Research & Response

Lea Zou

The collection is first and foremost inspired by the film Farewell my Concubine (1993). The film is set in the context of China in the 1920s onwards.
The film portrays gender in a beautifully ambiguous and fluid way, inspiring me to examine the traditional notions of gender in Chinese culture, its embrace of the ambiguity and fluidity, contrary to common belief.

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