Farewell My Concubine

Cronenberg’s M Butterfly and Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine are films that explore the duality of the stage. Both films explore the idea of femininity, and what it means to “act” the part of being a woman. However, both films seem to embody the female, but only in regards to her male counterpart. They have created her character inside of patriarchal stereotypes, and have rejected the concept of the real woman in favor of the staged one. In Kaige’s Farwell My Concubine, the dichotomy…

support of a young, beautiful woman. Where Abelard, after becoming a monk, sees love as something for God , Heloise sees love as owing someone for providing support and pleasure. In Letter 2, Heloise mentions what he owes her and ends it with “farewell, my only…

of the events in the film. This is all done without the film feeling like a documentary or over explaining the events of the film. Blue Kite’s ability to show another’s history as sympathetic and understandable is also seen in To Live and Farewell My Concubine. However, the use of the events is different throughout the films. These three films are leading examples of how Fifth Generation’s films humanizes the history of another country so all can…

When the CCP came to power in 1949 after the end of the civil war, it enjoyed a remarkable popularity among a population suffered from frequent regime changes and foreign occupation for half of a century. The Party vowed to build an egalitarian modern society and to offer better life for the people, which appealed primarily to the working class and the 1 “Constitution of the Communist Party of China”, Revised and adopted at the Eighteenth National C o n g r e s s o f t h e C o m m u n i s t P a…

everything is still okay for you. How is the new emperor?” Meigui frowns at her mother and says, “Mother, do you not think that I can win the new emperor with my looks and personality?” Her mother sighs and softly says, “Dear, even before the old emperor past we have heard that the new emperor was not interested in any of the old emperor’s concubines. So we just wanted to check if you are okay.” Meigui scowls at her mother and coldly says, “Mother, do not worry about that. You should instead…

p.1), I have experienced first-hand, the struggles of being 1.5 generation immigrant. In particular, my identity. Immigrating to The United States has shaped many aspects of my life, including my struggle to assimilate both American and Chinese culture and the formation of my identity. How hegemony and Bandwagon effect that humans want to follow the mainstream torn my identity apart. Based on my observation, I am sure that I am not the only one who has experienced this problem. I believe that…

Shashi Deshpande is a leading woman novelist in Indian writing in English. She has written seven novels and four collections of short stories. In her novels she gives us a realistic portrait of middle-class educated Indian women who are self-confident, self-reliant and financially self-dependent. Such women are the protagonists of her novels, they get trapped between tradition and modernity, they undergo great mental trauma, they face the problems of adjustments and conflicts and then they go in…