As a cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, but is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. What is intriguing is the fiction behind the fictional, which many people accept as truth. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors in this volume unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de/)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

作者簡介

Kwok-kan Tam

　　Kwok-kan Tam is Chair Professor and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University University of Hong Kong.

Terry Siu-han Yip

　　Terry Siu-han Yip is Professor of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.