Eileen Chang and Stanley Kwan: Politics and Love in Red Rose (and) White Rose (2025)

Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman

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2010

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9780824870782

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9780824833732

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Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film

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Deppman, Hsiu-Chuang, 'Eileen Chang and Stanley Kwan: Politics and Love in Red Rose (and) White Rose', Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film (Honolulu, HI, 2010; online edn, Hawai'i Scholarship Online, 17 Nov. 2016), https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824833732.003.0003, accessed 13 Oct. 2024.

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This chapter adds race to the complications of gender politics in Red Rose/White Rose (1994). Writing in a lucid, satirical, yet profoundly humanistic style that one could call “postrealist,” Eileen Chang’s 1942 story illustrates the sexual and ideological confusions of a Western-educated Chinese man, Tong Zhenbao, as he oscillates between two self-images: an exalted manly colonist and an emasculated colonized subject. In his adaptation, Stanley Kwan—one of the most important directors of the Hong Kong New Wave—picks up on Chang’s fine-grained study of the power relationships involved in seeing and being seen. Taken together, Chang’s mixed-media fiction and Kwan’s literary adaptation propose a more diverse and symbiotic future for Chinese culture.

Keywords: postrealist style, Red Rose/White Rose, Eileen Chang, Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong New Wave, power relationships, race politics, gender politics, mixed-media fiction

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