Pt. I. Nation-Building, National Cinema, Transnational Cinema. Anti-Imperialism and Film Censorship During the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1937 / Zhiwei Xiao. ; Two Stage Sisters: The Blossoming of a Revolutionary Aesthetic / Gina Marchetti. ; From "Minority Film" to "Minority Discourse": Questions of Nationhood and Ethnicity in Chinese Cinema / Yingjin Zhang . ; National Cinema, Cultural Critique, Transnational Capital: The Films of Zhang Yimou / Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu.
Pt. II . The Politics of Cultural and National Identity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Hong Kong . Constructing a Nation: Taiwanese History and the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien / June Yip. ; The Diaspora in Postmodern Taiwan and Hong Kong Film: Framing Stan Lai's The Peach Blossom Land with Allen Fong's Ah Ying / Jon Kowallis. ; Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee / Wei Ming Darious, Eileen Fung. ; Transnational Action: John Woo, Hong Kong, Hollywood / Anne T. Ciecko . ; Jackie Chan and the Cultural Dynamics of Global Entertainment / Steve Fore .
Pt. III . Engendering History and Nationhood: Cross-Cultural and Gendered Perspectives . Reading Formations and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine / E. Ann Kaplan. ; The New Woman Incident: Cinema, Scandal, and Spectacle in 1935 Shanghai / Kristine Harris. ; Gendered Perspective: The Construction and Representation of Subjectivity and Sexuality in Ju Dou / Shuqin Cui. ; The Concubine and the Figure of History: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine / Wendy Larson. ; Narrative Images of the Historical Passion: Those Other Women - On the Alterity in the New Wave of Chinese Cinema / Yi Zheng