The Chinese Cinema Book

This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Chapters by leading international scholars are grouped in thematic sections addressing key historical periods, film movements, genres, stars and auteurs, and the industrial and technological contexts of cinema in Greater China.
Song Hwee Lim is Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas (2006), co-editor of Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film (2006), and founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
Julian Ward is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
"Comprehensive, authoritative and a great read." --Linda Mitchell, Seminar Tutor, Cardiff University, UK