Lisa Y Stokes

Integrated Office Systems

To the Inland Sea

Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema

Peter Ho-Sun Chan's He's a Woman, She's a Man (The New Hong Kong Cinema)

This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an "ordinary" fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story development, the film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexu...

Stabbed With a Wedge of Cheese...And Other Cultural Oddities

A compendium of absurdities depicts the bizarre side of cultural activities with listings of off-the-wall holidays, strange museums, crazy events, and such way-out organizations as the National Frumps of America. 40,000 first printing.

Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)

Despite the industry being shutdown by two world wars, having its martial arts films dismissively labeled as 'chopsocky,' and operating on shoestring budgets, the films of Hong Kong have been praised and imitated all over the world. From its beginning in 1909 with the silent short Stealing the Roast...