Clara Law's Floating Life and Hong Kong-Australian 'flexible citizenship'

Mitchell, T

Clara Law's Floating Life and Hong Kong-Australian 'flexible citizenship'

Mitchell, T

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2003, 26 (2), pp. 278 - 300
Issue Date:: 2003-03-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Mitchell, T	en_US
dc.date.issued	2003-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2003, 26 (2), pp. 278 - 300	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0141-9870	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/5529
dc.description.abstract	Clara Law's film Floating Life was the first Australian film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and the first Australian film to deal with migrant Hong Kong Chinese identities 'from inside'. From perspectives of transnational Chinese migration and flexible citizenship, this article looks at Floating Life as a Hong Kong Chinese migrant reading of Australia, which defamiliarizes and recontextualizes familiar Australian localities and geopolitical formations, contrasting them with the film's other principal loci of Hong Kong and Germany. It also interprets the film as a neo-Confucian study of family disintegration in a migrant context, and an exploration of notions of home and identity.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Ethnic and Racial Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/0141987032000054439	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sociology	en_US
dc.title	Clara Law's Floating Life and Hong Kong-Australian 'flexible citizenship'	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	26	en_US
utslib.for	160803 Race and Ethnic Relations	en_US
utslib.for	190204 Film and Television	en_US
utslib.for	160502 Arts and Cultural Policy	en_US
dc.location.activity	Japan
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Faculty Administration
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	26	en_US

Abstract:

Clara Law's film Floating Life was the first Australian film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and the first Australian film to deal with migrant Hong Kong Chinese identities 'from inside'. From perspectives of transnational Chinese migration and flexible citizenship, this article looks at Floating Life as a Hong Kong Chinese migrant reading of Australia, which defamiliarizes and recontextualizes familiar Australian localities and geopolitical formations, contrasting them with the film's other principal loci of Hong Kong and Germany. It also interprets the film as a neo-Confucian study of family disintegration in a migrant context, and an exploration of notions of home and identity.

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