Backward glances: contemporary Chinese cultures and the female homoerotic imaginary

Acknowledgments ix Note on Translations and Transliterations xi Introduction: Love and Remembrance 1 1. Tragic Romance: The Chinese Going-In Story 29 2. Voluble Ellipsis: Second-Wave Schoolgirl Romance in Taiwan and Hong Kong 49 3. Postsocialist Melancholia: Blue Green Sky 75 4. No Future: Tomboy Melodrama 93 5. Television as Public Mourning: Taiwan's Sad Young Women 118 6. Critical Presentism: New Chinese Lesbian Cinema 147 Epilogue 180 Appendix: Interview with Shi Tou 187 Character List 199 Notes 205 Filmography 255 Selected Bibliography 259 Index 281