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Stanley Kwan's Center Stage: The (Im)possible Engagement between Feminism and Postmodernism
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 39, Number 4, Summer 2000
- pp. 60-80
- 10.1353/cj.2000.0012
- Article
- Additional Information
Analysis of the star image of Ruan Lingyu, constructed in the early Chinese films of the 1930s and rearticulated in Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1992), demonstrates the contradictions between feminism and postmodernism. In addition, when placed in the context of Hong Kong's return to China, the fragmented female image reveals a concern for the uncertain relations between history and representation.