REY CHOW

Rey Chow studies 20th-century Chinese fiction, both canonical and popular; postcolonial theory and fiction; interdisciplinary analyses of film; and critical and cultural theory.

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Biography

Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of many books, including _Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991); _Writing Diaspora (1993); _Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema_ (1995); _Ethics after Idealism (1998); _The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism_ (2002); _The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work_ (2006); and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films_ (2007). She has edited the collection _Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field_ (2000). Her book _Primitive Passions_ received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated into major European and Asian languages.

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REY CHOW, B.A. (First Class Honours), University of Hong Kong; M.A. and Ph.D., Stanford University
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
Departments of Modern Culture and Media, Comparative Literature, and English
Phone: +1 401 863 2138
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2818
E-mail: Rey_Chow@Brown.EDU

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