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Problem-Based Medical Ca...
by Chu Pak Lau
Center Stage is widely recognized as a classic of the New Hong Kong cinema. The film's status has until now been attributed to the fascinating way in which Kwan combines a reconstruction of Ruan Lingyu's tragic life as a Chinese film star with sequences documenting the making ...
(2007)
The Asian Modern
Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore
Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. While there is now a substantial body of literature on celebrity culture in Australia, Europe and the Americas, this is the first book-length exploration of celebrity in China. It examine...
(2007)
The Economic Integration...
Real and Financial Linkages and the Prospects for Currency Union
by Yin Wong Cheung, Menzie D. Chinn, and Eiji Fujii
This anthology is the first book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world: Chinese and Western epistemes of nature and hu...
(2007)
Yuen Woo Ping's WING CHUN
Yuen Woo Ping's kung fu comedy based on the legendary female character Wing Chun is a landmark of action choreography and heroic womanhood in Chinese cinema. This book explores Wing Chun's narrative representation of femininity and the martial arts genre, its history, traditio...
(2007)
Uneasy Partners
The Conflict Between Public Interest and Private Profit in Hong Kong
Infernal Affairs has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous critical attention. In this book, Gina Marchetti explores the way this example of Hong Kong's cinematic eclecticism has crossed borders as a story, a commercial product and a work of a...
(2007)
A Social History of the ...
Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China
Rogue Flows brings together some of the best and most knowledgeable writers on consumption and cultural theory to chart the under-explored field of cultural flows and consumption across different regions in Asia, and the importance of these flows in constituting contemporary A...
(2006)
Poetry against Torture
Criticism, History and the Human
by Paul A. Bova
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution and consumption of TV drama, the international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The exam...
(2006)
Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849
The Life and Work of a Major Scholar-Official in Nineteenth-Century China before the Opium War
Ruan Ling-yu: The Goddess of Shanghai tells the story of one of the greatest Chinese movie stars of the silent era from humble origins to tragic death at the height of her career.Shanghai between the two world wars was a city of intrigues, political change, corruption, vice, s...
(2006)
Resettlement in the Thre...
by Yan Tan
With the increasing globalization of culture, American literature has become a significant body of text for classrooms outside of the United States. Bringing together essays from a wide range of scholars in a number of countries, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and t...
(2006)
The Chinese Exotic
Modern Diasporic Femininity
by Olivia Khoo
Art, politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate, and elemental, and nowhere more so than in the film industry. Understanding this interplay in the era of market reform and globalization is essential to understanding main...
(2006)
The Shek Kip Mei Myth
Squatters, Fires and Colonial Rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963
by Alan Smart
Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theatre has managed to shrug off its colonial sh...
(2006)
Island on the Edge: Taiw...
Taiwan New Cinema and After
by Chris Berry and Feii Lu
This volume discusses the urban history and cultural landscape of Singapore in relation to theories of textual dialogics, multiculturalism and the cultural and political unconscious. Multidisciplinary in approach, it takes as its data not only government policy and official di...
(2005)
New Music in China and T...
by Helen Woo
Taking an innovative, postcolonial, feminist perspective on transformations in the Philippine nation in the context of globalization, Fantasy-Production provides a theoretical framework for understanding the nationalist and postcolonial capitalist logics shaping the actions of...
(2005)
Working with Youth-at-Ri...
Macau, on the threshold of the twentieth-first century, is perhaps a harbinger of a new urban culture. Having been nurtured by the sharply constrasting legacies of China and Portugal, this unique city manages to meld cultural differences and avoid the destructiveness of ethnic...
(2005)
Changing Identities of t...
by Jennifer Cus... and Gungwu Wang
"Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere
(2010)
Hong Kong Connections
Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Chin...
Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers
(2010)
Mei Lan-fang
The Life and Times of a Peking Actor
by A.C. Scott
Mei Lan-fang came from a famous actor family-the profession is often hereditary in China-and this story of his life is drawn mainly from his own reminiscences and from converstations with the author. He was a national figure whose name was a household wor
(2010)
Celebrity in China
This book is an inter-disciplinary study of the subject of anime, a popular form of Japanese animation. Using a variety of research methods and spanning a period of nine years including intensive fieldwork conducted in Japan and other parts of Asia, the s
(2010)
Frames of Anime
Culture and Image-Building
by Ying Zhu and Stanley Rosen
This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce.
(2010)
The Malacofauna of Hong ...
by Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys
This is the first book-length exploration of celebrity in the People’s Republic of China. It examines how international norms of celebrity production interact with those operating in China. The book comprises case studies from popular culture (film, music
(2010)
