Rey Chow | Scholars@Duke

Rey Chow
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

Chow's research comprises theoretical, interdisciplinary, and textual analyses. Since her years as a graduate student at Stanford University, she has specialized in the making of cultural forms such as literature and film (with particular attention to East Asia, Western Europe, and North America), and in the discursive encounters among modernity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and ethnicity. Her book PRIMITIVE PASSIONS was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association. Before coming to Duke, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she held appointments in the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media. In her current work, Chow is concerned with the legacies of poststructuralist theory (in particular the work of Michel Foucault), the politics of language as a postcolonial phenomenon, and the shifting paradigms for knowledge and lived experience in the age of visual technologies and digitial media.

Please contact Professor Chow for most recent CV at rey.chow@duke.edu

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021

Contact Information

101 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
rey.chow@duke.edu (919) 660-3045

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Stanford University 1986
- M.A., Stanford University 1982
- B.A., University of Hong Kong (China) 1979
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Anne Firor Scott Distinguished Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2020
- Director of the Program in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2020
- Director of the Program in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2017
- Interim Director in the Program in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
Recognition
In the News
- APR 20, 2016
  
  Jack Knight, Rey Chow Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Asia (Continent)
  - Europe (Continent)
Research
External Relationships
- Columbia university press
- Duke University Press
- Indiana University Press
- U Minnesota Press
- University of Hong Kong
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Chow, Rey. A Face Drawn in Sand Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present. Columbia University Press, 2021.
  - Chow, Rey, and James Steintrager, eds. Sound Objects. Duke University Press, 2019.
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  - Chow, Rey, and James Steintrager, eds. Sound Objects. Duke University Press, 2019.
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  - Chow, R. Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
  - Chow, R. Ethics after Idealism: Theory–Culture–Ethnicity–Reading (Chinese translation). Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China: Henan University Press, 2013.
  - Chow, R. Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.
  - Steintrager, James A. The Sense of Sound. Vol. 22, 2011.
  - Chow, R. The Rey Chow Reader. Edited by P. Bowman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
  - Chow, R. Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
  - Chow, R. The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
  - Chow, R. Il sogno di Butterfly: costellazioni postcoloniali. Edited by Patrizia Calefato. Translated by Maria Rosaria Dagostino. Rome: Meltemi Editore, 2004.
  - Chow, Rey. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
  - Chow, R., ed. Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
  - Chow, R. Ethics after Idealism: Theory – Culture – Ethnicity – Reading. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998.
  - Chow, R. Xie zai jia guo yi wai. Edited by Louis Dung. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  - Chow, Rey. Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
  - Chow, R. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.
  - Chow, R. Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East. Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
- Academic Articles
  - Chow, R., and M. Hadjioannou. “Fathers in flux.” Cultural Critique 114 (December 1, 2022): 23–39.
  - Chow, R. “The Jargon of Liberal Democracy.” Pmla 137, no. 5 (October 1, 2022): 935–41. https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812922000839.
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  - Steintrager, James A., and Rey Chow. “Dispatches to the Dead: Delegation, Consumption, and Mischievous Pleasure (Thinking with Robert Pfaller in the So-called Present).” Boundary 2 49, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 295–313. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9644597.
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  - Chow, R. “The message it is not: The work of the medium known as documentary.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 7, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2019.38.
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  - Chow, R., and A. Sarfan. “We “other victorians”? Novelistic remains, therapeutic devices, contemporary televisual dramas.” Daedalus 150, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 118–33. https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_01837.
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  - Chow, R., and S. Hajdini. “The Subject of Chinglish.” Problemi 55, no. 11–12 (January 1, 2017): 117–27.
  - Hadjioannou, M., and R. Chow. “The Hitchcockian Nudge; or, An Aesthetics of Deception.” Representations 140, no. 1 (2017): 159–74. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2017.140.1.159.
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  - Chow, R. “Modernism's Unfinished Business?” Arcade: Literature, the Humanities, and the World Spring (2015).
  - Chow, R. “Things, Commonplaces, Passages of a Port City: On Hong Kong and Hong Kong Author Leung Ping-kwan.” Edited by S. Shih, C. Tsai, and B. Bernards, 2014, 207–26.
  - Chow, R. “The provocation of Dim Sum, or, making diaspora visible on film,” January 1, 2013, 100–110.
  - Chow, R. “Remains’ Regime Change?” World Picture 8 (2013).
  - Chow, R. “The Subject of Chinglish.” Edited by Tim Parks and Eduardo Zuccato. Testo a Fronte: Teoria E Practica Della Traduzione Letteraria 48 (1 Semestre), 2013, 155–62.
  - Chow, R. “Fetish Power Unbound: A Small History of ’Woman’ in Chinese Cinema.” Edited by C. Rojas and E. Chow, 2013, 490–506.
  - Chow, R. “On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem.” Edited by S. Shih, C. Tsai, and B. Bernards, 2013, 43–56.
  - Chow, R. “What Does It Mean to Enjoy Life? Yang Fudong’s 'An Estranged Paradise'.” Edited by P. Pirotte and B. Ruf, 2013, 129-30;148-49(Germantranslation)-129-30;148-49(Germantranslation).
  - Chow, R. “Ye Si yu shuqing.” Edited by David Der-wei Wang et al, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “Postcolonial Visibilities.” Zeitschrift Fur Medienwissenschaft 2 (2013): 132–45.
  - Chow, R. “China as Documentary: Basic Questions (Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni and Jia Zhangke).” Edited by Jeroen de Kloet and Yiu-fai Chow. European Journal of Cultural Studies 0 (0), 2013, 1–15.
  - Chow, R., and James A. Steintrager. “Mediation/Medium.” Edited by J. D. Mininger and J. M. Peck, 2013.
  - Chow, R., and Pooja Rangan. “Race, Racism, and Postcoloniality.” Edited by Graham Huggan, 2013, 396–411.
  - Chow, R. “The Dream of a Butterfly.” Edited by David Liwei Li, 2012, 92–117.
  - Chow, R. “Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood.” Problemi 9 (2012): 161–90.
  - Chow, R. “Framing the Original: toward a New Visibility of the Orient.” Pmla, May 2011, 555–63.
  - Chow, R. “On the Graphic in Postmodern Theoretical Writing.” Twentieth Century Literature 57, no. 3–4 (2011): 372–79.
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  - Chow, R., and J. A. Steintrager. “In Pursuit of the Object of Sound: An Introduction.” Differences 22, no. 2–3 (2011): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-428816.
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  - Chow, R. “Response: Fleeing Objects.” Postcolonial Studies (Special Issue: Rey Chow, Postcoloniality and Interdisciplinarity) 13 (2010): 303–4.
  - Chow, R. “Response to Carol Quillen, “Feminist Theory, Justice, and the Lure of the Human".” Signs 27 (2010): 135–36.
  - Searchinger, Timothy D., Steven P. Hamburg, Jerry Melillo, William Chameides, Petr Havlik, Daniel M. Kammen, Gene E. Likens, et al. “Bioenergy: Counting on Incentives Response.” Science 327, no. 5970 (2010): 1200–1201. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.327.5970.1200-a.
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  - Chow, R. “The Provocation of ’Dim Sum’; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film.” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 9 (July 2009): 208–17.
  - Chow, R. “American Studies in Japan; Japan in American Studies: Challenges of the Heterolingual Address.” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Japan) 30 (2008): 47–61.
  - Chow, R. “Translator, Traitor; Translator, Mourner (or, Dreaming of Intercultural Equivalence).” New Literary History 39 (2008): 565–80.
  - Chow, R. “Woman,’ Fetish, Particularism: Articulating Chinese Cinema with a Cross-Cultural Problematic.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 1 (2007): 209–21.
  - Chow, R. “A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: Kurosawa Akira’s ’No Regrets for Our Youth’, Sixty Years Later.” Boundary 2 34 (2007): 67–77.
  - Chow, R. “Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood.” Representations 94 (2006): 131–49.
  - Chow, R. “"Epistemologically Disenfranchised?” response to Bill Brown, “The Dark Wood of Postmodernity".” Pmla, May 2005, 874–76.
  - Chow, R. “"Have You Eaten?" – Inspired by an Exhibit,” forum on E. Said.” Amerasia Journal 31 (2005): 19–22.
  - Chow, R. “An Addiction from Which We Never Get Free.” New Literary History 36 (2005): 47–55.
  - Chow, R. “A Pain in the Neck, a Scene of ‘Incest,’ and Other Enigmas of an Allegorical Cinema: Ts’ai Ming-liang’s ’The River’.” The New Centennial Review 4 (2004): 123–42.
  - Chow, R. “The Old/New Question of Comparison in Literary Studies.” Elh (English Literary History) 71 (2004): 289–311.
  - Chow, R. “Toward an Ethics of Postvisuality: Some Thoughts on the Recent Work of Zhang Yimou.” Poetics Today 25 (2004): 673–88.
  - Chow, R. “The Interruption of Referentiality: Poststructuralism and the Conundrum of Critical Multiculturalism.” Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly 101, no. 1 (2002): 171–86.
  - Chow, R. “Sentimental Returns: On the Uses of the Everyday in the Recent Films of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai.” New Literary History 33 (2002): 639–54.
  - Chow, R. “A Phantom Discipline.” Pmla 116 (October 2001): 1386–95.
  - Chow, R. “How (the) Inscrutable Chinese Led to Globalized Theory.” Pmla 116 (February 2001): 69–74.
  - Chow, R. “Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She.” Critical Inquiry 28 (2001): 286–304.
  - Chow, R. “The Secrets of Ethnic Abjection.” Traces 2 (2001): 53–77.
  - Chow, R. “Response to Question about Field of Study.” Pmla 115 (December 2000): 2037–2037.
  - Chow, R. “Consumption and Eccentric Writing: Notes on Two Hong Kong Writers.” Communal/Plural 7 (1999): 45–58.
  - Chow, R. “Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together.” Camera Obscura 42 (1999): 31–48.
  - Chow, R. “Seminal Dispersal, Fecal Retention, and Related Narrative Matters: Eileen Chang’s Tale of Roses in the Problematic of Modern Writing.” Differences 11 (1999): 153–76.
  - Chow, R. “When Whiteness Feminizes … : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic.” Differences 11 (1999): 137–68.
  - Chow, R. E. Y. “On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem.” Boundary 2 25, no. 3 (1998): 1–24.
  - Chow, R. “The Seductions of Homecoming: Place, Authenticity, and Chen Kaige’s ’Temptress Moon’.” Narrative 6 (January 1998): 3–17.
  - Chow, R. ““King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the ‘Handover,’ from the USA.” Social Text 55 (1998): 93–108.
  - Chow, R. “Ethics after Idealism.” Diacritics 23 (1998): 3–22.
  - Chow, R. “The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation.” Postcolonial Studies 1 (1998): 161–69.
  - Chow, R. “Playing on the Air: Recollections of a Hong Kong Childhood.” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 1 (July 1997): 109–27.
  - Chow, R. “Yao minzhu haishi yao yapian?” Xin Bao (Hong Kong Economic Journal), July 1997.
  - Chow, R. “Larry Feign, Ethnographer of a ‘Lifestyle’ — Political Cartoons from Hong Kong.” Boundary2 24 (1997): 21–45.
  - Chow, R. “Can One Say No to China?” New Literary History 28 (1997): 147–51.
  - Chow, R. “We Endure, therefore We Are: Survival, Governance, and Zhang Yimou’s ’To Live’.” South Atlantic Quarterly 95 (1996): 1039–64.
  - Chow, R. “Stories and Politics,” Review article on Michael Hanne, The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 29.2 29, no. 2 (1996): 262–65.
  - Chow, R. “The Fascist Longings in Our Midst.” Ariel 26, no. 1 (1995): 23–50.
  - Chow, R. ““The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formation of Community in Frantz Fanon.” Uts Review (Sydney, Australia) 1 (1995): 5–29.
  - Chow, R. “Between Colonizers: Hong Kong’s Postcolonial Self-Writing in the 1990s.” Diaspora 2 (1995): 151–70.
  - Chow, R. “A Souvenir of Love.” Modern Chinese Literature 7 (1993): 59–78.
  - Chow, R. “Review article on Alan Wolfe, Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan.” Comparative Literature 45, no. 3 (1993): 297–300.
  - Chow, R. “Things, Common/Places, Passages of the Port City: On Hong Kong and Hong Kong Author Leung Ping-kwan.” Differences 5 (1993): 179–204.
  - Chow, R. “Listening Otherwise, Music Miniaturized: A Different Type of Question about Revolution.” Discourse, 1991, 129–48.
  - Chow, R. “Trust, Pedagogy, Chinese Intellectuals in the 1990s – Fragments of a Post-Catastrophic Discourse.” Dialectical Anthropology 16 (1991): 191–207.
  - Chow, R. “Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige’s ’King of the Children’.” Camera Obscura 25/26 (1991): 9–40.
  - Chow, R. “Silent is the Ancient Plain: Music, Film-making, and the Conception of Reform in China’s New Cinema.” Discourse, 1990, 82–109.
  - Chow, R. “The Politics and Pedagogy of Asian Literatures in American Universities.” Differences 2 (1990): 29–51.
  - Chow, R. “Violence in the Other Country: Preliminary Remarks on the ‘China Crisis,’ June 1989.” Radical America, September 1989, 23–32.
  - Chow, R. “Sextual Strategies,” review article on Mieke Bal’s Lethal Love: Feminist Readings of Biblical Love Stories.” Semiotica 75, no. 3/4 (1989): 335–44.
  - Chow, R. “Walter Benjamin’s Love Affair with Death.” New German Critique, 1989, 63–86.
  - Chow, R. “Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Stories by Ling Shuhua.” Modern Chinese Literature 4 (1988): 71–86.
  - Chow, R. “How Westerners See the Orient” (in Chinese), review of Malek Alloula’s The Colonial Harem, trans. Wlad Godzich and Myrna Godzich, and of Rana Kabbani’s Europe’s Myths of Orient.” Jiuzhou Xuekan (Chinese Culture Quarterly) 2, no. 2 (1988): 79–84.
  - Chow, R. “Roland Barthes: ’Empire of Signs’.” Constructions, 1986, 17–24.
  - Chow, R. “Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A Response to the ‘Postmodern’ Condition.” Cultural Critique 5 (1986): 69–94.
  - Chow, R. “Reading Derrida on Being Monolingual.” New Literary History 39 (n.d.): 217–31.
  - Chow, R. “'I Insist on the Christian Dimension': On Forgiveness…and the Outside of the Human.” Differences 20 (n.d.): 224–49.
- Book Sections
  - Chow, Rey. “Listening after "Acousmaticity" Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic.” In SOUND OBJECTS, 113–29, 2019.
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  - Chow, Rey. “The Grain of Jade Woman, Repression, and Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town.” In BEYOND IMPERIAL AESTHETICS, 116–24, 2019.
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  - Steintrager, James A., and Rey Chow. “Sound Objects An Introduction.” In SOUND OBJECTS, 1-+, 2019.
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  - Chow, R. “Foucault, Race, and Racism.” In After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century, 107–21, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316492864.009.
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  - Chow, R. “The writing voice in cinema: A preliminary discussion.” In Locating the Voice in Film: Critical Approaches and Global Practices, 17–30, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190261122.003.0002.
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  - Chow, R. “Fetish power unbound: A small history of ‘woman’ in Chinese cinema ¹.” In Media and Utopia: History, Imagination and Technology, 34–55, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315091303-3.
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  - Chow, R. “The grain of jade: Woman, repression and Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town.” In Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives, 134–40, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315691893-11.
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  - Maitra, A., and R. Chow. “What’s“in”? Disaggregating Asia through new media actants.” In Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia, 17–27, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774626.
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  - Chow, R. ““I Insist on the Christian Dimension”: On Forgiveness… and the Outside of the Human.” In Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions, 215–36, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315591469-19.
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  - Steintrager, James A., and Rey Chow. “Nineteen Mediation/Medium.” In GERMAN AESTHETICS: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS FROM BAUMGARTEN TO ADORNO, 163–73, 2016.
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  - Bales, C. W., J. L. Locher, and E. Saltzman. “Handbook of clinical nutrition and aging, third edition,” 1–442, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1929-1.
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  - Maitra, A., and R. Chow. “What’s “in”? Disaggregating asia through new media actants.” In Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia, 17–27, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774626-9.
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  - Chow, R. “After the passage of the beast: 'False documentary' aspirations, acousmatic complications.” In Rancière and Film, 34–52, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “Things, Commonplaces, Passages of a Port City: On Hong Kong and Hong Kong Author Leung Ping-kwan. Reprint.” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by S. Shih, C. Tsai, and B. Bernards, 207–26. Columbia UP, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “Fetish Power Unbound: A Small History of 'Woman' in Chinese Cinema.” In The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas, edited by C. Rojas and E. Chow, 490–506. Oxford UP, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem.” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by S. Shih, C. Tsai, and B. Bernards, 43–56. Columbia UP, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “The Provocation of _Dim Sum_; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film.” In Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China: Communities and Cultural Production, edited by J. Kuehn, K. Louie, and D. M. Pomfret, 100–110. University of British Columbia P, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “What Does It Mean to Enjoy Life? Yang Fudong’s _An Estranged Paradise_.” In Yang Fudong, edited by P. Pirotte and B. Ruf, 129–30. UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Kunsthalle Zurich, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “Ye Si yu shuqing.” In Harvard History of Modern Chinese Literature, edited by David Der-wei Wang et al. Harvard UP, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “After the Passage of the Beast: ’False Documentary’ Aspirations, Acousmatic Complications.” In Ranciere and Film, edited by Paul Bowman, 34–52. Edinburgh UP, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work, chapter 3.” In Literatura Europea Comparada, edited by Cesar Dominguez, 147–75. Arcos Libros, S.L., 2013.
  - Chow, R. “After the Passage of the Beast: ’False Documentary’ Aspirations, Acousmatic Complications.” In Ton. Texte Zur Akustik Im Documentarfilm, edited by V. Kamensky and J. Rohrhuber, 194–211. Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2013.
  - Chow, R., and James A. Steintrager. “Mediation/Medium.” In Keywords in German Aesthetics, edited by J. D. Mininger and J. M. Peck. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  - Chow, R., and Pooja Rangan. “Race, Racism, and Postcoloniality.” In The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Graham Huggan, 396–411. Oxford UP, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “"I insist on the christian dimension": On forgiveness ... and the outside of the human.” In Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions, 215–36, 2012.
  - Chow, R. ““I insist on the Christian dimension”: On forgiveness … and the outside of the human.” In Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions, 234–55, 2012.
  - Chow, R. “The Dream of a Butterfly.” In Asian American Literature, Vol IV, edited by David Liwei Li, 92–117. Routledge, 2012.
  - Chow, R. “A Discipline of Tolerance.” In A Companion to Comparative Literature, 15–27, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444342789.ch1.
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  - Chow, R. “When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice.” In Theory after Theory, edited by J. Elliott and D. Attridge, 135–48. Routledge, 2011.
  - Chow, R. “Excerpts from WRITING DIASPORA, 116-19.” In Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader, 3d Edition, edited by Mary Eagleton, 407–10. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  - Chow, R. “Afterword: Liquidity of Being.” In The Chinese Cinema Book, edited by S. H. Lim and J. Ward, 194–99. British Film Institute/Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
  - Chow, R., and Julian Rohrhuber. “On Captivation: A Remainder from the ’Indistinction of Art and Nonart’.” In Reading Ranciere, edited by P. Bowman and R. Stamp, 44–72. Continuum, 2011.
  - Chow, Rey. “A Discipline of Tolerance.” In COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, 15–27, 2011.
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  - Chow, R. “Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze’s Method.” In Deleuze and the Postcolonial, edited by S. Bignall and P. Patton, 62–77. Edinburgh:University of Edinburgh Press, 2010.
  - Chow, R. “The Elusive Material, What the Dog Doesn’t Understand.” In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, edited by S. Frost and D. Coole, 221–33. Duke University Press, 2010.
  - Chow, R. “Thinking with Food, Writing off Center: Notes on Two Hong Kong Authors.” In Global Chinese Literature, edited by J. Tsu and D. Wang, 133–55. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
  - Chow, R. “Afterword.” In Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters, edited by E. Jurriëns and J de Kloet, 291–94. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008.
  - Chow, R. “Poststructuralism: Theory as Critical Self-Consciousness.” In The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory, edited by E. Rooney, 195–210. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  - Chow, R. “Sexuality.” In A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory, edited by M. Eagleton, 93–110. Blackwell, 2003.
  - Chow, R. “The Resistance of Theory; or, the Worth of Agony.” In Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena, edited by J. Culler and K. Lamb, 95–105. Stanford University Press, 2003.
  - Chow, R. “Not One Less: The Fable of a Migration.” In Chinese Films in Focus: 25 Takes, edited by C. Berry, 144–51. British Film Institute, 2003.
  - Chow, R. “Foreword: An Ethics of Consumption.” In Leung Ping Kwan, Travelling with a Bitter Melon (Selected Poems 1973-1998), edited by Martha P. Y. Cheung, 9–17. Asia 2000 Publishing, 2002.
  - Chow, R. “Gender and Representation.” In Feminist Consequences: Theory for a New Century, edited by M. Kavka and E. Bronfen, 38–57. Columbia University Press, 2000.
  - Chow, R. “Jiqiao, meixue shikong, nüxing zuojia — cong Zhang Ailing de ‘Fengsuo’ tan qi.” In Yuedu Zhang Ailing Guoji Yantaohui Lunwenji, edited by Yang Ze, 161–76. Taipei: Ryefield Publishing, 1999.
  - Chow, R. “Film and Cultural Identity.” In The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, edited by J. Hill and P. C. Gibson, 169–75. Oxford University Press, 1998.
  - Chow, R. “Bulunbulei de youhuo — mantan Chen Kaige dianying Feng yue zhong de aimeixing.” In Identity, Difference and Subjectivity, 217–36. Comparative Literature Institute, Fujen University / Lixu Publishing, 1997.
  - Chow, R. “The Age of the World Target: On the 50th Anniversary of the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb.” In Mass Culture and Everyday Life: A Tabloid Reader, edited by Peter Gibian, 91–107. Routledge, 1997.
  - Chow, R. “Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism.” In A Question of Discipline: Pedagogy, Power, and the Teaching of Cultural Studies, edited by J. Canaan and D. Epstein, 11–26. Westview Press, 1997.
  - Chow, R. “The Dream of a Butterfly.” In Human, All Too Human (Papers from the English Institute), edited by Diana Fuss, 61–92. Routledge, 1996.
  - Chow, R. “Women in the Holocene: Ethnicity, Fantasy, and the Film ’The Joy Luck Club’.” In Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life, edited by Carmen Luke, 204–21. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 1996.
  - Chow, R. “Cavando un Viejo Pozo: El Trabajo de la Fantasia Social.” In Feminismo y Teoría Fílmica, edited by Giulia Colaizzi, 135–61. Madrid: Colección EUTOPÍAS/MAIOR, 1995.
  - Chow, R. “Where Have All the Natives Gone?” In Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question, edited by Angelika Bammer, 125–51. Indiana University Press, 1994.
  - Chow, R. “Love Me, Master; Love Me, Son’: A Cultural Other Pornographically Constructed in Time.” In Boundaries in China, edited by John Hay, 243–56. London: Reaktion Books Limited Publishers, 1994.
  - Chow, R. “In the Name of Comparative Literature.” In Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, edited by Charles Bernheimer, 107–16. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
  - Chow, R. “Media, materia, migraciones.” In EUTOPÍAS, 2a Época, Documentos de Trabajo, translated by Manuel Talens, Vol. 39. Centro de Semiótica y Teoría del espectáculo, Universitat de València & Asociación Vasca de Semiótica, 1994.
  - Chow, R. “Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony.” In Gender and Sexuality in 20th-Century Chinese Literature and Society, edited by Tonglin Lu, 23–45. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 1993.
  - Chow, R. “Entry on “Race/Imperialism".” In Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Critical Dictionary, edited by Elizabeth Wright, 361–64. Basil Blackwell, 1992.
  - Chow, R. “Violence in the Other Country: China as Crisis, Spectacle, and Woman.” In Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by Chandra Mohanty et al, 81–100. Indiana University Press, 1991.
  - Chow, R. “Autòmatas postmodernos.” In Feminismo y Teoría Del Discurso, 67–85. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1990.
  - Chow, R. “It’s you, and not me’: Domination and ‘Othering’ in Theorizing the ‘Third World’.” In Coming to Terms: Feminism/Theory/Politics, edited by Elizabeth Weed, 152–61. Routledge, 1989.
  - Chow, R. “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Female Melancholy as Fiction and Commodity.” In Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Selected Papers in Asian Studies, Vol. 21, 1986.
- Other Articles
  - Chow, R. “Close Reading and the Global University (Notes on Localism).” American Comparative Literature Association Website (“Futures” Section), 2015.
  - Chow, R. “Unacceptable Suffering: Rey Chow on Michael Haneke.” Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work.” Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work, chapter 3.” Edited by Cesar Dominguez. Arcos Libros, S.L., 2013.
  - Chow, R. “After the Passage of the Beast: ’False Documentary’ Aspirations, Acousmatic Complications.” Edited by V. Kamensky and J. Rohrhuber. Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2013.
  - Chow, R. “Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility.” Taipei: Ryefield Publishing Co., 2012.
- Journal Issues
  - . J. “The Sense of Sound.” Edited by R. Chow and J. Steintrager. Differences, 2011.
  - . Nico. “Between Languages.” Edited by R. Chow and R. Bensmaïa. Comparative Literature Studies. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  - . Charis. “Writing in the Realm of the Senses.” Edited by R. Chow. Differences. Duke University Press, 1999.
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