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Introduction

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Sources
Introduction

Sources

This is a bibliography of the books and websites on Chinese Cinema which I’ve collected over the years. Some of them I've read more completely than others, but all should provide useful information. I've marked with an asterisk the titles and sites I've
28 Jan 2023 3 min read
A New Home
Introduction

A New Home

Welcome to the new home for The Chinese Cinema. This is a project that began life almost ten years ago, when I was so smitten with Sammo Hung that I started a deep dive into Hong Kong cinema called the "Summer of Sammo." That fall it morphed into
12 Feb 2022 1 min read
Why “The Chinese Cinema”?
Introduction

Why “The Chinese Cinema”?

The question of why I named this project “The Chinese Cinema” and not something else has come up more than once since I adopted the name in 2017. The objection is that it flattens out the very real cultural, cinematic and political distinctions between the People’s Republic of China,
20 Jul 2020 7 min read
The Chinese Cinema
Introduction

The Chinese Cinema

Four years ago, in the spring of 2013, I caught a particularly vicious strain of cinephilia. I’d been a guest on the They Shot Pictures podcast a couple of times, talking about Josef von Sternberg, Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse, and we decided to sneak in an episode on
07 Mar 2017 3 min read
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