Chinese Lesbian Cinema

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Chinese Lesbian Cinema is written by Liang Shi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0739188488 (ISBN 10) and 9780739188484 (ISBN 13).

The emergence of lesbian film in the first decade of the twenty-first century symbolizes a breakthrough through the creation of new cinema that opens up a space that was not previously available or accessible in China. These motion pictures present a new breed of characters—namely, lesbians—as well as a new sexual subject on the screen for the first time in the history of Chinese cinema. Blending historicist and comparative approaches, this book begins with a critical genealogy of Chinese homosexual traditions in the first two chapters. This strategy allows the author to examine a number of films individually through contextualizing their historical and cultural articulations and interpretations through the remainder of the book.