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dc.identifier	ECF_article_11215
dc.title	Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China
dc.contributor.author	Reynaud Bérénice M.
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2023/2/vivian-qus-angels-wear-white-vulnerable-young-girl/
dc.description.abstract	Focusing on Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White (2017), this paper uses Judith Butler’s discussion of vulnerability, resistance, and performativity as a theoretical framework to analyse the film’s narrative and directing choices when addressing issues of sexual assault on minors and genders norms in contemporary China. The film’s depiction of social inequalities, economic precariousness, corruption, and the construction and performance of femininity demonstrates the way Chinese women are vulnerable to violence – sexual or not – and to gender norms they are expected to conform to, without falling into the trap of paternalism and victimisation.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 59 \| October 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-01
dc.dateAccepted	2023-03-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-11-24
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/02/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Chinese art-house cinema
dc.subject	Feminism
dc.subject	Resistance
dc.subject	Sexual assault
dc.subject	Vulnerability

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Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White: Vulnerable Young Girls and Resistance in Contemporary China

Bérénice M. Reynaud University of Aix-Marseille, France

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abstract

Focusing on Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White (2017), this paper uses Judith Butler’s discussion of vulnerability, resistance, and performativity as a theoretical framework to analyse the film’s narrative and directing choices when addressing issues of sexual assault on minors and genders norms in contemporary China. The film’s depiction of social inequalities, economic precariousness, corruption, and the construction and performance of femininity demonstrates the way Chinese women are vulnerable to violence – sexual or not – and to gender norms they are expected to conform to, without falling into the trap of paternalism and victimisation.

Published

Dec. 1, 2023

Accepted

March 1, 2023

Submitted

Nov. 24, 2022

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Keywords: Feminism • Chinese art-house cinema • Vulnerability • Resistance • Sexual assault

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