Kwok, Kam-yan Crystal (郭錦恩)

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Kwok, Kam-yan Crystal – Critical Biography  Top

Crystal Kwok (Photo: SCMP)

Crystal is a PhD student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Performance Studies and holds a Women’s Studies Advanced Graduate Certificate. She is also an award winning filmmaker who established her career in Hong Kong as an actress, writer, director, and talk show host. As a strong women’s advocate, her talk show, “Kwoktalk” broke boundaries in the Hong Kong media with taboo conversations about women and sexuality. Continuing efforts to create visibility in addressing women’s issues, Crystal hosts a talk show and podcast, “Kwoktalk” on KTUH 90.1 fm. Crystal currently teaches courses in Women and Film and the Media at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and is reaching towards the completion of a feature length documentary titled, “Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South”, addressing race-relations between the Chinese and Black communities. She serves on the UH Commission on Racism and Bias and is President of the Gender Equality Movement club under the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department.

filmoFilmography   Top

Feature Films:

RoleTitle (English)Title (Chinese)Year
DirectorBlurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated SouthForthcoming
Director
Co-producer with Lawrence Ah Mon
Writer		The Mistress迷失森林1999
Assistant directorMary from Beijing夢醒時分1992

 

reviewReviews   Top

The Mistress (1999):

So Good Reviews – The Mistress (1999)

Mary from Beijing (1992): 

So Good Reviews – Mary from Beijing (1992)

Others:

Hong Kong Cinemagic – INTERVIEW WITH CRYSTAL KWOK

Blurring the Color Line website – https://www.blurringthecolorline.com/

Hong Kong Cinemagic – Crystal Kwok Kam Yan

Hong Kong Movie Database – Crystal Kwok Gam-Yan

IMDB – Crystal Kwok

RTHK – Kwok Talk

Mandarin language educational DVD series for children – Culture Cubs

RTHK – The Sex Crystals

SCMP – Director Crystal Kwok on Jackie Chan, sex talk and where Asians fitted into segregated US South

biblioBibliography   Top

  1. Kwok, Crystal Lee. “Ghosts and Goddesses: Women, Cinema, & the Image.” University of Hong Kong, 1995. Print. <http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/40387>
  2. Erens, Patricia Brett. “The Mistress and Female Sexuality.” Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier. Eds. Cheung, Esther M. K., Gina Marchetti and See Kam Tan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. Print.
  3. Ford, Stacilee. “Home for the Handover: Muted Exceptionalisms in Transnational Times.” Troubling American Women : Narratives of Gender and Nation in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Print.
  4. Meyer, Mahlon. “Having Too Many Wives Ain’t What It Used to Be; Cursing the Concubines.” Newsweek, International Edition 1999, June 28: 45. Print.