Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: Hot Air and High Hopes in World Cinema 1
5. 2. Storms over Asia: Mongolia, Montage Aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke’s The World 26
6. 3. Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets: Jia Zhangke’s Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam’s After This Our Exile 52
7. 4. Brecht in Hong Kong Cinema: Ann Hui’s Ordinary Heroes and Evans Chan’s The Life and Times of Wu Zhongxian 76
8. 5. Les Maoïstes, les Chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud: China, France, and the Sexual Politics of the Cultural Revolution 108
9. 6. Dragons in Diaspora: The Politics of Race in Bruce Lee’s Way of the Dragon and Louis Leterrier’s Unleashed 138
10. 7. Citing the American Dream in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Clara Law’s Like a Dream and Red Earth 151
11. Conclusion: Cinematic Citations and the Circulation of Chinese- Language Motion Pictures 180
12. Notes 189
13. Filmography 207
14. Bibliography 213
15. Index 225