Kenneth Chan is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Northern Colorado Dr Andrew Stuckey is an independent scholar.

China’s haunted screens boast a rich legacy of uncanny, bizarre, grotesque, horrific, mystical and paranormal tales dating back to the silent era. Emerging from a period in which the supernatural ran afoul of censors in the Peoples’ Republic of China, the resurgence of films rooted in "superstition" merits serious critical attention. This anthology provides penetrating insight into this re-enchantment seen in films by auteurs such as Zhang Yimou (PRC), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Tsui Hark (Hong Kong) as well as in reimagined classics such as Journey to the West in its multiple manifestations on screen.

• Introduction: The Fantastic as Sino-Enchantment in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas, Kenneth Chan and Andrew StuckeyVisuality/Virtuality1. Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles, Jason McGrath2. The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall, Dan North 3. The Blockbuster Breakthrough: The Fantastic in Hero, Li YangGenres of Sino-Enchantment4. The Restrained Fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Andrew Stuckey 5. An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua, Shi-Yan Chao6. Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema, Tom Cunliffe7. Chick Flick Fantasy and Postfeminism in Chinese Cinema: 20 Once Again as a Transnational Remake, Elaine Chung8. The Sacred Spectacle: Subverting Skepticism in Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films, Ian PettigrewEthics9. Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Coproduced (Eco)Cinema, Yiman Wang 10. Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt, Mei Yang 11. Transforming Tripitaka: Toward a (Buddhist) Planetary Ethics in Stephen Chow’s Adaptation of Journey to the West, Kenneth ChanCoda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis, Kenneth Chan and Andrew StuckeySelected Filmography Bibliography

Kenneth Chan is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Northern Colorado Dr Andrew Stuckey is an independent scholar.

China’s haunted screens boast a rich legacy of uncanny, bizarre, grotesque, horrific, mystical and paranormal tales dating back to the silent era. Emerging from a period in which the supernatural ran afoul of censors in the Peoples’ Republic of China, the resurgence of films rooted in "superstition" merits serious critical attention. This anthology provides penetrating insight into this re-enchantment seen in films by auteurs such as Zhang Yimou (PRC), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Tsui Hark (Hong Kong) as well as in reimagined classics such as Journey to the West in its multiple manifestations on screen.

• Introduction: The Fantastic as Sino-Enchantment in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas, Kenneth Chan and Andrew StuckeyVisuality/Virtuality1. Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles, Jason McGrath2. The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall, Dan North 3. The Blockbuster Breakthrough: The Fantastic in Hero, Li YangGenres of Sino-Enchantment4. The Restrained Fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Andrew Stuckey 5. An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua, Shi-Yan Chao6. Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema, Tom Cunliffe7. Chick Flick Fantasy and Postfeminism in Chinese Cinema: 20 Once Again as a Transnational Remake, Elaine Chung8. The Sacred Spectacle: Subverting Skepticism in Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films, Ian PettigrewEthics9. Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Coproduced (Eco)Cinema, Yiman Wang 10. Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt, Mei Yang 11. Transforming Tripitaka: Toward a (Buddhist) Planetary Ethics in Stephen Chow’s Adaptation of Journey to the West, Kenneth ChanCoda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis, Kenneth Chan and Andrew StuckeySelected Filmography Bibliography

Kenneth Chan is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Northern Colorado Dr Andrew Stuckey is an independent scholar.

China’s haunted screens boast a rich legacy of uncanny, bizarre, grotesque, horrific, mystical and paranormal tales dating back to the silent era. Emerging from a period in which the supernatural ran afoul of censors in the Peoples’ Republic of China, the resurgence of films rooted in "superstition" merits serious critical attention. This anthology provides penetrating insight into this re-enchantment seen in films by auteurs such as Zhang Yimou (PRC), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Tsui Hark (Hong Kong) as well as in reimagined classics such as Journey to the West in its multiple manifestations on screen.

• Introduction: The Fantastic as Sino-Enchantment in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas, Kenneth Chan and Andrew StuckeyVisuality/Virtuality1. Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles, Jason McGrath2. The Spectacle of Co-Production in The Great Wall, Dan North 3. The Blockbuster Breakthrough: The Fantastic in Hero, Li YangGenres of Sino-Enchantment4. The Restrained Fantastic in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Andrew Stuckey 5. An Auteurist Journey through the Fantastic Mode: A Case Study of Ho Meng-hua, Shi-Yan Chao6. Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema, Tom Cunliffe7. Chick Flick Fantasy and Postfeminism in Chinese Cinema: 20 Once Again as a Transnational Remake, Elaine Chung8. The Sacred Spectacle: Subverting Skepticism in Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Films, Ian PettigrewEthics9. Almost Wild, But Not Quite: The Indexical and the Fantastic Animal Other in China-Coproduced (Eco)Cinema, Yiman Wang 10. Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt, Mei Yang 11. Transforming Tripitaka: Toward a (Buddhist) Planetary Ethics in Stephen Chow’s Adaptation of Journey to the West, Kenneth ChanCoda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis, Kenneth Chan and Andrew StuckeySelected Filmography Bibliography