Song Hwee Lim is Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (2014) and founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.

What is most remarkable about Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power is Lim's employment of the concept of "soft power," which is borrowed from political science. ..The eloquent prose, neat conceptualization, and regimented organization exemplify quality academic writing. ..It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in New Taiwan Cinema, art cinema, and the study of soft power.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Chinese Romanization, translation, and citation List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Cinema as Soft Power, Soft Power as Method Chapter 1 The Historiographical Turn: Documenting Taiwan New Cinema as Cross-cultural CinephiliaChapter 2 The Aural Turn: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Gendered and Material VoicesChapter 3 The Medial Turn: Tsai Ming-liang's Slow Walk to the Museum Chapter 4 The Industrial Turn: Ang Lee's Transpacific Crossings as Cultural BrokerageChapter 5 The Affective Turn: "Little Freshness" as Regional Soft PowerEpilogue Alien Resurrection or, the Afterlives of Taiwan New Cinema Filmography Glossary of Chinese Characters Works Cited Index

Song Hwee Lim is Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (2014) and founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.

What is most remarkable about Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power is Lim's employment of the concept of "soft power," which is borrowed from political science. ..The eloquent prose, neat conceptualization, and regimented organization exemplify quality academic writing. ..It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in New Taiwan Cinema, art cinema, and the study of soft power.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Chinese Romanization, translation, and citation List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Cinema as Soft Power, Soft Power as Method Chapter 1 The Historiographical Turn: Documenting Taiwan New Cinema as Cross-cultural CinephiliaChapter 2 The Aural Turn: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Gendered and Material VoicesChapter 3 The Medial Turn: Tsai Ming-liang's Slow Walk to the Museum Chapter 4 The Industrial Turn: Ang Lee's Transpacific Crossings as Cultural BrokerageChapter 5 The Affective Turn: "Little Freshness" as Regional Soft PowerEpilogue Alien Resurrection or, the Afterlives of Taiwan New Cinema Filmography Glossary of Chinese Characters Works Cited Index

Song Hwee Lim is Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (2014) and founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.

What is most remarkable about Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power is Lim's employment of the concept of "soft power," which is borrowed from political science. ..The eloquent prose, neat conceptualization, and regimented organization exemplify quality academic writing. ..It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in New Taiwan Cinema, art cinema, and the study of soft power.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Chinese Romanization, translation, and citation List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Cinema as Soft Power, Soft Power as Method Chapter 1 The Historiographical Turn: Documenting Taiwan New Cinema as Cross-cultural CinephiliaChapter 2 The Aural Turn: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Gendered and Material VoicesChapter 3 The Medial Turn: Tsai Ming-liang's Slow Walk to the Museum Chapter 4 The Industrial Turn: Ang Lee's Transpacific Crossings as Cultural BrokerageChapter 5 The Affective Turn: "Little Freshness" as Regional Soft PowerEpilogue Alien Resurrection or, the Afterlives of Taiwan New Cinema Filmography Glossary of Chinese Characters Works Cited Index