Wendy Gan is an Assistant Professor in the English department of the University of Hong Kong where she divides her research time between her avid interest in Hong Kong film and British women's writing.

"This is a meticulous study that takes the film as a center point from which to examine the evolving relationship between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. Gan's close filmic and narrative reading will delight movie buffs. Through expertly unfolding a complex historical and political context, Gan links the film to other imaginative experiments in cinema that focus on Chinese identity, border-crossing, and gender under the ever-changing conditions of globalism." – Wendy Larson, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

"The author does a superb job of placing the film within the context of Fruit Chan's oeuvre, within the history of Hong Kong art cinema, and specifically within the history of Hong Kong films dealing with the PRC and mainland characters." – Gina Marchetti, Department of Comparative Literature, the University of Hong Kong and Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College