The Rey Chow Reader

Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the sa...

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Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they compel us to think through the ethical and political ramifications of our academic, epistemic, and cultural practices. This anthology - the first to collect key moments in Chow's engaging thought - provides readers with an ideal introduction to some of her most forceful theoretical explorations. Organized into two sections, each of which begins with a brief statement designed to establish linkages among various discursive fields through Chow's writings, the anthology also contains an extensive Editor's Introduction, which situates Chow's work in the context of contemporary critical debates. For all those pursuing transnational cultural theory and cultural studies, this book is an essential resource.

Paul Bowman teaches cultural studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies, Deconstructing Popular Culture, and Theorizing Bruce Lee. He is also the editor of several books and journal issues, including The Truth of Žižek, Reading Rancière, and, most recently, special issues of the journals Social Semiotics and Postcolonial Studies, foc...

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Paul Bowman teaches cultural studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies, Deconstructing Popular Culture, and Theorizing Bruce Lee. He is also the editor of several books and journal issues, including The Truth of Žižek, Reading Rancière, and, most recently, special issues of the journals Social Semiotics and Postcolonial Studies, focusing on the work of Rey Chow.

Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity
1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, by Alterity
Seeing Is Destroying
The World Becomes Virtual
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Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity
1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, by Alterity
Seeing Is Destroying
The World Becomes Virtual
The Orbit of Self and Other
From Atomic Bombs to Area Studies
2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation
3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions
Orientalism and East Asia: The Persistence of a Scholarly Tradition
Sanctifying the "Subaltern": The Productivity of White Guilt
Tactics of Intervention
The Chinese Lesson
4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation
The Inevitability of Stereotypes in Cross-Ethnic Representation
5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by Miscegenation
Race and the Problem of Admittance
Community Formation and Sexual Difference: A Double Theoretical Discourse
What Does the Woman of Color Want?
The Force of Miscegenation
Community Building Among Theorists of Postcoloniality
6. When Whiteness Feminizes . . . : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic
Is "Woman" a Woman, by a Man
Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics
7. Film and Cultural Identity
8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship
9. The Dream of a Butterfly
"East Is East and West Is West, by and Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet"
"The Beauty . . . of Her Death. It’s a . . . Pure Sacrifice"
The Force of Butterfly; or, by the "Oriental Woman" as Phallus
"Under the Robes, by Beneath Everything
"It’s Not the Story; It’s the Music"
Madame Butterfly, by C’est Moi
Coda: New Questions for Cultural Difference and Identity
10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World
The Primacy of To-Be-Looked-At-ness
Translation and the Problem of Origins
Translation as "Cultural Resistance"
The "Third Term"
Weakness, by Fluidity
The Light of the Arcade
11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty Years Later
Coda
12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Introduction
Highlights of a Western Discipline
Image, by Time
Defining the Sentimental in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Cinema
13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, by a Different Type of Migration
Altruistic Fictions in China’s Happy Times
How to Add Back a Subtracted Child? The Transmutation and Abjection of Human Labor in Not One Less
Notes
Index
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