Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: National Cinema and Hong Kong Cinema1. Hong Kong Cinema as Part of Chinese national Cinema 1913-19562. Hong Kong Cinema as Chinese Diasporic Cinema 1956-19793. Hong Kong Film Production, Market and Critisism 1979-19974. Hong Kong Films: The Cultural Specificity of Quasi-National Film5. Hong Kong Films: Constructions of Hong Kong History and Territory6. Hong Kong Films: Constructions of Quasi-National Identity7. Hong Kong Cinema after 1997Conclusion: Hong Kong Cinema and Quasi-National Cinema Notes Glossary Bibliography

About the Author

Yingchi Chu is a lecturer in Chinese and Film Studies at the School of Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia

Reviews

'This well researched book, its exhaustive bibliography and a handy and useful glossary and filmography (in Chinese and English) - is an important tool allowing readers to grasp how, in the very particular and exceptional case of Hong Kong, its cinema both embodies and transcends our received idea of what constitutes a national cinematic art.' - Cinemaya
'Hong Kong Cinema is an ambitious, thought-provoking book and contains some fascinating material on the film industry in 1980-2000.' - China Quarterly