This short paper, will posit that James Lee’s work defies Chineseness and Malaysianness, just as both ethnic boundaries and national politics serve to enframe, locate, or marginalize subjects. Indeed, a study of Lee’s work reveals Lee as the prototypical independent Malaysian filmmaker who is influenced by numerous filmmakers outside of Malaysia.
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Gaik Cheng Khoo (2004) studied this question.