Marking Time in Chinese Cinema

by Jean Ma

Hong Kong University Press

Acknowledgements T his book is the product of a long incubation, and to acknowledge the individuals who have contributed to its journey makes for a significant part of the satisfaction of its completion. I owe much to my teachers at the University of Chicago, Tom Gunning, Miriam Hansen, and Lauren Berlant, who oversaw the dissertation from which this book springs with incredible generosity and rigor. Their insights and feedback at the earliest formative stage of this project helped me to clarify its conceptual stakes and future direction. Their steadfast encouragement has sustained me at every stage of my intellectual development, and the high standard they uphold continues to inspire all of my scholarship and teaching. My immense gratitude goes to my colleagues at Stanford University: Scott Bukatman, for being always an energetic interlocutor, exacting reader, and mentor extraordinaire; and Pavle Levi, for helping me to demystify the monolith of the

(2007)

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