Chinese film stars
By: edited by Mary Farquhar and Yingjin Zhang.
Contributors: Farquhar, Mary Ann, 1949-; Zhang, Yingjin.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415573900; 9780203854853
Subjects: Motion picture actors and actresses -- China; Motion picture actors and actresses -- Taiwan; Motion picture actors and actresses -- China -- Hong Kong; Motion pictures -- China; Motion pictures -- Taiwan; Motion pictures -- China -- Hong Kong
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Yingjin Zhang and Mary Farquhar; title: Early cinema : crossing race and class divides. Anna May Wong : a border-crossing "minor" star mediating performance / Yiman Wang; title: Ruan Lingyu : reflections on an individual performance style / Mette Hjort; title: Li Lili : acting a lively jianmei type / Sean Macdonald; title: Socialist cinema : from film star to model worker. Mei Lanfang : facial signature and political performance in opera film / John Zou; title: Zhao Dan : spectrality of martyrdom and stardom / Yingjin Zhang; title: Zhang Ruifang : modelling the Socialist Red star / Xiaoning Lu; title: Zhong Xinghuo : Communist film worker / Krista Van Fleit Hang; title: Taiwan cinema : diaspora, transvestism, non-professionalism. Ling Bo : orphanhood and post-war Sinophone film history / Zhang Zhen; title: Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia : last eastern star of the late twentieth century / Tony Williams; title: Lee Kang-Sheng : non-professional star / Michael Lawrence; title: Hong Kong and transnational cinema : action, gender, emotion. "Bruce Lee" after Bruce Lee : a life in conjectures / Brian Hu; title: Jackie Chan : star work as pain and triumph / Mary Farquhar; title: Chow Yun-Fat : Hong Kong's modern tv / Xiaosheng Lin Feng; title: Leslie Cheung : star as autosexual /  Julian Stringer; title: Jet Li : star construction and fan discourse on the internet  / Sabrina Qiong Yu.