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Situating Durian Durian in Fruit Chan's Oeuvre Situating Durian Durian in Fruit Chan's Oeuvre
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Consumption, Money, and Movement Consumption, Money, and Movement
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Parodying Enterprise Parodying Enterprise
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The Migrant Sex Worker's Secret and the Aporia of Exile The Migrant Sex Worker's Secret and the Aporia of Exile
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Exits? Exits?
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11 Fantasies of “Chinese-ness” and the Traffic in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian
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Published:June 2010
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Abstract
This chapter analyzes cross-border prostitution as hauntingly portrayed in Fruit Chan's film, Durian Durian. It argues that the film questions hegemonic fantasies of “Chinese-ness” by putting into circulation a set of haunting counter-hegemonic images of the female migrant that exposes flexible accumulation and the consumer fantasies it has generated in mainland China. The main protagonist, Xiao Yan, also personifies an incisive critique of the myth of the Chinese diasporic entrepreneur since the migrant sex worker is intimately linked to the opening up of the mainland to economic globalization. More strikingly, the migrant sex worker embodies many of the traits and characteristics of the savvy and flexible migrant entrepreneur that are celebrated as virtues and ideals both in Hong Kong and in the People's Republic of China, at the level of the state and society.
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