Rey Chow
Rey Chow studies 20th-century Chinese fiction, both canonical and popular; postcolonial theory and fiction; interdisciplinary analyses of film; and critical and cultural theory.
Biography
Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of many books, including Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991); Writing Diaspora (1993); Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (1995); Ethics after Idealism (1998); The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002); The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (2006); and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007). She has edited the collection Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (2000). Her book Primitive Passions received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated into major European and Asian languages.
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