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Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rare

films, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and their complex interconnections. The years 1935-50 were a period of ceaseless violence in China, of war, occupation, civil war, and colonialism, leading to mass displacements of millions of people and extreme poverty. Both the cinema and the broader popular culture of this period have been little studied, partly because access to research materials is so difficult, partly because of the political problems involved (most films produced during the war have been considered pro-Japanese and their makers traitors). This study brings to light the humanity of the filmmakers, writers, and business people; the many facets of the historical situation in which they worked; and the complex politics of the films they made.

This is also an original and important study of the regional networks, diasporic connections, and border-crossing movement of goods, capital, and people that drew Hong Kong and Shanghai together in an intercity nexus that sustained the survival and even flourishing of popular cinema during this tumultuous period.

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Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rare
films, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and their complex interconnections. The years 1935-50 were a period of ceaseless violence in China, of war, occupation, civil war, and colonialism, leading to mass displacements of millions of people and extreme poverty. Both the cinema and the broader popular culture of this period have been little studied, partly because access to research materials is so difficult, partly because of the political problems involved (most films produced during the war have been considered pro-Japanese and their makers traitors). This study brings to light the humanity of the filmmakers, writers, and business people; the many facets of the historical situation in which they worked; and the complex politics of the films they made.
This is also an original and important study of the regional networks, diasporic connections, and border-crossing movement of goods, capital, and people that drew Hong Kong and Shanghai together in an intercity nexus that sustained the survival and even flourishing of popular cinema during this tumultuous period.

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Title Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas
Author Poshek Fu
Binding Hardcover
Edition First Edition
Pages 224
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca
Date 2003-10-13
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
ISBN 9780804745178 / 080474517X
Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 9.42 x 6.24 x 0.72 in (23.93 x 15.85 x 1.83 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - China - Shanghai - History, Motion pictures - China - Hong Kong - History
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003009921
Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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Choice, 04/01/2004, Page 1477

About the author

Poshek Fu is Associate Professor of History and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945 (Stanford, 1993) and co-editor of The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (2000).

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