Lin Feng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester (UK) and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She currently is serving as the Honorary Secretary for the British Association for Chinese Studies.

"Opening this anthology presents the reader with the extraordinary pleasure of discovering a selection of essays that is highly diverse yet shares fresh vitality. Ranging from the cinema of the 1930s Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo to the “new mainstream” movies of the present-day People’s Republic, and from textual analysis to media industries research and archive work, they confirm how much more Chinese cinema – defined as broadly as possible – has to offer."- Chris Berry, King’s College London

• Introduction Lin Feng1 A Cinematic Anatomy of Place: Revisiting Manchuria in Colonial FilmsYufei Li2 The Legends of Ma Yongzhen and Ma Suzhen: From Shanghai Silent Film to Hong Kong Martial Arts CinemaPaul Bevan3 Voicing the West: Dubbing Artists and Invisible Labour Behind the Socialist ScreenLin Feng4 The City as Marginalised Space: A History of the Urban in Chinese Socialist Animation (1950s–1980s) Paul Kendall5 Crazy Bumpkins and City Slickers: Anticipating the Hong Kong New Wave in Shaw Brothers’ 1970s ComediesFraser Elliott6 A New Inception: Reintroducing Film Genres in 1980s People’s Republic of China CinemaStefano Locati7 The Qiong Yao Phenomenon and Chinese Film of the 1980s Xuelin Zhou8 Ebola Syndrome (1996) and the Marginalisation of Popular Taste in Hong Kong Film HistoryAndy Willis9 The Star Text of Anita Mui: Gender, Genre, and Chineseness in Hong Kong CinemaChin-Pang Lei10 An Alternative Romance: The Gendered Codes in New Taiwanese‑language MelodramaYuan Li11 The Look, Hook, and Book with Chinese Characteristics of the New Mainstream Film The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)Stephen Andriano-Moore and Haige Cui

Lin Feng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester (UK) and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She currently is serving as the Honorary Secretary for the British Association for Chinese Studies.

"Opening this anthology presents the reader with the extraordinary pleasure of discovering a selection of essays that is highly diverse yet shares fresh vitality. Ranging from the cinema of the 1930s Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo to the “new mainstream” movies of the present-day People’s Republic, and from textual analysis to media industries research and archive work, they confirm how much more Chinese cinema – defined as broadly as possible – has to offer."- Chris Berry, King’s College London

• Introduction Lin Feng1 A Cinematic Anatomy of Place: Revisiting Manchuria in Colonial FilmsYufei Li2 The Legends of Ma Yongzhen and Ma Suzhen: From Shanghai Silent Film to Hong Kong Martial Arts CinemaPaul Bevan3 Voicing the West: Dubbing Artists and Invisible Labour Behind the Socialist ScreenLin Feng4 The City as Marginalised Space: A History of the Urban in Chinese Socialist Animation (1950s–1980s) Paul Kendall5 Crazy Bumpkins and City Slickers: Anticipating the Hong Kong New Wave in Shaw Brothers’ 1970s ComediesFraser Elliott6 A New Inception: Reintroducing Film Genres in 1980s People’s Republic of China CinemaStefano Locati7 The Qiong Yao Phenomenon and Chinese Film of the 1980s Xuelin Zhou8 Ebola Syndrome (1996) and the Marginalisation of Popular Taste in Hong Kong Film HistoryAndy Willis9 The Star Text of Anita Mui: Gender, Genre, and Chineseness in Hong Kong CinemaChin-Pang Lei10 An Alternative Romance: The Gendered Codes in New Taiwanese‑language MelodramaYuan Li11 The Look, Hook, and Book with Chinese Characteristics of the New Mainstream Film The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)Stephen Andriano-Moore and Haige Cui

Lin Feng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester (UK) and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She currently is serving as the Honorary Secretary for the British Association for Chinese Studies.

"Opening this anthology presents the reader with the extraordinary pleasure of discovering a selection of essays that is highly diverse yet shares fresh vitality. Ranging from the cinema of the 1930s Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo to the “new mainstream” movies of the present-day People’s Republic, and from textual analysis to media industries research and archive work, they confirm how much more Chinese cinema – defined as broadly as possible – has to offer."- Chris Berry, King’s College London

• Introduction Lin Feng1 A Cinematic Anatomy of Place: Revisiting Manchuria in Colonial FilmsYufei Li2 The Legends of Ma Yongzhen and Ma Suzhen: From Shanghai Silent Film to Hong Kong Martial Arts CinemaPaul Bevan3 Voicing the West: Dubbing Artists and Invisible Labour Behind the Socialist ScreenLin Feng4 The City as Marginalised Space: A History of the Urban in Chinese Socialist Animation (1950s–1980s) Paul Kendall5 Crazy Bumpkins and City Slickers: Anticipating the Hong Kong New Wave in Shaw Brothers’ 1970s ComediesFraser Elliott6 A New Inception: Reintroducing Film Genres in 1980s People’s Republic of China CinemaStefano Locati7 The Qiong Yao Phenomenon and Chinese Film of the 1980s Xuelin Zhou8 Ebola Syndrome (1996) and the Marginalisation of Popular Taste in Hong Kong Film HistoryAndy Willis9 The Star Text of Anita Mui: Gender, Genre, and Chineseness in Hong Kong CinemaChin-Pang Lei10 An Alternative Romance: The Gendered Codes in New Taiwanese‑language MelodramaYuan Li11 The Look, Hook, and Book with Chinese Characteristics of the New Mainstream Film The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)Stephen Andriano-Moore and Haige Cui