The book is a crucial and very welcome examination of a film industry ... . the main strengths of this book is the author's ability to amalgamate the complex deconstruction of film style, paying close attention to cinematography, composition, editing, and narrative, with that of the wider geopolitical complexities of Taiwan's hybrid cultural landscape. (Mary J. Ainslie, International Journal of Taiwan Studies, Vol. 4 (2), 2021)
Ivy I-chu Chang is Professor and the former provost of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She was a visiting scholar and Fulbright scholar at New York University in 2006 and 2011-12, a recipient of MOST Grant (1997-2019), Mackay Canadian Studies Award, and Asian Cultural Council Award. She is the co-editor and chapter contributor of a book, Transnational Performance, Identity, and Mobility in Asia (Palgrave, 2018) and is the author of such monographs as Queer Performativity and Performance (2010); and Global Time-Space, Bodies and Memories: Taiwan New Cinema and its Influence (2015).