Shu-chin Tsui

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Phone 725-3594
Title Associate Professor
Department Asian Studies
Work Location 205 38 College Street
E-Mail scui2@bowdoin.edu
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Spring 2012

  • Cultural Topics in Contemporary China (ASIAN 252)
  • Advanced Chinese II (CHIN 308)
  • COLLABORATIVE STUDY (CHIN 405)

Education

Ph.D., Cinema and Culture Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1996
Fields of expertise: Cinema Studies, Culture Studies & Chinese literature

Dissertation: "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gender and Representation in
Chinese Cinema"
Professor Frank E. Beaver, chair

M.A., American Culture
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Program in American Culture, 1989

M.A., Chinese Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, 1987

B.A., English
Xi'an University of Foreign Language Studies
Xian, China
Department of English, 1982

Selected Publications

Book

women through the lensWomen Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema, University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
Read the introductionPDF (PDF)

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

"The Return of the Repressed: Masculinity and Sexuality
Reconsidered" in A Companion to Chinese Cinema,
ed. by Yingjin Zhang, Blackwell Publishing
(forthcoming).

"The Search for Female Sexuality and the Negotiation with Feminism:
Li Yu's Film Trilogy" in Engendering Chinese Cinema, ed. by Lingzhen Wang
University of Cambridge (forthcoming).

"Alternative Visions and Representation: Independent Documentary Filmmaking
in Contemporary China" Journal of Documentary Cinema 4:1 (February) 2010.

"Kekexili: Moral Dilemma and a Man with a Camera," Chinese Films in Focus-2,
ed. by Chris Berry, London: BFI Publishing, 2008.

"Negotiating In-Between: On New-Generation Filmmaking and
Jia Zhangke's Films," Journal of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,
18-2 (2006): 98-130, reprinted in Chinese Cinema after a Century:
The Interplay of Art, Politics and Commerce,
Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 2010.

"Ning Ying's Beijing Trilogy: Cinematic Configuration of Age,
Class and Sexuality" in The Urban Generation:
Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the 21st Century,
(Duke University Press, 2006): 241-263.

"Raise the Red Lantern: Cinematic Orient and Female Conflict" in Film Analysis:
A Norton Reader, W.W. Norton & Company, 2005: 830-849.

Contributor, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture,
Routledge Press, 2005.

contemporary chinese culture  film analysis   chinese language film

"Walking from the Margins and Outside the System: Independent Film Directors in Contemporary China," Post Script 20-2 (Winter/Spring 2001): 77-93, reprinted in Chinese Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics, University of Hawaii Press: 2005.
Read the table of contentsPDF and/or the introductionPDF (PDF).

hong kong cinema"Stanley Kwan's Center Stage: The (Im)possible Engagement between Feminism and Postmodernism," Cinema Journal 39-4 (Summer 2000): 60-80, reprinted in Between Home and World: A Reader in Hong Kong Cinema, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Contributor (30 entries on Fifth-generation films),
Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, Routledge Press, 1998.

transitional chinese cinema"Gendered Perspectives: The Construction of Subjectivity
and Sexuality in Ju Dou," in Sheldon H. Lu, ed.
Transnational Chinese Cinema:
Identity, Nationhood, Gender
University of Hawaii Press, 1997, 303-330.

"Desire in Difference: Female Voice and Point of View in Army Nurse" Annual of Film and Literature, Vol. II (Summer 1996): 63-72.

Links

Academic Spotlight: Bowdoin Professor Seeks Out Experimental Chinese Women Artists

Academic Spotlight: Bringing Underground Chinese Cinema to New Audiences

Academic Spotlight: Professor and Students Alike Changed by Summer Study in China

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