The Chinese cinema book

Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Coming of Age of Chinese Cinema Studies • Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward
Part One: Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies
	1. Transnational Chinese Cinema Studies • Chris Berry
	2. National Cinema as Translocal Practice: Reflections on Chinese Film Historiography • Yingjin Zhang
	3. Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora • Gina Marchetti
	4. Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography • Song Hwee Lim
Part Two: Early Cinema to 1949
	5. Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China • Xuelei Huang and Zhiwei Xiao
	6. The Making of a National Cinema: Shanghai Films of the 1930s • Laikwan Pang
	7. Wartime Cinema: Reconfiguration and Border Navigation • Yiman Wang
	8. Chinese Film-making on the Eve of the Communist Revolution • Paul G. Pickowicz
Part Three: The Forgotten Period: 1949–80
	9. The Remodelling of a National Cinema: Chinese Films of the Seventeen Years (1949–66) • Julian Ward
	10. Healthy Realism in Taiwan, 1964–80: Film Style, Cultural Policies and Mandarin Cinema • Guo-Juin Hong
	11. The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema: Emergence, Development and Decline • Stephen Teo
Part Four: The New Waves
	12. The Fifth Generation: A Reassessment • Wendy Larson
	13. Taiwan New Cinema and Its Legacy • Tonglin Lu
	14. The Hong Kong New Wave: A Critical Reappraisal • Vivian P. Y. Lee
Part Five: Stars, Auteurs and Genres
	15. Dragons Forever: Chinese Martial Arts Stars • Leon Hunt
	16. The Contemporary Wuxia Revival: Genre Remaking and the Hollywood Transnational Factor • Kenneth Chan
	17. On the Shoulders of Giants: Tsai Ming-liang, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and the Struggles of Second Generation Auteurism • James Udden
	18. The Urban Generation: Underground and Independent Films from the PRC • Jason McGrath
	19. Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema • Yomi Braester
	20. Contemporary Meta-Chinese Film Stardom and Transnational Transmedia Celebrity • Anne Ciecko
Afterword: Liquidity of Being • Rey Chow
Appendix 1: Book-length Studies of Chinese Cinema in the English Language • Wan-Jui Wang, Louise Williams and Song Hwee Lim
Appendix 2: Chinese Names • Zou Yijie
Appendix 3: Chinese Film Titles • Zou Yijie
Index