3. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon as a Sino-French Makeover

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction to Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas 1
5. PART ONE. Franco-Taiwanese Cinema 29
6. 1. The Sino-French as Métissage 29
7. 2. Intertextuality as Métissage in Tsai Ming-liang’s Sino-French Films 72
8. 3. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon as a Sino-French Makeover 109
9. PART TWO. Franco-Chinese Cinema
10. 4. Translations of Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 137
11. 5. Imitating Frenchness in Emily Tang Xiaobai’s Conjugation and Jia Zhangke’s The World 160
12. Conclusions Mixing It Up 188
13. Notes 203
14. Filmography 237
15. Bibliography 241
16. Index 259
17. About the Author 273