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List of illustrations | p. ix |
List of tables | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xii |
List of abbreviations | p. xiv |
Introduction: National cinema and China | p. 1 |
Cinema and national traditions, 1896-1929 | p. 13 |
Introduction: early cinema | p. 13 |
Cinema as attractions, 1896-1921 | p. 16 |
Cinema as narration, 1922-6 | p. 22 |
Cinema and speculations, 1927-9 | p. 37 |
Critical issues: arts, artists and artistic theory | p. 51 |
Conclusion: a growing sense of nationalism | p. 57 |
Cinema and the nation-people, 1930-49 | p. 58 |
Introduction: a 'golden age' period | p. 58 |
Prewar cinema, 1930-7 | p. 59 |
Wartime cinema, 1937-45 | p. 83 |
Postwar cinema, 1946-9 | p. 95 |
Critical issues: cinema and modernity | p. 104 |
Conclusion: in the name of the nation-people | p. 111 |
Cinematic reinvention of the national in Taiwan, 1896-1978 | p. 113 |
Introduction: a maturing industry | p. 113 |
Difficult postwar transition, 1945-54 | p. 114 |
Two competing cinemas, 1955-69 | p. 125 |
Political and industrial restructuring, 1970-8 | p. 142 |
Conclusion: cinematic reinvention of the national | p. 147 |
Cinematic revival of the regional in Hong Kong, 1945-78 | p. 150 |
Introduction | p. 150 |
From Shanghai to Hong Kong, 1945-55 | p. 151 |
Competing studios, 1956-65 | p. 163 |
Reinventing genres, 1966-78 | p. 173 |
Conclusion: toward regional imagination | p. 185 |
Cinema and the nation-state in the PRC, 1949-78 | p. 189 |
Introduction: socialist cinema of the PRC | p. 189 |
The nationalization of cinema, 1949-52 | p. 190 |
Toward socialist realism, 1953-65 | p. 199 |
The Cultural Revolution and beyond, 1966-78 | p. 216 |
Conclusion: ideology and subjectivity | p. 223 |
Cinema and national/regional cultures, 1979-89 | p. 225 |
Introduction: new waves in three Chinas | p. 225 |
The PRC: humanism, the avant-garde and commercialism | p. 226 |
New Taiwan Cinema: re-imaging the national | p. 240 |
The Hong Kong new waves: genre, history, identity | p. 249 |
Conclusion: history, culture and nationhood | p. 256 |
Cinema and the transnational imaginary, 1990-2002 | p. 259 |
Introduction: transnational Chinese cinemas | p. 259 |
Hong Kong: of the global and the local | p. 260 |
Taiwan: art cinema beyond borders | p. 271 |
The PRC: post-socialist cinema | p. 281 |
Conclusion: art, capital and politics in the age of the WTO | p. 292 |
Notes | p. 297 |
Bibliography | p. 308 |
Subject index | p. 323 |
Name index | p. 325 |
Film index | p. 327 |
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