Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power (Hardcover, 2021)

Introduction: Laying out a Terrain of the Phone-based Star Discourse in Chinese Cinemas.- Part I: Anglophone Media Space.- Mediating Action and Speech: Michelle Yeoh’s Inter-phonic Star Appeal in Pan-Pacific Connections.- The Exotic “Sound” of New China: Fan Bingbing and Liu Yifei in Hollywood Star Vehicles.- From “King of Mandopop” to the New Kato: Vocal Eccentricities, “Coolness,” and the Crossover Image of Jay Chou.- Part II: Sinophone Cinematic Space.- Tang Wei: Lingual Versatility, On-/Off-screen Existence, and the Chinese-Korean Popular Imagination.- Modern Women, “Old” Shanghai: Maggie Cheung, Sammi Cheng, and Female Vocality in Two Stanley Kwan’s Sinophone Films.- Bi-ethnicity, Multi-dialecticality: Takeshi Kaneshiro’s Lingua-Crossing Public Persona.- Part III: Participatory Web Space.- “Mute Fighters”: Dialectics of Corporeal Presence and Vocal Absence in Digital Fan Videos Featuring Bruce Lee and Donnie Yen.- When Geisha Meets Mulan: User-generated Revoicing, (Dis)embodiment and Cyber Star Discourse of Zhang Ziyi.- Conclusion: Reconsidering Chinese Film Stars -- Toward a Polyphonic Presence.