ArticleTác giả : Zheng Zhu (2013)
Present study critically investigates the cinematic depiction of leading Chinese masculine figures in Hollywood film productions, with a specific focus on how the positioning of white female characters romantically involved with Chinese martial arts fighters serves to construct Chinese masculinity. In noted films such as The
Tuxedo (2002), Kiss of the Dragon (2001), and Dragon: Bruce Lee Story (1993),
Chinese martial arts fighters not only managed to fight off white antagonists but also succeeded in winning the ‘heart’ of white heroines. Drawing on Gestner’s theoretical assertion that white women’s falling for a man of color signifies the invasive movement of a new masculine discour... 
