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"This landmark volume on early Chinese cinema is testament to the burgeoning of high-quality American-based research on Chinese cinema in general . . . .A substantial contribution to scholarship both on Chinese cinema and Republican China . . . .The achievements of the essays are threefold. They produce new empirical knowledge about areas hitherto neglected. They correct existing misapprehensions. And they open up important debates for further consideration."--Journal of Asian History
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This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long neglected by Western scholars.
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"This landmark volume on early Chinese cinema is testament to the burgeoning of high-quality American-based research on Chinese cinema in general . . . .A substantial contribution to scholarship both on Chinese cinema and Republican China . . . .The achievements of the essays are threefold. They produce new empirical knowledge about areas hitherto neglected. They correct existing misapprehensions. And they open up important debates for further consideration."
