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Cinema of Displaced Identity

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In this chapter Rosa Fong gives an account of her work as a writer, producer, and director of films. Throughout the chapter she situates herself as a British Chinese filmmaker but also identifies as British East Asian, and she explores how that has informed her work. She draws on key debates on identity, representation, hybridity, migrancy, and postcolonialism to frame her work. She also describes the stylistic approaches she has used in her films and how she has utilized genre as a way to inflect notions of hybridity and otherness.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Blue Funnel line Britain, Outbound passenger list, 1890–1960.

  2. 2.

    Clansmanship is strong in southern Chinese culture and refers to a group of Chinese people with a shared surname and from the same ancestral village.

  3. 3.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/singing_ringing_tree.shtml.

  4. 4.

    https://eastgermancinema.com/2011/08/03/the-singing-ringing-tree/.

  5. 5.

    China in Britain, Myths and Realities, 31 May 2012, London, co-organized by Dr Anne Wichard, University of Westminster, and Dr Diana Yeh, Birkbeck College, University of London.

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    A pejorative term used for people of East Asian descent.

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    Diana Yeh

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Fong, R. (2018). Cinema of Displaced Identity. In: Thorpe, A., Yeh, D. (eds) Contesting British Chinese Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71159-1_10

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