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Rey Chow

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Rey Chow is a Chinese-American cultural critic, specializing in 20th-century Chinese fiction and film and postcolonial theory. Educated in Hong Kong and the United States, she has taught at several major American universities, including Brown University. Chow is currently Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University.

Chow's writing challenges assumptions in many different scholarly conversations including those about literature, film, visual media, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics. Chow explores the problematic assumptions about non-Western cultures and ethnic minorities within the context of academic discourse as well as in more public discourses about ethnic and cultural identity. Many of her explorations of critical concepts have been recognized by scholars as important, including her ideas about visualism, the ethnic subject and cultural translation.

Chow's research comprises theoretical, interdisciplinary, and textual analyses. Since her years as a graduate student at Stanford University, she has specialized in the making of cultural forms such as literature and film , and in the discursive encounters among modernity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and ethnicity. Her book PRIMITIVE PASSIONS was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association. Before coming to Duke, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she held appointments in the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media. In her current work, Chow is concerned with the legacies of poststructuralist theory, the politics of language as a postcolonial phenomenon, and the shifting paradigms for knowledge and lived experience in the age of visual technologies and digital media.

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Rey Chow

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Books from Rey Chow

Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value

The Poetics of Chinese Cinema

Sound Objects

Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field

Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience

Εισαγωγή στις κινηματογραφικές σπουδές: Κριτικές προσεγγίσεις

Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present

Boundaries In China (Critical Views)

The Rey Chow Reader

A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present

寫在家國以外

溫情主義寓言‧當代華語電影

Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The Sense of Sound

Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies

Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility