All Outputs (2)

‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies (2014)
Journal Article
Feng, L. (2014). ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies. Transnational Cinemas, 5(2), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2014.959725

Stars are often associated with glamour and beauty, but in this paper I would like to question how the concept of “chou” (literally meaning ugliness) is embraced in contemporary Chinese cinema. The popularity of chouxing (ugly star) in the Chinese ci... Read More about ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies.

Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997 (2014)
Book Chapter
Feng, L. (2014). Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997. In East Asian Film Stars (113-127). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8

Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia. During his early screen career, Chow... Read More about Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997.