Qiliang He is Professor and Head of the Department of History at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Rise of Movie Theaters in ShanghaiChapter 2: Cinema, Colonialism, and Contact Zone: Movie Theaters and City GovernanceChapter 3: Dangerous Pleasure: Cinemagoing, Health, and Public SafetyChapter 4: The Volga Boatman: Cinemagoing, Anti-Bolshevism, and Censorship in the 1920sChapter 5: Cosmopolitanisms and Nationalisms: Struggles against Hollywood Films in the Late 1920sEpilogue: Cinema: The Meeting Point of Cosmopolitanisms in Twentieth-century ChinaBibliographyIndex

Qiliang He is Professor and Head of the Department of History at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Rise of Movie Theaters in ShanghaiChapter 2: Cinema, Colonialism, and Contact Zone: Movie Theaters and City GovernanceChapter 3: Dangerous Pleasure: Cinemagoing, Health, and Public SafetyChapter 4: The Volga Boatman: Cinemagoing, Anti-Bolshevism, and Censorship in the 1920sChapter 5: Cosmopolitanisms and Nationalisms: Struggles against Hollywood Films in the Late 1920sEpilogue: Cinema: The Meeting Point of Cosmopolitanisms in Twentieth-century ChinaBibliographyIndex

Qiliang He is Professor and Head of the Department of History at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Rise of Movie Theaters in ShanghaiChapter 2: Cinema, Colonialism, and Contact Zone: Movie Theaters and City GovernanceChapter 3: Dangerous Pleasure: Cinemagoing, Health, and Public SafetyChapter 4: The Volga Boatman: Cinemagoing, Anti-Bolshevism, and Censorship in the 1920sChapter 5: Cosmopolitanisms and Nationalisms: Struggles against Hollywood Films in the Late 1920sEpilogue: Cinema: The Meeting Point of Cosmopolitanisms in Twentieth-century ChinaBibliographyIndex