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  • Chinese Film

    Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age

    by Jason McGrath ...
    A tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinemaThe history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the tumultuous history of China itself. Be it the silent, the Communist, or the contemporary, each Chinese cinematic era has necessitated its own form in conversation with broader trends in politics and culture.In Chinese Film, Jason McGrath tells this fascinating ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Urban Generation

    Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the “Urban Generation” rubric is their ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Farewell My Concubine

    A Queer Film Classic

    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Helen Hok-Sze Leung: Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008). ... Read more

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  • Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time

    Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study.This book presents the nature and significance of Ashes of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

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  • The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement

    The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee

    Lust/Caution

    Series series Academia Sinica on East Asia
    In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang, China’s most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought unexpectedly harsh criticism from China, where Ang Lee was labelled a traitor in scathing internet critiques, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Eileen Chang

    Eileen Chang (19201995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the most popular writers in 1940s Shanghai, but her insistence on writing about individual human relationships and mundane matters rather than revolutionary and political movements meant that in mainland China, she was neglected until very recently. Outside the mainland, her life and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular, authoritarian culture into a democratic and cosmopolitan society. The transition has fueled anxiety ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • China on Screen

    Cinema and Nation

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Cinema Taiwan

    Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts

    Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auterist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema.Cinema ... Read more

    $79.99 USD