China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (Pop Culture and Politics Asia PA)
"This instructive book will be a pleasure for seasoned scholars and amateurs of Hong King cinema alike. Extremely useful for Asian cinema courses, this first book-length study of the Shaw Brothers--who were pioneers in the Chinese language and trans-Asian commercial film industry--provides valuable cultural history and global context." --Tonglin Lu, author ofConfronting Modernity in the Cinemas in Taiwan and Mainland China"An impressive, in-depth inquiry into the historical mutations, cultural innovations, and political implications of the rise and development of the Shaw Brothers’ movie empire. Of the many volumes on Hong Kong movie industries, this is the first to focus solely on the history of the Shaw Brothers." --David Der-wei Wang, author ofThe Monster That Is History:History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China