Title: Hong Kong cinema and the portrayal of the Nanyang Chinese in the 1950s and 1960s
Abstract: This article examines Hong Kong cinema's filmic representation of the Nanyang Chinese in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on four films, Niangre/Nyonyah (Yue Feng, 1952), Fengyu Niuche Shui/Rainstorm in Chinatown (Yan Jun, 1956), Niangre yu Baba/Nonya and Baba (Yan Jun, 1956) and Niangre zhi Lian/Love with a Malaysian Girl (Lui Kei, 1969), it illustrates how these films were produced as an attempt to secure and expand the Chinese overseas market for the Hong Kong film industry by showcasing the overseas Chinese and reflecting their values. Consequently, the ideological imposition of Chinese values on the overseas Chinese in Malaya via the cinematic misrepresentation of the Nanyang Chinese communities complicates and deconstructs the prescriptive notion of a homogenous Chinese identity in the ethnic and cultural diversity of Malaya.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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