Christopher Rea

Building a New China in Cinema (2002), by Laikwan Pang

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China’s left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist.

Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai (1999), edited by Yingjin Zhang

This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long neglected by Western scholars.

Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (1998), edited by Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao

Encyclopedia of Chinese Film edited by Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao Routledge 504 pages, 1998 (new edition 2014) ISBN: 9780415757027 Publisher website: https://www.routledge.com/Encyclopedia-of-Chinese-Film/Xiao-Zhang-Zhang/p/book/9780415757027 Publisher’s description: The Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, one of the first ever encyclopedias in this area, provides alphabetically organized entries on directors, genres, themes, and actors and actresses from mainland China, Hong […]

Transnational Chinese Cinemas 1997 edited by Sheldon Lu

Transnational Chinese Cinemas (1997), edited by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu

Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation.

Dianying (1972), by Jay Leyda

Because he worked with the Chinese film industry in Peking from 1959 to 1964, the author has had access to more Chinese films and relevant documents than any other Western scholar. In Dianying he describes both historic and current film production, using the films themselves as primary source material.