« Comme à l’époque de Suzie Wong ». Les mutations du red-light district de Wan Chai by Nicolas Paris

“…The exotic novel, The World of Suzie Wong, and its many adaptations immortalized the red-light district of Wan Chai, Hong Kong with its American sailors, British Empire expatriates and Hong Kong prostitutes in the late 1950s. …”
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Hong Kong 1960 : inventing a gendered modernity through the Qipao by Rena Surash

“…With two detailed case studies on Wong Kar Wai’s acclaimed film ‘In the Mood for Love’ and Richard Quine’s ‘The World of Suzie Wong’, women’s insecurities and uncertainty in relation to their social statuses, this essay will further illustrate how the Qipao can be seen as an imagined site for women to carve an identity for themselves in society- regardless of their societal status. …”
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