Table of Contents

FOREWORD I. Northerners and Southerners 1. Early Hong Kong Cinema: The Shanghai Hangover 2. Shanghai Redone: Les Sing-Song Girls in Hong Kong 3. The Early Cantonese Cinema 4. Father and Son 5. The Romantic and the Cynical Mandarins II. Martial Artists 6. The Dao of King Hu 7. The Sword and the Fist 8. Bruce Lee: Narcissus and the Little Dragon 9. Jacky Chan: The Other Kung Fu Dragon III. Path Breakers 10. The New Wave 11. The New Wave's Action Auteurs 12. The Second Wave IV. Characters on the Edge 13. Reverence and Fear: Hong Kong's China Syndrome 14. Ghosts, Cadavers, Demons and Other Hybrids 15. Bad Customers and Big Timers 16. Postmodernism and the End of Hong Kong Cinema BIO-FILMOGRAPHIES INDEX

About the Author

Stephen Teo is a film-maker, critic and film historian currently living in Melbourne, Australia.