Julie Lee and <i>Trilogy of Lust</i> (1995): pornography, moral panic and the politics of belonging in pre-handover Hong Kong
Bibliographic record
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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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".