Dr Lara Vanderstaay
Chinese Discipline
Casual Academic Staff
School of Languages and Cultures
Book Chapters
Vanderstaay, Lara (2019). Subverting the ‘good wife and wise mother’: the roles and public persona of Xu Jinglei. In Shenshen Cai (Ed.), Female celebrities in contemporary Chinese society (pp. 63-82) Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-5980-4_4
Vanderstaay, Lara (2018). Families, intellectuals, and enemies in the "Red Classic" remake new tunnel warfare. In Rosemary Roberts and Li Li (Ed.), The making and remaking of China's "Red Classics": politics, aesthetics, and mass culture (pp. 177-187) Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Vanderstaay, L. (2006). They're not hidden dragons: Women in the Chinese film industry, 1925-1978. In N. Ramière and R. Varshney (Ed.), Rhizomes: Connecting Languages, Cultures and Literatures (pp. 52-64) Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal Articles
Vanderstaay, L. (2008) Female consciousness in contemporary Chinese women directors' films: A case study of Ma Xiaoying's Gone is the One Who Held Me Dearest in the World. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in Asia and the Pacific, 16 1-14.
Vanderstaay, Lara (2004) (Book review) The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. Asian Studies Review, 28 2: 190-190. doi:10.1080/1035782042000226710
Conference Papers
Vanderstaay, L. M. (2005). Femininity in pre-1949 women's films and their links with post-1979 women's films. In: S. Shaoyi and S. Chuan, Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of ACSS. National, Transnational, International: Chinese Cinema and Asn, Beijing, China, (347-355). 5-10 June 2005.
Vanderstaay, L. M. (2004). A case study of the influence of directorial gender on the representation of female sexuality in four contemporary Chinese films. In: R. Cribb, Asia Examined: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2004. Asia Examined, Canberra, (1-18). 29 June - 2 July 2004.
Thesis
Lara Vanderstaay (2010). A textual analysis of female consciousness in twenty-first Chinese women directors' films PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comp Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.