Companion to Chinese Cinema

Yingjin Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He is the author of The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (1996), Screening China (2002), Chinese National Cinema (2004), and Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (2010); co-author of Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (1998); editor of China in a Polycentric World (1998) and Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (1999); and co-editor of From Underground to Independent (2006) and Chinese Film Stars (2010).

• Acknowledgments viiiList of Figures ixList of Tables xiiiList of Contributors xiv1 General Introduction 1Yingjin ZhangPart I History and Geography 232 Transplanting Melodrama: Observations on the Emergence of Early Chinese Narrative Film 25Zhang Zhen3 Artists, Cadres, and Audiences: Chinese Socialist Cinema, 1949–1978 42Paul Clark4 Directors, Aesthetics, Genres: Chinese Postsocialist Cinema, 1979–2010 57Yingjin Zhang5 Hong Kong Cinema Before 1980 75Robert Chi6 The Hong Kong New Wave 95Gina Marchetti 7 Gender Negotiation in Song Cunshou’s Story of Mother and Taiwan Cinema of the Early 1970s 118James Wicks8 Second Coming: The Legacy of Taiwan New Cinema 133Darrell William Davis Copyrighted MaterialPart II Industry and Institution 1519 Propaganda and Censorship in Chinese Cinema 153Matthew D. Johnson10 Chinese Media Capital in Global Context 179Michael Curtin11 Film and Society in China: The Logic of the Market 197Stanley Rosen12 Vulnerable Chinese Stars: From Xizi to Film Worker 218Sabrina Qiong Yu13 Ports of Entry: Mapping Chinese Cinema’s Multiple Trajectories at International Film Festivals 239Nikki J. Y. Lee and Julian StringerPart III Genre and Representation 26314 In Search of Chinese Film Style(s) and Technique(s) 265James Udden15 Film Genre and Chinese Cinema: A Discourse of Film and Nation 284Stephen Teo16 Performing Documentation: Wu Wenguang and the Performative Turn of New Chinese Documentary 299Qi Wang17 Chinese Women’s Cinema 318Lingzhen Wang18 From Urban Films to Urban Cinema: The Emergence of a Critical Concept 346Yomi BraesterPart IV Arts and Media 35919 The Intertwinement of Chinese Film and Literature: Choices and Strategies in Adaptations 361Liyan Qin20 Diary of a Homecoming: (Dis-)Inhabiting the Theatrical in Postwar Shanghai Cinema 377Weihong Bao21 Cinema and the Visual Arts of China 400Jerome Silbergeld22 From Mountain Songs to Silvery Moonlight: Some Notes on Music in Chinese Cinema 417Jerome Silbergeld23 Cross-Fertilization in Chinese Cinema and Television: A Strategic Turn in Cultural Policy 429Ying Zhu and Bruce Robinson24 Chinese Cinema and Technology 449Gary G. XuPart V Issues and Debates 46725 Chinese Film Scholarship in Chinese 469Chen Xihe26 Chinese Film Scholarship in English 484Chris Berry27 The Return of the Repressed: Masculinity and Sexuality Reconsidered 499Shuqin Cui28 Homosexuality and Queer Aesthetics 518Helen Hok-Sze Leung29 Alter-centering Chinese Cinema: The Diasporic Formation 535Yiman Wang30 The Absent American: Figuring the United States in Chinese Cinema of the Reform Era 552Michael BerryBibliography 575Filmography 628Index 655