Deconstructing the Construction: The Female Images in Chinese Detective Films, 2010-2020

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Ying-Hsiu Chou (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. She joined the department as a Fulbright Scholar in 2016. Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary and transnational feminist approaches to Chinese popular fiction, films, and magazines, with emphasis on gender, genre, and cultural encounter. Chou's dissertation project, tentatively titled The Deorbiting Planet: The Romantic Male in Modern Chinese Popular Culture, is an interdisciplinary and transnational feminist endeavor to unforget, reunderstand, and theorize the Romantic Male in early-twentieth-century Chinese popular culture as a key to a new, more nuanced understanding of masculinities and gender dynamics in China. She served as a committee member of the UW Taiwan Studies Program’s Land/scaping Taiwan: (Non-)Humans, Environment, and Moments of Encounter Workshop, sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the organizer of the Rethinking East Asia Graduate Research Cluster, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Chou is a research fellow of the 2022-23 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant Program, funded by the National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan.

Chou is also a videographic essayist. Her art-based digital humanities project, “Deconstructing the Construction: The Female Images in Chinese Detective Films, 2010-2020,” received the 2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities and won the Best Video Essay Award (Second Place Prize) at the 2022 Film and Critics Festival held in Alessandria, Italy.

 

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