This essay will examine the issue of cultural violence in relation to the homophobic discourse in Chinese culture, as exemplified by Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine (1993), a film that has widely been shown and reviewed in the United States. Cultural violence, in Foucauldian terminology, can be described as a “strategic field” of forces, where various discourses of power operate concurrently to generate a social body of repression in the name of normality and order. Deviance such as homosexuality has long been regarded in Chinese culture as a sign of “transgression”...
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