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Introduction: Chinese cinemas and the art of extrapolation / Carlos Rojas
Part I: History. D.W. Griffith and the rise of Chinese cinema in early 1920s Shanghai / Jianhua Chen ; Ombres Chinoises : split screens and parallel lives in love and duty / Kristine Harris ; Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the polemics of screening China / David Der-wei Wang ; A national cinema for a puppet state : the Manchurian Motion Picture Association / Jie Li ; A genealogy of cinephilia in the Maoist period / Yomi Braester ; Cold War politics and Hong Kong Mandarin cinema / Poshek Fu ; Conceiving cross-border communities : mobile women in recent Hong Kong cinema / Tsung-yi Michelle Huang ; Taiwan new cinema : small nation with soft power / Song Hwee Lim ; Chinese cinema with Hollywood characteristics, or How The karate kid became a Chinese film / Michael Berry ; World as picture and ruination : on Jia Zhangke's still life as world cinema / Pheng Cheah
Part II: Form. The opera film in Chinese cinema : cultural nationalism and cinematic form / Stephen Teo ; A small history of Wenyi / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh ; Art, politics, and internationalism : Korean war films in Chinese cinema / Ban Wang ; Edification through affection : the Cultural Revolution films, 1974-1976 / Gary Xu ; Reforming vengeance : Kung Fu and the racial melancholia of Chinese masculinity / Michael Eng ; Desire and distribution : queer/Chinese/cinema / Sean Metzger ; Thirdspace between flows and places : Chinese independent documentary and social theories of space and locality / Yingjin Zhang ; From anticorruption to officialdom : the transformation of Chinese dynasty TV drama / Ying Zhu ; New media : large screens in China / Audrey Yue ; Online small screen cinema : the cinema of attractions and the emancipated spectator / Paola Voci
Part III: Structure. Acting real : cinema, stage, and the modernity of performance in Chinese silent film / Jason McGrath ; Edward Yang and Taiwan's age of auteurs / James Tweedie ; A marriage of convenience : musical moments in Chinese films / Darrell William Davis ; Policing film in early 20th century China, 1905-1923 / Zhiwei Xiao ; Between will and negotiation : film policy in the first three years of People's Republic of China / Laikwan Pang ; Fetish power unbound : a small history of 'woman' in Chinese cinema / Rey Chow ; Ethnographic representation across genres : the culture trope in contemporary mainland media / Louisa Schein ; Conjuring the masses : the spectral / spectacular crowd in Chinese film / Andy Rodhekohr ; The idea of Asia(nism) and trans-Asian productions / Kwai-Cheung Lo ; Film and contemporary Chinese art : mediums and remediation / Eugene Wang ; Crossing the same river twice : documentary re-enactment and the founding of PRC documentary cinema / Ying Qian ; Remade in China : cinema with "Chinese elements" in the Dapian Age / Yiman Wang ; Along the riverrun : cinematic encounters in Tsai Ming-liang's The river / Carlos Rojas
Afterword: Chinese cinema as monkey's tail / Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow.
Part I: History. D.W. Griffith and the rise of Chinese cinema in early 1920s Shanghai / Jianhua Chen ; Ombres Chinoises : split screens and parallel lives in love and duty / Kristine Harris ; Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the polemics of screening China / David Der-wei Wang ; A national cinema for a puppet state : the Manchurian Motion Picture Association / Jie Li ; A genealogy of cinephilia in the Maoist period / Yomi Braester ; Cold War politics and Hong Kong Mandarin cinema / Poshek Fu ; Conceiving cross-border communities : mobile women in recent Hong Kong cinema / Tsung-yi Michelle Huang ; Taiwan new cinema : small nation with soft power / Song Hwee Lim ; Chinese cinema with Hollywood characteristics, or How The karate kid became a Chinese film / Michael Berry ; World as picture and ruination : on Jia Zhangke's still life as world cinema / Pheng Cheah
Part II: Form. The opera film in Chinese cinema : cultural nationalism and cinematic form / Stephen Teo ; A small history of Wenyi / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh ; Art, politics, and internationalism : Korean war films in Chinese cinema / Ban Wang ; Edification through affection : the Cultural Revolution films, 1974-1976 / Gary Xu ; Reforming vengeance : Kung Fu and the racial melancholia of Chinese masculinity / Michael Eng ; Desire and distribution : queer/Chinese/cinema / Sean Metzger ; Thirdspace between flows and places : Chinese independent documentary and social theories of space and locality / Yingjin Zhang ; From anticorruption to officialdom : the transformation of Chinese dynasty TV drama / Ying Zhu ; New media : large screens in China / Audrey Yue ; Online small screen cinema : the cinema of attractions and the emancipated spectator / Paola Voci
Part III: Structure. Acting real : cinema, stage, and the modernity of performance in Chinese silent film / Jason McGrath ; Edward Yang and Taiwan's age of auteurs / James Tweedie ; A marriage of convenience : musical moments in Chinese films / Darrell William Davis ; Policing film in early 20th century China, 1905-1923 / Zhiwei Xiao ; Between will and negotiation : film policy in the first three years of People's Republic of China / Laikwan Pang ; Fetish power unbound : a small history of 'woman' in Chinese cinema / Rey Chow ; Ethnographic representation across genres : the culture trope in contemporary mainland media / Louisa Schein ; Conjuring the masses : the spectral / spectacular crowd in Chinese film / Andy Rodhekohr ; The idea of Asia(nism) and trans-Asian productions / Kwai-Cheung Lo ; Film and contemporary Chinese art : mediums and remediation / Eugene Wang ; Crossing the same river twice : documentary re-enactment and the founding of PRC documentary cinema / Ying Qian ; Remade in China : cinema with "Chinese elements" in the Dapian Age / Yiman Wang ; Along the riverrun : cinematic encounters in Tsai Ming-liang's The river / Carlos Rojas
Afterword: Chinese cinema as monkey's tail / Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow.