The rise of homosexuality and the dawn of communism in Hong Kong film: 1993-1998

I have designed this essay as a general overview of the self-evident trend towards queer subject matter in the past decade in Hong Kong film, a trend that not only coincides historically with the 1997 handover to the Mainland but also frequently comes equipped with parent-child relationships that ca n be read as allegories for the colony's future as the "child" to its mothe r country. Queerness in HK films has both alternated between and combined i ndigenous forms of queerness and the imported Western variety; by charting courses through internationalized concepts of homosexuality, HK films have posited their queerness not only as an existential allegory of (post)coloni alism but also as a claim (or hope) for a utopian sexuality aim utopian int ernational politics.