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Artists: Dredge Byung'chu Kang

Dredge Byung’chu Kang

Dredge Byung’chu Kang is a PhD/MPH candidate in anthropology and global epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. His critical essays have appeared in Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Asian Studies Review, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. Dredge’s dissertation, “White Asians Wanted: Queer Racialization in Thailand,” argues that middle class Thai gay men are directing their romantic desires toward newly ethno-racialized “white Asians” (light-skinned Asians from developed nations such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan or economically powerful Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia)....

Artist talk: Asst. Prof. Nguyen Tan Hoang and Dredge Byung’chu Kang, MA

Fooled by Love: ViệtKiều Intimacy in Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema Nguyễn Tân Hoàng will look at the portrayal of returning overseas Vietnamese in Charlie Nguyen’s Vietnamese box office hit, the romantic comedy Để Mai tính (Fool for Love) (2010). The two central Việtkiều characters–Mai, young Vietnamese German aspiring singer-songwriter and Hội, a gay Vietnamese American entrepreneur–are set apart from the locals by their non-normative gender and sexual expressions. She shamelessly asserts her career ambitions, while he puts his effeminate mannerisms to good use in his cosmetic company dealings. Both are representatives...