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Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949
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English
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2021
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Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and complexity of Republican China’s cinematic masterworks, from the comedies and melodramas of the silent era to talkies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
Author / Editor information
Christopher Rea is professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (2015) and cotranslator of The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (Columbia, 2017).
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Michael Berry, author of A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film:
Christopher Rea's Chinese Film Classics is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of early Chinese film. Featuring clear plot overviews, a glossary of basic film terms, fascinating production details, close analysis of key scenes, and incredible detective work that traces the influence of early Hollywood and European cinema, this is the introductory textbook we have been waiting for.
Christopher Rea's Chinese Film Classics is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of early Chinese film. Featuring clear plot overviews, a glossary of basic film terms, fascinating production details, close analysis of key scenes, and incredible detective work that traces the influence of early Hollywood and European cinema, this is the introductory textbook we have been waiting for.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - PART ONE Silent Films
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CHAPTER ONE Laborer’s Love (Laogong zhi aiqing 勞工之愛情)
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CHAPTER TWO Playthings (Xiao wanyi 小玩意)
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CHAPTER THREE Sports Queen (Tiyu huanghou 體育皇后)
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CHAPTER FOUR Goddess (Shennü 神女)
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CHAPTER FIVE The Great Road (Dalu 大路)
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CHAPTER SIX New Women (Xin nüxing 新女性)
117 - PART TWO Sound Films
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CHAPTER SEVEN Song at Midnight (Yeban gesheng 夜半歌聲)
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CHAPTER EIGHT Street Angels (Malu tianshi 馬路天使)
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CHAPTER NINE Hua Mu Lan (Mulan congjun 木蘭從軍)
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CHAPTER TEN Long Live the Missus! (Taitai wansui 太太萬歲)
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CHAPTER ELEVEN Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chunshui xiang dong liu 一江春水向東流)
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CHAPTER TWELVE Spring in a Small Town (Xiaocheng zhi chun 小城之春)
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Wanderings of Three-Hairs the Orphan (Sanmao liulang ji 三毛流浪記)
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN Crows and Sparrows (Wuya yu maque 烏鴉與麻雀)
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Abbreviations
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Appendix 1: Other Significant Extant Chinese Films, 1927–1949
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Appendix 2: Selective Name List of Film Personnel
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Filmography
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Bibliography
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Index
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