ranging and diverse. Its theoretical apparatus – bringing together queer theory and postcolonial studies – is equally remarkable. This is a beautifully conceived, crafted, and compelling book." – David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America
Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of "queer" to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the uncertainty of the territory's postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions.
Leung explores Hong Kong cultural productions, arguing that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an assistant professor in women's studies at Simon Fraser University.
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这本书最打动我的是它的人文关怀,它不仅仅停留在对理论和现象的冷峻剖析上,更深处是对个体生命体验的尊重和关注。作者在看似冰冷的学术框架下,始终保持着一种温暖的、充满共情的人性视角。它成功地将宏大的社会结构分析,与个体在结构中所经历的真实、细微的情感波动联系起来。这种张力——理性的分析与感性的叙事之间的张力——是这本书最迷人的地方。它让你在为作者的洞察力折服的同时,也对书中描绘的人物和情境产生了强烈的共鸣。它是一次思想上的远征,也是一次情感上的洗礼,最终抵达的是一种更为复杂和成熟的理解。这本书的价值,远超其学术范畴,它触及了我们作为社会一份子的存在困境与希望。
评分我必须承认,这本书的阅读门槛不低,但一旦跨越了最初的适应期,随之而来的收获是巨大的。作者在梳理和界定概念时,展现出惊人的清晰度和系统性。很多我过去模糊不清的理论节点,在这本书中得到了极其有力的支撑和界定。它就像一把精密的尺子,帮助我们量化和评估那些原本难以捉摸的文化力量。尤其是对一些边缘化叙事的挖掘和呈现,充满了同理心和学术上的批判力量,让人深思当代文化生产的权力结构。整本书的论证逻辑环环相扣,密不透风,体现了作者深厚的学养和对议题的长期投入。读完后,感觉自己的思维工具箱里多了一套全新的分析工具,对于理解当代社会文化动态,具有极强的指导意义。
评分读完这本书,我最大的感受是,作者真正做到了“言之有物”。它不是那种空泛的理论堆砌,而是紧密地扎根于具体的文化实践和历史现场。那种对日常生活的观察入微,对文化符号的解读独到,让人拍案叫绝。仿佛作者拥有了一双透视之眼,能轻易地看穿那些光鲜亮丽的外壳,直达其内部运作的逻辑。这本书的行文风格变化多端,时而如行云流水般流畅,将复杂的概念阐释得浅显易懂;时而又转为一种近乎诗意的表达,将学术的严谨与人文的关怀巧妙地融合在一起。这种叙事上的张弛有度,极大地提升了阅读体验。它成功地将晦涩的理论讨论,转化成了一场引人入胜的思想探险,让人迫不及待地想知道下一章会揭示出怎样的秘密。
评分这本书的叙事节奏掌握得非常高明,它没有采用那种平铺直叙的线性叙述,而是巧妙地运用了多重声音和不同时间维度的交织,构建了一个立体化的叙事场域。每次阅读,我都会在不同的历史片段和理论层面之间跳跃,这种非线性的结构反而更贴合现实的复杂性。它迫使读者积极参与到意义的建构中来,而不是被动接受既定的结论。其中对于某些关键历史节点的重构和批判性审视,尤其令人印象深刻,作者的立场鲜明而有力,展现出一种知识分子的担当。这本书的价值在于,它提供了一个全新的视角,去重新审视那些我们习以为常的文化现象,那种挑战权威、质疑既定叙事的勇气,是整本书最令人振奋的地方。
评分这本厚重的著作,光是翻开扉页,那种扑面而来的学术气息就让人感到一丝敬畏。作者的笔触细腻而富有穿透力,仿佛是一位经验老到的历史学家,带着严谨的考据精神,深入剖析了特定文化现象背后的深层结构。阅读过程中,我仿佛置身于一个由复杂的社会、政治和历史脉络交织而成的迷宫之中,每走一步,都能感受到那些潜藏在表象之下的张力与矛盾。那种对细节的执着,对文本的深挖,构建了一个极其扎实的分析框架。它不是那种轻松愉快的读物,更像是一次思维的攀登,需要读者投入极大的注意力和智力资源去跟上作者的论证步伐。我尤其欣赏作者在处理敏感议题时所展现出的那种近乎外科手术般的精准度,毫不含糊,直指核心,却又保持了必要的学理性距离。读完之后,你会感觉自己的认知地图被重新绘制了一遍,对某些既有观念产生了颠覆性的冲击,留下的回响是长久而深刻的。
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评分This is not only about queer culture in Hong Kong; through queer representations and interpretations of modern cinema, Leung presents us, in actuality, a reflection of the cultural identity that Hong Kong has been struggling with.
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评分This is not only about queer culture in Hong Kong; through queer representations and interpretations of modern cinema, Leung presents us, in actuality, a reflection of the cultural identity that Hong Kong has been struggling with.
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