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Home And Away: Representing The Chinese Homosexual Diaspora In The Wedding Banquet (1993) And Happy Together (1997), Shuo Wang
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This project investigates representations of the Chinese homosexual diaspora in two transnational films - The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993) and Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997). Both diasporic films reflect the rise of mainland China, and its transnational importance, since the 1980s. I explore two signifiers of cultural identity: nation and sexuality. Through close textual analysis the two films' narratives, sequences and context are compared. The analysis demonstrates nation and sexuality are discursively constructed. In The Wedding Banquet national identity is constructed through patriarchal relations and homosexuality is subjected to the dominant Chinese heterosexual discourse. In Happy Together national identity …