Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by The University of Michigan Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0472053728 (ISBN 10) and 9780472053728 (ISBN 13).

This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.