Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Sex and the Postcolonial City

2 Between Girls

3 Trans Formations

4 In Queer Memory

5 Do It Yourself

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Discography

Index

Promotional Information

The first English-language book to deal with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong, Undercurrents examines the city’s screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period.

About the Author

Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an assistant professor in women’s studies at Simon Fraser University.

Reviews

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*