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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: National cinema and China | |
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| Cinema and national traditions, 1896-1929 | |
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| Introduction: early cinema | |
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| Cinema as attractions, 1896-1921 | |
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| Cinema as narration, 1922-6 | |
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| Cinema and speculations, 1927-9 | |
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| Critical issues: arts, artists and artistic theory | |
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| Conclusion: a growing sense of nationalism | |
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| Cinema and the nation-people, 1930-49 | |
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| Introduction: a 'golden age' period | |
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| Prewar cinema, 1930-7 | |
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| Wartime cinema, 1937-45 | |
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| Postwar cinema, 1946-9 | |
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| Critical issues: cinema and modernity | |
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| Conclusion: in the name of the nation-people | |
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| Cinematic reinvention of the national in Taiwan, 1896-1978 | |
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| Introduction: a maturing industry | |
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| Difficult postwar transition, 1945-54 | |
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| Two competing cinemas, 1955-69 | |
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| Political and industrial restructuring, 1970-8 | |
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| Conclusion: cinematic reinvention of the national | |
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| Cinematic revival of the regional in Hong Kong, 1945-78 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From Shanghai to Hong Kong, 1945-55 | |
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| Competing studios, 1956-65 | |
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| Reinventing genres, 1966-78 | |
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| Conclusion: toward regional imagination | |
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| Cinema and the nation-state in the PRC, 1949-78 | |
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| Introduction: socialist cinema of the PRC | |
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| The nationalization of cinema, 1949-52 | |
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| Toward socialist realism, 1953-65 | |
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| The Cultural Revolution and beyond, 1966-78 | |
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| Conclusion: ideology and subjectivity | |
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| Cinema and national/regional cultures, 1979-89 | |
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| Introduction: new waves in three Chinas | |
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| The PRC: humanism, the avant-garde and commercialism | |
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| New Taiwan Cinema: re-imaging the national | |
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| The Hong Kong new waves: genre, history, identity | |
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| Conclusion: history, culture and nationhood | |
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| Cinema and the transnational imaginary, 1990-2002 | |
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| Introduction: transnational Chinese cinemas | |
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| Hong Kong: of the global and the local | |
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| Taiwan: art cinema beyond borders | |
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| The PRC: post-socialist cinema | |
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| Conclusion: art, capital and politics in the age of the WTO | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Subject index | |
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| Name index | |
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| Film index | |