Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres

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vii Esther M. K. CHEUNG is currently Chair of the Department of Comparative LiteratureandDirectoroftheCenterfortheStudyofGlobalizationandCultures at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) and In Pursuit of Independent Visions in Hong Kong Cinema (Joint Publishing, 2010), as well as co-editor of Between Home and World: A Reader in Hong Kong Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2004). Hsiu-Chuang Deppman is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. Her research interests include the history of cinema, film adaptations, documentaries, and modern Chinese fiction. She is the author of Adapted for the Screen: the Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010). She has published widely on Chinese film and literature, most recently in TV China, positions: east asia cultures critique, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Nicole Huang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Women, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s (Brill, 2005) and Writing Against the Turmoil: Eileen Chang and Popular Culture in Occupied Shanghai (Shanghai, 2010). She is also the co-editor of Written on Water: A Collection of Essays by Eileen Chang (Columbia University Press, 2005). Her current research deals with visual culture and daily practice in late Mao China. Leo Ou-fan Lee is currently Wei Lun Professor of Humanities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of, among other books in both English and Chinese, Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture Notes on Contributors viii Notes on Contributors in China, 1930–1945 (Harvard University Press, 1999). His wide-ranging interests include literature, film, music, and cultural criticism. Jessica Tsui Yan Li is a Faculty Associate at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University. Her research areas are on modern Chinese literature and film and Asian North American studies. Her publications include “SelfTranslation /Rewriting: The Female Body in Eileen Chang’s ‘Jinsuo ji,’ The Rouge of the North, Yuannü and ‘The Golden Cangue’” in Neohelicon (37.2, 2010) and “The Politics of Self-Translation: Eileen Chang” in Perspectives: Studies in Translatology (14.2, 2006). She is currently working on a book manuscript on Eileen Chang’s self-translation. Kam Louie is Dean of Faculty of Arts and MB Lee Professor of Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. His diverse research interests cover interdisciplinarystudiesoflanguage,literature,history,andphilosophyinmodern China. Recent publications include Theorising Chinese Masculinity (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and edited books The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image (Hong Kong University Press, 2010). Gina Marchetti is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Her books include Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (University of California Press, 1993) and From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006), as well as several coedited volumes—most recently, Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier (Hong Kong University Press, 2011). Laikwan Pang is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and she researches on a wide range of topics related to China, cinema, and modernity . She is the author of, among others, Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932–37 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007), and Creativity and Its Discontents: China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Right Offenses (Duke University Press, forthcoming). Tze-lan Deborah Sang is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon. She is Notes on Contributors ix the author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and co-editor of Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (Routledge, forthcoming). Her current research projects include a study on Sinophone documentary and a book on popular fiction and urban culture in early-twentieth-century China. Shuang Shen teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature and...