TY - BOOK ID - 77924815 TI - Warrior women : gender, race, and the transnational Chinese action star PY - 2014 SN - 1438452500 9781438452500 9781438452494 1438452497 PB - Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women heroes in motion pictures. KW - Action and adventure films KW - Action-adventure films KW - Action cinema KW - Action films KW - Action movies KW - Adventure and action films KW - Adventure films KW - Adventure movies KW - Motion pictures KW - Swashbuckler films UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77924815 AB - Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies CategoryBronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues CategoryWinnerof the 2015 Emily Toth Award presented by the Popular Culture Association & American Culture AssociationWarrior Women considers the significance of Chinese female action stars in martial arts films produced across a range of national and transnational contexts. Lisa Funnell examines the impact of the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule on the representation of Chinese identities—Hong Kong Chinese, mainland Chinese, Chinese American, Chinese Canadian—in action films produced domestically in Hong Kong and, increasingly, in cooperation with mainland China and Hollywood. Hong Kong cinema has offered space for the development of transnational Chinese screen identities that challenge the racial stereotypes historically associated with the Asian female body in the West. The ethnic/national differentiation of transnational Chinese female stars—such as Pei Pei Cheng, Charlene Choi, Gong Li, Lucy Liu, Shu Qi, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi—is considered part of the ongoing negotiation of social, cultural, and geopolitical identities in the Chinese-speaking world. ER -