Contemporary Chinese Queer Culture
You don’t need to type “NAME, COURSE,DATE,PROFESSOR” at the beginning, you can just straightly start the essay. This is a journal style, so please
generate your idea to answer the questions. Follow the questions and answer all of them will be fine. But you have to show your understanding toward the
article in the essay, for example you can list some examples to answer the questions.
PLEASE WATCH Wong Kar-wai’s “Happy Together” BEFORE CLASS. Wong, Kar-wai (王家衛). Happy Together (Chun gwong cha sit 春光乍洩).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118845/ 1997.
READ Lim, Song Hwee. “Traveling Sexualities: Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together.” In Lim, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in
Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, 2006, 99-125.
(you may need to find the reading source yourself)
Prompt question 19: Do you think the two main characters are really in love? What are the character flaws of each? What are their strengths? How do
you interpret the film’s ending?