Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 304
Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-0-7425-0945-0 • Hardback • May 2002 • $145.00 • (£112.00)
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Laikwan Pang is lecturer at the General Education Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 The History
Chapter 3 The Merging of Histories
Chapter 4 The Left-wing Cinema Movement
Part 5 The Filmmakers and the Formation of a Collective Subjectivity
Chapter 6 The Role of Authorship in the Age of Nationalism
Chapter 7 Masculinity and Collectivism: Romancing Politics
Chapter 8 Women's Stories On-screen versus Off-screen
Part 9 The Spectators and The Film Culture
Chapter 10 A Commercial Cinema or a Political Cinema?
Chapter 11 A Shanghai Cinema or a Chinese Cinema?
Chapter 12 Engaging Realism
Part 13 Epilogue
Chapter 14 Appendix I: Chinese Left-wing Movies of the 1930s
Chapter 15 Appendix II: Popular Chinese Movies, 1932-1937
Chapter 16 Bibliography and Filmography
Pang provides invaluable information for both Asian film scholars and those interested in modern Chinese history. Highly recommended.
— Choice Reviews
This book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on pre-1949 Chinese film. The book is well-researched and informative.
— Zhiwei Xiao; China Quarterly
As the first concentrated study of Shanghai leftist cinema in English, this book is of great interest to scholars and students of Chinese cinema, Republican cultural history, and leftist cinema in general.
— Journal of Asian Studies
Pang writes in a careful and nuanced way . . . beneath her modest tone lies originality that significantly redraws our picture of this important film movement.
— Chris Berry, Kings College London; Screen
This author should be applauded for solid archival work and for bringing forth this well-researched, illustrated, and documented volume.
— Yiman Wang, Haverford College
A stimulating and engaging book with many valuable historical insights. There is no other book that I have seen that engages in such depth with this period of film-making in China.
— Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Professor of Film, Lincoln University and Honorary Professor, UNSW
[Pang's] informative readings of a variety of progressive films and her analysis of the history surrounding the founding of this movement certainly deserve our attention.
— Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews