China Forever

The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema

Poshek Fu, Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng Pei-pei , Ramona Curry

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University of Illinois Press
15 July 2008

Individual film directors, film-makers; Regional studies; Cinema industry

Series: Pop Culture and Politics Asia PA

Started in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history, cultural geography, and film studies, China Forever addresses how the Shaw Brothers raised the production standards of Hong Kong cinema, created a pan-Chinese cinema culture and distribution network, helped globalize Chinese-language cinema, and appealed to the cultural nationalism of the Chinese who found themselves displaced and unsettled in many parts of the world during the twentieth century. Contributors are Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng Pei-pei, Ramona Curry, Poshek Fu, Lane J. Harris, Law Kar, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Lilly Kong, Siu Leung Li, Paul G. Pickowicz, Fanon Che Wilkins, Wong Ain-ling, and Sai-shing Yung.

Contributions by: Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng Pei-pei, Ramona Curry, Poshek Fu
Edited by: Poshek Fu
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780252075001
ISBN 10: 0252075005
Series: Pop Culture and Politics Asia PA
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 15 July 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Shaw Brothers Diasporic Cinema 1 Poshek Fu 1. Shaw Cinema Enterprise and Understanding Cultural Industries 27 Lily Kong 2. Shaw's Cantonese Productions and Their Interactions with Contemporary Local and Hollywood Cinema 57 Law Kar 3. Embracing Glocalization and Hong Kong-Made Musical FIlm 74 Siu Leung Li 4. Three Readings of Hong Kong Nocturne 95 Paul G. Pickowicz 5. The Black-and-White Wenyi Films of Shaws 115 Wong Ain-ling 6. Territorialization and the Entertainment Industry of the Shaw Brothers in Southeast Asia 133 Sai-shing Yung 7. The Shaw Brothers' Malay FIlms 154 Timothy P. Barnard 8. Bridging the Pacific with Love Eterne 174 Ramona Curry 9. Black Audiences, Blaxploitation and Kung Fu Films, and Challenges to White Celluloid Masculinity 199 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua 10. Shaw Brothers Cinema and the Hip-Hop Imagination 224 Fanon Che Wilkins 11. Reminiscences of the Life of an Actress in Shaw Brothers' Movietown 246 Cheng Pei-pei (translated by Jing Jing Chang and Jeff McClain) Select Filmography 255 Lane J. Harris Contributors 257 Index 261

Poshek Fu is a professor of history, cinema studies, and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas and Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai.

Reviews for China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema

Something for everyone ... effectively lays down a solid foundation for further research. --China Quarterly Reopens the gates to the Shaw Brothers' legend. --Electronic Book Review An impressive, in-depth inquiry into the historical mutations, cultural innovations, and political implications of the rise and development of the Shaw Brothers' movie empire. Of the many volumes on Hong Kong movie industries, this is the first to focus solely on the history of the Shaw Brothers. --David Der-wei Wang, author of The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China This instructive book will be a pleasure for seasoned scholars and amateurs of Hong King cinema alike. Extremely useful for Asian cinema courses, this first book-length study of the Shaw Brothers--who were pioneers in the Chinese language and trans-Asian commercial film industry--provides valuable cultural history and global context. --Tonglin Lu, author of Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas in Taiwan and Mainland China