Peter Ho-sun Chan's He's a Woman, She's a Man

Lisa Odham Stokes

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• Published: May 2009
• Subject Listing: Film Studies, Asian Studies
• Bibliographic information: 144 pp., 5.5 x 7.5 in.
• Territorial rights: North American rights only
• Distributed for: Hong Kong University Press
• Series: The New Hong Kong Cinema Series
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This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an "ordinary" fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story development, the film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexuality, and the limits of male femininity. The book offers important background on comedic narrative structure in Cantonese opera and other traditional sources that have influenced Hong Kong cinema.

"A seductive textbook and a compelling title for pleasure reading." - Suzie S. F. Young, York University, Toronto

Lisa Odham Stokes teaches humanities and film at Seminole Community College in Florida. She is the author of The Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema and the co-author (with Michael Hoover) of City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema.