Audrey Yue is senior lecturer in cinema and cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

“With due emphases on diasporic intimacies, cine-feminism, and transcultural literacy, Audrey Yue has written a sensitive and lucid study, doing justice to a remarkable film by a remarkable director.” —Rey Chow, Duke University

“This book pushes the boundaries of existing studies on Hong Kong cinema studies. Yue provides us with innovative ways of reading intimacy in the diaspora: as nostalgia for the familiar or idealised; as cultural memories that make up diasporic archives; as modes of transformation of kinship structures; as affects produced through new media technologies. The book concludes with a self-reflexive exploration of teaching Song in Australia. By situating the film under the rubric of critical multiculturalism, Yue demonstrates how the teaching of postcolonial cinema can be sustained as a political pedagogy that resists the pluralist demands of a neoliberal curriculum. This is a carefully researched, rigorously analytical and intellectually profound study that will make its mark in the fields of diaspora, transcultural communication and cinema studies.” —Jacqueline Lo, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

“Audrey Yue does a superb job of exploring Ann Hui’s semi-autobiographical mother-daughter narrative in relation to questions of ‘intimacy’ and ‘diaspora.’ This very productive approach highlights the borders that crisscross bodies, nations, cultures, histories, and memories. Going beyond the boundaries that separate the melodrama and the memoir, Yue carefully places the film within Hui’s oeuvre and highlights its critical contributions to the development of Hong Kong cinema as a global art form.” —Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong