Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chinese Cinemas (1896 -1996 )and Transnational Film Studies -- Anti-Imperialism and Film Censorship During the Nanjing Decade,1927 -1937 -- Two Stage Sisters The Blossoming of a Revolutionary Aesthetic -- From "Minority Film " to "Minority Discourse " Questions of Nationhood and Ethnicity in Chinese Cinema -- National Cinema,Cultural Critique,Transnational Capital The Films of Zhang Yimou -- Constructing a Nation Taiwanese History and the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien -- The Diaspora in Postmodern Taiwan and Hong Kong Film Framing Stan Lai 's The Peach Blossom Land with Allen Fong 's Ah Ying -- Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee -- Transnational Action John Woo, Hong Kong, Hollywood -- Jackie Chan and the Cultural Dynamics of Global Entertainment -- Reading Formations and Chen Kaige 's Farewell My Concubine -- The New Woman Incident Cinema,Scandal,and Spectacle in 1935 Shanghai -- Gendered Perspective The Construction and Representation of Subjectivity and Sexuality in Ju Dou -- the Figure of History Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine -- Narrative Images of the Historical Passion Those Other Women -On the Alterity in the New Wave of Chinese Cinema -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.