Brian Hu is Assistant Professor in Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. He is also the Artistic Director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

Both theoretically rigorous and fun to read, Worldly Desires is a fully cinematic exploration of how the Sinophone cinemas of Taiwan and Hong Kong have imagined exhilarating aspirations to transition from local to world citizenship, as well as more fraught yearnings for global recognition.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Melodramas of Arrival and Departure: jet-set students in 1970s Taiwanese romanceChapter 2: ABCs, Mixed-race Stars, and other Monsters of GlobalizationChapter 3: Setting the Stage: Hong Kong musical stars take on the worldChapter 4: All the Right Moves: mobile heroes and the Shaolin Temple filmChapter 5: The Cosmopolitan Brand: film policy as cultural work in the international film marketChapter 6: Conclusion

Brian Hu is Assistant Professor in Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. He is also the Artistic Director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

Both theoretically rigorous and fun to read, Worldly Desires is a fully cinematic exploration of how the Sinophone cinemas of Taiwan and Hong Kong have imagined exhilarating aspirations to transition from local to world citizenship, as well as more fraught yearnings for global recognition.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Melodramas of Arrival and Departure: jet-set students in 1970s Taiwanese romanceChapter 2: ABCs, Mixed-race Stars, and other Monsters of GlobalizationChapter 3: Setting the Stage: Hong Kong musical stars take on the worldChapter 4: All the Right Moves: mobile heroes and the Shaolin Temple filmChapter 5: The Cosmopolitan Brand: film policy as cultural work in the international film marketChapter 6: Conclusion

Brian Hu is Assistant Professor in Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. He is also the Artistic Director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

Both theoretically rigorous and fun to read, Worldly Desires is a fully cinematic exploration of how the Sinophone cinemas of Taiwan and Hong Kong have imagined exhilarating aspirations to transition from local to world citizenship, as well as more fraught yearnings for global recognition.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Melodramas of Arrival and Departure: jet-set students in 1970s Taiwanese romanceChapter 2: ABCs, Mixed-race Stars, and other Monsters of GlobalizationChapter 3: Setting the Stage: Hong Kong musical stars take on the worldChapter 4: All the Right Moves: mobile heroes and the Shaolin Temple filmChapter 5: The Cosmopolitan Brand: film policy as cultural work in the international film marketChapter 6: Conclusion