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Chinese Film Studies

dhfddaksj lkjdsahflaksd hf The Chinese-language cinema has three distinct historical threads: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. Since 1949 the cinema of mainland China has operated under restrictions imposed by the Communist Party of China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television and Central Propaganda Department. Many films with political overtones made in China are still censored or banned in China itself; however, some of these films are distributed abroad commercially or at film festivals. China also restricts the showing of foreign-made films in Chinese cinemas to 20 each year. Currently, the vast majority of the Mainland-produced movies uses Mandarin. Mainland films are often dubbed into Cantonese when exported to Hong Kong for theatrical runs.See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_China

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Encyclopaedia
Zhang, Yingjin Xiao Zhiwei(1998).Encyclopedia of Chinese film. . London : New York

Bibliography
Cheng, Jim(2004).An annotated bibliography for Chinese film studies = Zhongguo dian ying yan jiu shu mu ti yao. . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press

Summary and review

Book review
Yiman, Wang(2003).Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937. The Journal of Asian Studies, 62(4, 1226.
Gina, Marchetti(2003).China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema. The Journal of Asian Studies, 62(4, 1232.

Government materials

Agency
国家广播电影电视总局 The State Administration of Radio Film and Television
. http://www.sarft.gov.cn/

Law materials

Laws and Regulations
国家广播电影电视总局中外合作摄制电影片管理规定.
国家广播电影电视总局,&中华人民共和国商务部《电影企业经营资格准入暂行规定》的补充规定.
国家广播电影电视总局电影片进出境洗印、后期制作审批管理办法.
国家广播电影电视总局成立电影院线报批程序.
广播电影电视部电影审查规定.
国家广播电影电视总局电影剧本（梗概）备案、电影片管理规定.
国家广播电影电视总局电影企业经营资格准入暂行规定.
中华人民共和国国务院电影管理条例(2001). 中华人民共和国国务院令2001.16, 37
国家广播电影电视总局广电总局关于印发《广播影视知识产权战略实施意见》的通知.
国务院批准,&文化部、海关总署发布进口影片管理办法.
国家广播电影电视总局关于废止部分广播影视部门规章和规范性文件的决定.
国家广播电影电视总局(2010.7.12).电影艺术档案管理规定.

Primary sources

Archive and record
上海年华-中国现代电影期刊全目书志.
上海年华-中国电影明星录.
吴迪. Wu, Di(2006).中国电影研究资料 : 1949-1979 /Zhongguo dian ying yan jiu zi liao : 1949-1979. . 北京 : 文化藝術出版社, 2006. : 第1版.Beijing : Wen hua yi shu chu ban she

Biography and Memoir
倪震, Ni Zhen(2002).北京电影学院故事 : 第五代电影前史 /Beijing dian ying xue yuan gu shi : di wu dai dian ying qian shi. . 北京 : 作家出版社, 2002. : 第1版.Beijing : Zuo jia chu ban she
Ni, Zhen(2002).Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: the genesis of China's fifth generation. Duke University PressAsia-Pacific;

Yearbook
中国电影年鉴 /Zhongguo dian ying nian jian. . 北京 : 中国电影出版社, 1982-; Beijing : Zhongguo dian ying chu ban she

Magazine & newspaper
大众電影.Da zhong dian ying. . 北京 : 《大众电影》杂志社,; Beijing : Da zhong dian ying za zhi she

Selected resources

Monograph and book
Farquhar, Mary Ann(2006).China on screen : cinema and nation. . New York : Columbia University PressFilm and culture series; Variation: Film and culture series.; Film and culture., 313 s..
Xu, Gary G.(2007).Sinascape : contemporary Chinese cinema. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Chow, Rey(1995).Primitive passions : visuality, sexuality, ethnography, and contemporary Chinese cinema. . New York : Columbia University PressFilm and culture;, xiv, 252 p..
Cornelius, Sheila Smith Ian Haydn(2002).New Chinese cinema : challenging representations. . London : New YorkShort cuts series(11, 133 p..
Wang, Shujen(2003).Framing piracy : globalization and film distribution in greater China. Rowman & Littlefield
Lu, Hsiao-peng(2001).China, transnational visuality, global postmodernity. Stanford University Press
Pang, Laikwan(2002).Building a new China in cinema : the Chinese left-wing cinema movement, 1932-1937. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Leyda, Jay(1972).Dianying; an account of films and the film audience in China. . Cambridge : Mass., MIT Press
Zhang, Yingjin(2004).Chinese national cinema. RoutledgeNational cinemas; Variation: National cinemas series.
Marchetti, Gina(2006).From Tian'anmen to Times Square : transnational China and the Chinese diaspora on global screens, 1989-1997. . Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Silbergeld, Jerome(1999).China into film : frames of reference in contemporary Chinese cinema. . London : Reaktion BooksEnvisioning Asia;, 351 p..
Dissanayake, Wimal(1988).Cinema and cultural identity : reflections on films from Japan, India, and China. . Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Hayward, Susan(2000).Cinema studies : the key concepts. . London : New YorkRoutledge key guides;, xx, 528 p..
Zhu, Ying(2003).Chinese cinema during the era of reform : the ingenuity of the system. . Westport, Conn. : Praeger
Lu, Sheldon H.(1997).Transnational Chinese cinemas : identity, nationhood, gender. . Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Press
Zhang, Xudong(1997).Chinese modernism in the era of reforms : cultural fever, avant-garde fiction, and the new Chinese cinema. . Durham, NC : Duke University PressPost-contemporary interventions;, xiv, 431 p..
Semsel, George Stephen Chen Xihe Xia Hong(1993).Film in contemporary China : critical debates, 1979-1989. . Westport, Conn. : Praeger
Clark, Paul(2005).Reinventing China : a generation and its films. Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, c2005.China : a generation and its films
Lim, Song Hwee(2006).Celluloid comrades : representations of male homosexuality in contemporary Chinese cinemas. University of Hawai'i Press
Donald, Stephanie(2000).Public secrets, public spaces : cinema and civility in China. . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield
Chow, Rey(2007).Sentimental fabulations, contemporary Chinese films : attachment in the age of global visibility. Columbia University PressFilm and culture series; Variation: Film and culture.
Curtin, Michael(2007).Playing to the world's biggest audience : the globalization of Chinese film and TV. Berkeley : University of California Press
Cui, Shuqin(2003).Women through the lens : gender and nation in a century of Chinese cinema. University of Hawai`i Press
Barlow, Tani E.(2002).Cinema and desire : feminist Marxism and cultural politics in the work of Dai Jinhua. . London : New York
Clark, Paul(1987).Chinese cinema : culture and politics since 1949. Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Journal article
Chu, Katherine Kit Ling(2010).Co-Opting the Wolves: National Film Industry Reform in China After 1978. Asian Politics & Policy, 2(1, 95-121.
Clark, P.(1987).ETHNIC-MINORITIES IN CHINESE FILMS - CINEMA AND THE EXOTIC. East-West Film Journal, 1(2, 15-31.
Zhu, Y.(2002).Chinese cinema's economic reform from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Journal of Communication, 52(4, 905-921.
Chen, Y. R.(2000).Film and social change: The Chinese cinema in the reform era. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 28(1, 36-45.
Yau, E. C. M.(1993).INTERNATIONAL FANTASY AND THE NEW CHINESE CINEMA. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 14(3, 95-107.

Theses and dissertation
Shen, Vivian(1999).The origins of left-wing cinema in China, 1932-1937. . United States -- California : University of California, Los Angeles
Chen Yu, Lin(2003).La representacion de la realidad en la obra de Joris Ivens en China: "Como Yukong movio las montanas". . Spain : Universidad de Navarra (Spain)
Magnan-Park, Aaron Han Joon(2002).Cinescapes of the "yet-to-be-fully-national": Hong Kong action cinema's transnational engagement. . United States -- Iowa : The University of Iowa
Ma, Jean Yen-Chun(2003).Time without measure, sadness without cure: Hou Hsiao-hsien's films of history. . United States -- Illinois : The University of Chicago
Sheng, Horng-Huey Heidi(1998).A Chinese cultural inquiry of Zhang Yimou's films. . United States -- California : California State University, Fresno
Stephenson, Shelley(2000).The occupied screen: Star, fan, and nation in Shanghai cinema, 1937--1945. . United States -- Illinois : The University of Chicago
Braester, Yomi(1997).Writing terror: Crises of historical testimony in twentieth-century Chinese literature and film. . United States -- Connecticut : Yale University
Berry, Christopher Allen(1999).Towards a postsocialist cinema: The representation of the Cultural Revolution in films from the People's Republic of China, 1976-1981. . United States -- California : University of California, Los Angeles
Wei, Shiyu Louisa(2002).The Fifth Generation and beyond: Reflections on contemporary Chinese film culture. . Canada : University of Alberta (Canada)
Voci, Paola(2002).Visual dissent in twentieth-century China: A study of the exhibitionist mode of representation in cinema, literature, and media. . United States -- Indiana : Indiana University
Lai, Chiu-han Linda(2006).Producing heterotopia: Traces of the cinema in the thick space of governmentality, localism and citizenship in 1934 Hong Kong. . United States -- New York : New York University
Hong, Guo-Juin(2004).Cinematograph of history: Post/colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai and new Taiwanese cinema since 1982. . United States -- California : University of California, Berkeley
Szeto, Kin-Yan(2005).The cosmopolitical martial arts cinema of Asia and America: Gender, ethnicity and transnationalism. . United States -- Illinois : Northwestern University
Sze, S.(2004).Remapping Taipei: Globalization and Edward Yang's films. . Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Qin, L.(2007).Trans-media strategies of appropriation, narrativization, and visualization: Adaptations of literature in a century of Chinese cinema. . United States -- California : University of California, San Diego
Pun, M.(2003).Remembering the Cultural Revolution: A study of Chinese cinema since 1978. . Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Udden, James Nathan(2003).Hou Hsiao-hsien and the aesthetics of historical experience. . United States -- Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Vukovich, Daniel Frederick(2005).Sinological-orientalism: The production of the West's post-Mao China. . United States -- Illinois : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hess, N.(2006).Imagining independence: The thematic concerns and circulation of independent film from Hong Kong and China. . Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Chu, Lui(2006).Out of the Cold-War west: A sociological view on the emergence of a Chinese art cinema in the mid-1980s. . United States -- New York : Columbia University
Wang, Ting(2006).Global Hollywood and China's filmed entertainment industry. . United States -- Illinois : Northwestern University
Yip, June Chun(1996).Colonialism and its counter-discourses: On the uses of "nation" in modern Taiwanese literature and film. . United States -- New Jersey : Princeton University
Chang, Li-Mei(2000).Postcolonial blues: Hong Kong cinema and cultural identity. . United States -- Michigan : Wayne State University
Lau, Kwok Wah(1989).A cultural interpretation of the popular cinema of China and Hong Kong, 1981-1985. . United States -- Illinois : Northwestern University
Huang, Yueh Li(1993).The rise and fall of the New Chinese Cinema during the Chinese reformation in the 1980s. . United States -- California : California State University, Fresno
Hoare, Stephanie Alison(1989).Melodrama and innovation: Literary adaptation in contemporary Chinese film. . United States -- New York : Cornell University
Zhang, Li-hui(1995).Xie Jin: A microcosm of Socialist China before 1980. . United States -- California : University of Southern California
Shen, Shiao-Ying(1995).Permutations of the foreign/er: A study of the works of Edward Yang, Stan Lai, Chang Yi, and Hou Hsiao-Hsein. . United States -- New York : Cornell University
Yau, Ching-Mei Esther(1990).Filmic discourse on women in Chinese cinema (1949-1965): Art, ideology and social relations. . United States -- California : University of California, Los Angeles
Yue, Audrey Ing-Sun(1999).Pre-post-1997 postcolonial Hong Kong cinema 1984-1997. Thesis (doctoral)--La Trobe Univesity, 1999. 1999.
Lam, Yung Adam(2000).Identity, tradition and globalism in post-Cultural Revolution Chinese feature films. Thesis (PhD--Chinese Studies)--University of Auckland, 2000. 2000.
Zhou, Xuelin(2002).To screen new heroes : a study of Chinese "youth problem" films. Thesis (PhD--Film, Television and Media Studies)--University of Auckland, 2002. 2002.
Wong, Tania(1995).Transgressing boundaries : Chinese film and architecture. Thesis (BArch)--University of Auckland, 1995. 1995.
Yu, Gwo-chauo(1993).China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: The convergence and interaction of Chinese film. . United States -- Texas : University of North Texas
Yeh, Yueh-yu(1995).A national score: Popular music and Taiwanese cinema. . United States -- California : University of Southern California
Harris, Kristine Marie(1997).Silent speech: Envisioning the nation in early Shanghai cinema. . United States -- New York : Columbia University
Ge, Congmin(2002).Ideas of cinema in China, 1913--1937: Three Chinese filmmakers. . England : University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
Chi, Robert Yee-sin(2001).Picture perfect: Narrating public memory in twentieth-century China. . United States -- Massachusetts : Harvard University
Zhang, Zhen(1998)."An amorous history of the silver screen": Film culture, urban modernity, and the vernacular experience in China, 1896-1937. . United States -- Illinois : The University of Chicago
Lee, Chu-Chun(1995).A modernist auteur, Edward Yang: The first decade of his film career (1982-1991). . United States -- California : University of Southern California
Long, Megan(2002).The adventure of cinema: The films of Mt. Everest from 1922 to 1996. . Canada : York University (Canada)
Pang, Lai Kwan(1997).China's Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937: History, aesthetics, and ideology. . United States -- Missouri : Washington University
Mao, J.(2002).New sensations in Shanghai literature and cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
Lu, Heying(1996).Cross-cultural analysis using power relation, differance, and icons: A study of Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou's films of the early 1990s. . United States -- Utah : Brigham Young University
Palmer, Augusta L.(2004).Crossroads: Nostalgia and the documentary impulse in contemporary Chinese cinemas. . United States -- New York : New York University
McGrath, Jason(2004).Culture and the market in contemporary China: Cinema, literature, and criticism of the 1990s. . United States -- Illinois : The University of Chicago
Liu, J.(2008).Signifying the local: Media productions rendered in local languages in Mainland China since 2000. . United States -- New York : Cornell University
Wang, Z.(2009).Revolutionizing the silver screen a user-centered discursive study of early PRC cinema: 1949-59. . United States -- Washington : University of Washington
Li, Y.(2008).In/from the art of Wenda Gu and Trinh T. Minh-ha, toward a transnational model of art education. . United States -- Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University
Wang, Q.(2008).Writing against oblivion: Personal filmmaking from the Forsaken Generation in post-socialist China. . United States -- California : University of California, Los Angeles
Weng, D.(2009)."Mosuo Song Journey": A cross-cultural documentary fieldwork experience in Yunnan, China. . United States -- New York : State University of New York at Buffalo
Blumenfield Kedar, T.(2010).Scenes from Yongning: Media creation in China's Na villages. . United States -- Washington : University of Washington
Bong, I.(2010).Destabilizing racial harmony: Hybridity, nationality, and spatiality in the law and cultural production of Manchukuo. . United States -- New York : Cornell University
Wicks, J.(2010).The antecedents of Taiwan New Cinema: The state of Taiwan film in the 1960s and 1970s. . United States -- California : University of California, San Diego
Ma, K.(2010).Elitism, populism, Chinese culture, and transnational industries: A cultural-genre study of Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou's film narratives. . United States -- Virginia : Regent University
Lu, X.(2008).Biopolitics and cinema: Practices, representations, and the moulding of the socialist subject in China, 1949--1966. . United States -- New York : State University of New York at Stony Brook
Li, J.(2010).The past is not like smoke: A memory museum of the Maoist era (1949--1976). . United States -- Massachusetts : Harvard University
Tseng, L.(2008).Pictures in motion: The cinematic art of Zheng Zhengqiu and his Shanghai contemporaries, 1910--1935. . United States -- Illinois : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tang, L.(2008).Nonsensical speech: Speech acts in postsocialist Chinese culture. . United States -- Washington : University of Washington
Ginoza, N.(2007).Dissonance to affinity: An ideological analysis of Japanese cinema in the 1930s. . United States -- California : University of California, Los Angeles
Sweeny, M.(2008).Stars: The configuration and trajectory of women in Chinese cinema during the first half of the twentieth century. . Canada : McGill University (Canada)
Funnell, L.(2010).The warrior women of transnational cinema gender and race in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films. . Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
Johnson, M.(2008).International and wartime origins of the propaganda state: The motion picture in China, 1897--1955. . United States -- California : University of California, San Diego
Tiburzi, B.(2007).The fifth generation: Chinese cinema's "great leap forward". . United States -- Missouri : University of Missouri - Saint Louis
Law, Y.(2007).On time and festivity: A study of Chinese New Year films. . Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Tse, H. Tommy(2007).Narcissism in male sexuality: "Lan Yu", "Crystal Boys" and "Brokeback Mountain". . Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Lau, K.(2008).Myth of Dreams. . Canada : University of Windsor (Canada)
Marcantonio, C.(2007).Geo-emotive landscapes: The global cinema of Pedro Almodovar and Wong Kar-Wai. . United States -- New York : New York University
Xie, W.(2010).Female cross-dressing in Chinese opera & cinema. . United States -- Connecticut : Yale University
Fan, H.(2010).Football meets opium a topological study of political violence, sovereignty, and cinema archaeology between "England" and "China". . United States -- Connecticut : Yale University
Shin, M.(2008).Yellow Hollywood: Asian martial arts in U.S. global cinema. . United States -- California : University of Southern California
Dong, X.(2009).China at play: Republican film comedies and Chinese cinematic modernity. . United States -- Massachusetts : Harvard University
Zhou, W.(2009).Reading cinematic texts in East and West: A space of repression and resistance. . United States -- South Carolina : University of South Carolina
Bao, Y.(2008).In search of laughter in Maoist China: Chinese comedy film, 1949--1966. . United States -- Ohio : The Ohio State University
Wang, Yiman(2003).Moving the image between Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood from the 1920s to 1990s: Reformulating film remaking and national cinema. . United States -- North Carolina : Duke University
Zhang, Rui(2005).Feng Xiaogang and Chinese cinema after 1989. . United States -- Ohio : The Ohio State University
Zha, Yu(2004).The mythology of "Hero": A study of Chinese national cinema. . Canada : McGill University (Canada)
Xie, Yanqing(2002).Cinema as history? Three films about China: The Good Earth, The Sand Pebbles, and The Last Emperor. . United States -- New York : State University of New York at Albany
Wu, Chia-chi(2004).Chinese language cinemas in transnational flux. . United States -- California : University of Southern California
Nie, J.(2009).Beijing in the shadow of globalization: Production of spatial poetics in contemporary Chinese cinema, literature, and drama. . United States -- California : University of California, Davis
Ding, Y.(2009).Hong Kong's cultural identity reflected in Jackie Chan's films. . United States -- Kentucky : University of Louisville
Chiang, C.(2010).Theorizing ambivalence in Ang Lee's transnational cinema: The discourse of Chinese identity between the local and the global. . United States -- Colorado : University of Denver
Yang, W.(2009).Myth, spectacle, memory: Envisioning history in contemporary Hong Kong literature and film. . United States -- Connecticut : Yale University
Martin, S.(2009).Fantasy at work: The culture of production in the Hollywood and Hong Kong media industries. . United States -- California : University of California, Irvine
Chang, K.(2008).Disrupting boundaries of desire: Gender, sexuality, and globalization in Tsai Ming-liang's cinema of the oppressed. . United States -- Texas : The University of Texas at Austin
Moreira Macedo de Carvalho, L.(2009).The ambivalent identity of Wong Kar-wai's cinema. . Canada : Universite de Montreal (Canada)
Yu, H.(2008).The politics of images: Chinese cinema in the context of globalization. . United States -- Oregon : University of Oregon
Zhang, Q.(2009).From Hollywood to Shanghai: American silent films in China. . United States -- Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh
Nagayama, C.(2009).Fantasy of empire: Ri Koran, subject positioning and the cinematic construction of space. . Canada : University of Toronto (Canada)
Choe, Y.(2007).Trans-Asian cinema and the ideology of tourism. . United States -- California : University of California, Berkeley
Su, W.(2009).China's encounter with global Hollywood from 1994 to 2008----Cultural policy, film modernity, and transnational partnerships. . United States -- Minnesota : University of Minnesota

E-resource

Online resource
上海年华 -- 电影记忆.
电影资料库--中国电影网.
CnMDb 中国影视资料馆.

Researchers and institutions

Researcher
Yingjin Zhang
Dr., Chinese Studies Program, University of California, San Diego
Paul Clark
Professor of Chinese, School of Asian Studies, The University of Auckland

University departments
The School of Asian Studies. The University of Auckland
Level 4, Arts 2, 18 Symonds St, Auckland , New Zealand . http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/departments-and-schools/school-of-asian-studies

Society
中国电影家协会
北京市北三环东路22号 . http://www.cfa.org.cn/

Library
Shanghai Movie Archive Library 上海影视文献图书馆
3/F， 574 Quyang Lu 曲阳路574号 .
Shanghai Library
上海市淮海中路1555号 , Shanghai, China . http://www.library.sh.cn/english/
Beijing Film Academy Library 北京电影学院图书馆
海淀区西土城路4号 . http://library.bfa.edu.cn/index.htm

Archive
中国电影资料馆
北京市海淀区小西天文慧园路3号, Beijing, China . http://www.cfa.gov.cn/

Museum
CHINA NATIONAL FILM MUSEUM
朝阳区南影路9号, Beijing, China . http://www.cnfm.org.cn/

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China Academic Journals.
Film Index International Online.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals.

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