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Shu-chin Tsui
Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Director of Asian Studies
Fall 2008
- Transnational Chinese Cinema (ASIAN 254)
- Transnational Chinese Cinema (ASIAN 254L1)
- Intermediate Independent Study in Asian Studies (ASIAN 291)
- Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Asian Studies (ASIAN 401)
- Advanced Chinese I (CHIN 307)
| Phone | (207) 725-3594 |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Department | ASIAN STUDIES |
| 2nd Title | Program Director |
| 2nd Department | ASIAN STUDIES |
| Work Location | 205 38 College Street |
| scui2@bowdoin.edu |
Education
Ph.D., Culture Studies Ann Arbor, MI The University of Michigan 1996
field of expertise: Chinese literature and cinema studies
M.A., American Culture The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Program in American Culture 1989
M.A., Chinese Literature The University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures 1987
B.A., English Xian Foreign Language Institute Xian, China
Department of English 1982
Selected Publications
Book
Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema, University of Hawaii Press, March 2003.
Read the introduction
(PDF)
Articles
"Kekexili: Moral Dilemma and a Man with a Camera," Chinese Films in Focus-2, ed. by Chris Berry, London: BFI Publishing [forthcoming].
"Negotiating In-Between: On New-Generation Filmmaking and Jia Zhangke's Films," Journal of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 18-2 (2006): 98-130 [http://mclc.osu.edu/jou/abstracts/cui.htm].
"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, May 2005.
Contributor, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, Routledge Press, January, 2005.
"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.
Read the table of contents and/or the introduction (PDF).
"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.
Review essay on Tani Barlow, ed. Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism, in Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, 2-1 (July 1998): 143-146.
"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: Bringing Underground Chinese Cinema to New Audiences
Academic Spotlight: Professor and Students Alike Changed by Summer Study in China