Yin and yang Da Cidian") enter "yangyin" *陽陰. While "yang" and "yin" can occur together in context, "yangyin" is not synonymous with "yinyang". The linguistic term "irreversible binomial" refers to a collocation of two words A-B that cannot be idiomatically reversed as B-A, for example, English "cat and mouse" (not *"mouse and cat") and "friend or foe" (not *"foe or friend"). Similarly, the usual pattern among Chinese binomial compounds is for positive A and negative B, where the A word is dominant or privileged over B, for example, "tiandi" 天地 "heaven and earth" and "nannü" 男女 "men and women". "Yinyang" meaning "dark and
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema in spite of social conservatism and government censorship. Chia-Chi Wu writes, 'In its queering of Chinese-language film– reclaiming or recreating Chinese texts for queer interpretation – "Yang±Yin" undercuts heteronormativity and patriarchy foundational to nationalist discourses of Chinese communities and creates a queer imaginary that is ‘pan-Chinese’.' Kwan draws attention to the coded or subtle queerness of Chinese cinema. For example, director Zhang Che describes, 'possible 'Freudian' readings' of his film "The Slaughter In Xi'an" (1990), thus, according to Fran Martin, 'validating the power of the spectators agency and never denying the erotic tensions bubbling beneath supposedly chaste canons of Confuscian