Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hot air and high hopes in world cinema -- Storms over Asia : Mongolia, montage aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke's The world -- Bicycle thieves and pickpockets : Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam's After this our exile -- Brecht in Hong Kong cinema : Ann Hui's Ordinary heroes and Evans Chan's The life and times of Wu Zhongxian -- Les maoïstes, les chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud : China, France, and the sexual politics of the cultural revolution -- Dragons in diaspora : the politics of race in Bruce Lee's Way of the dragon and Louis Leterrier's Danny the dog -- Citing the American dream in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : Clara Law's Like a dream and Red earth -- Conclusion : cinematic citations and the circulation of Chinese-language motion pictures.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hot air and high hopes in world cinema -- Storms over Asia : Mongolia, montage aesthetics, and Jia Zhangke's The world -- Bicycle thieves and pickpockets : Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu and Patrick Tam's After this our exile -- Brecht in Hong Kong cinema : Ann Hui's Ordinary heroes and Evans Chan's The life and times of Wu Zhongxian -- Les maoïstes, les chinoises, and Jean-Pierre Léaud : China, France, and the sexual politics of the cultural revolution -- Dragons in diaspora : the politics of race in Bruce Lee's Way of the dragon and Louis Leterrier's Unleashed -- Citing the American dream in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : Clara Law's Like a dream and Red earth -- Conclusion : cinematic citations and the circulation of Chinese-language motion pictures.…”