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A Study of Form/Style and Female Consciousness in Lou Ye’s films

This thesis focuses on Lou Ye, a Chinese director who has been regarded as a representative of the sixth generation, attempting to answer whether there is a connection between the form/style and the female consciousness of his films. 

The Production of Immortality: Posthumous Celebrity Capital of Leslie Cheung

Fifteen years after the death of Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing (Zhang Guorong). He has remained famous and visible as a celebrity, his celebrity status has been constantly ascent through the commemorations. This work is to examine how his visibility as his celebrity capital has been unceasingly increased. 

A Sticky Empire: The Platformization of WeChat

This article proposes to understand how WeChat becomes a platform and operates under the framework of platform capitalism.

Female Narrative in Patriarchy:
Re-discussing the Gender Discourse underlying Feng Shui

On contrary to the existing criticism articulating that Chinese film Feng Shui (2012) reflects on feminism by portraying a rebellious female protagonist who challenges the social and domestic norms borne in Chinese culture, this paper argues that the female narrative is apocryphal as it was still constructed under a patriarchal discourse.