Kai-man Chang

Kai-man Chang is a Professor of Practice in Communication and Cinema Studies at Tulane University. He teaches Intro to Cinema, Film Analysis, New Cinemas in East Asia, Japanese Cinema, Chinese Cinema and Literature, Hong Kong Cinema and Hollywood Cinema. His research interests include East Asian Cinemas, Chinese film and literature, feminism, queer theory, diaspora studies, postcolonialism, and childhood studies. He has published a number of articles on Taiwan New Cinema and Hong Kong martial arts cinema.

Research Interests

• East Asian Cinema
• Transnational Cinema
• Feminism and Queer Theory
• Globalization
• Childhood Studies

Selected Publications

• “Filming Critical Female Perspective: Edward Yang’s The Terrorizers.” ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 24:1 (2017): 112-131. 
• “In the Name of the Master: Race, Nationalism and Masculinity in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema.” Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage, Leiden: Brill, 2015. 439-458.
• “Sleeping with Strangers: Queering Home and Identity in I Don't Want to Sleep Alone.” Cinematic Homecoming: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014): 250-268.
• “Gender Hierarchy and Environmental Crisis in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole.” Film Criticism 33.1 (2008): 25-44.