{"id":8570,"date":"2026-09-21T18:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/2026\/09\/21\/article-fat-fat-lydia-shum-as-the-most-lovable-hong-kong-comedienne\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:07:51","slug":"article-fat-fat-lydia-shum-as-the-most-lovable-hong-kong-comedienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/article-fat-fat-lydia-shum-as-the-most-lovable-hong-kong-comedienne\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] &#8220;Fat Fat&#8221;: Lydia Shum as the Most Lovable Hong Kong Comedienne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Yung-Hang Bruce Lai<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em>Starring Asian Femininities: Subverting the Gaze, Reclaiming the Frame<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/starring-asian-femininities-9781350434400\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/starring-asian-femininities-9781350434400\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excerpt<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This chapter focuses on Shum\u2019s stardom in comedy films in the 1980s and early 1990s, using the It\u2019s a Mad, Mad, Mad World (MMMW hereafter) series \u2013 which marks her most influential and successful screen performances \u2013 as the principal case study.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a fuller intercultural comparison with Western cases would exceed the scope of this chapter, this analysis engages with Kathleen Rowe\u2019s \u2018unruly woman\u2019 framework, developed to analyse representations of fat comediennes in the West, to demonstrate how Shum\u2019s image as an amiable fat woman enriches that framework.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Shum\u2019s television career spanned from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, across variety and drama, a systematic study of her screen career or a comparative analysis of her film and television performance would exceed the scope of a single chapter, due to both the volume and inaccessibility of her television programmes. In the main analysis, I refer to Shum\u2019s television work only where it clarifies her film performances.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the scarcity of English-language literature on Shum \u2013 a handful of studies on her films, and far less on her television career \u2013 this chapter is, to my knowledge, the first academic work focusing on Shum as a comedienne in English, and I hope the investigation of her films in this chapter will lay a foundation for future study of her television career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Yung-Hang Bruce Lai Source: Starring Asian Femininities: Subverting the Gaze, Reclaiming the Frame Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/starring-asian-femininities-9781350434400\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/starring-asian-femininities-9781350434400\/<\/a> Excerpt This chapter focuses on Shum\u2019s stardom in comedy films in the 1980s and early 1990s, using the It\u2019s a Mad, Mad, Mad World (MMMW hereafter) series \u2013 which marks her most influential and successful screen performances \u2013 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145170531,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[776957933],"tags":[776958324,776958076,776958419],"class_list":["post-8570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--en","tag-hong-kong-cinema","tag-newsroom","tag-star-studies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pai6UY-2ee","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8583,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/article-post-feminist-sensibility-and-the-trans-border-stardom-of-ann-hsu-a-cross-strait-analysis\/","url_meta":{"origin":8570,"position":0},"title":"[Article] Post-Feminist Sensibility and the Trans-border Stardom of Ann Hsu: A Cross-strait Analysis","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"23\/09\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Yuan Li Source: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Link: https:\/\/intellectdiscover.com\/content\/journals\/10.1386\/eapc_00166_1 Abstract This article examines the recent rapid rise of Taiwanese actor Ann Hsu\u2019s stardom by foregrounding her multiracial identity as a critical site of negotiation in Chinese-language popular culture across the Taiwan Strait. 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