4 Founding an Army with Soft Power: Captain Andrew Lau

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. A Note on Romanisation, Translation and Box Office Records viii
5. Introduction: Main(land) Melody Films and Hong Kong Directors 1
6. 1 How to Take Tiger Mountain? The Tsui Hark Model 29
7. 2 Will Our Time Come? Ann Hui’s Fallen City 54
8. 3 Hong Kong Dreams in Mainland China: The Leap of Peter Chan 80
9. 4 Founding an Army with Soft Power: Captain Andrew Lau 111
10. 5 Stepping to the Fore: Dante Lam’s Operation Trilogy 137
11. 6 Underneath the Shock Waves: The (Un)told Stories of Herman Yau 163
12. 7 Jumping on the Bandwagon: The Ensemble of Hong Kong Film Directors 189
13. Epilogue 213
14. Select Bibliography 236
15. Filmography 248
16. Glossary 259
17. Index 267