Julie Lee and <i>Trilogy of Lust</i> (1995): pornography, moral panic and the politics of belonging in pre-handover Hong Kong
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Abstract
In 1995 Julie Lee co-wrote, co-directed, co-produced and starred in Hong Kong’s only commercial pornographic film, Trilogy of Lust. Since then, Julie Lee has been vilified in the popular media, leaving her contribution to Hong Kong film culture and beyond either marginalized or obscured within the scholarship on Hong Kong film history. This article provides a needed corrective to Julie Lee’s erasure by examining how the reception of Julie Lee and her film exposed widespread moral panic in Hong Kong around pornography’s impact on youth, along with allied issues of obscenity, morality and freedom of expression in advance of the 1997 handover of the former colony to China. We argue that despite being culturally denigrated, Julie Lee’s hardcore performance in Trilogy of Lust forged an alternative vision of Hong Kong identity to challenge the former colony’s cosmopolitan middle-class version of Hong Kong citizenry, thereby exposing an uneasy tension between the sense of belonging and unbelonging in pre-handover Hong Kong.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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