Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia

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Jeremy E. Taylor

Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas

The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia

Jeremy E. Taylor

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Routledge
29 October 2013

Cinema industry

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

The Amoy-dialect film industry emerged in the 1950s, producing cheap, b-grade films in Hong Kong for direct export to the theatres of Manila Chinatown, southern Taiwan and Singapore. Films made in Amoy dialect - a dialect of Chinese - reflected a particular period in the history of the Chinese diaspora, and have been little studied due to their ambiguous place within the wider realm of Chinese and East Asian film history. This book represents the first full length, critical study of the origin, significant rise and rapid decline of the Amoy-dialect film industry.

Rather than examining the industry for its own sake, however, this book focuses on its broader cultural, political and economic significance in the region. It questions many of the assumptions currently made about the ‘recentness’ of transnationalism in Chinese cultural production, particularly when addressing Chinese cinema in the Cold War years, as well as the prominence given to ‘the nation’ and ‘transnationalism’ in studies of Chinese cinemas and of the Chinese Diaspora. By examining a cinema that did not fit many of the scholarly models of ‘transnationalism’, that was not grounded in any particular national tradition of filmmaking and that was largely unconcerned with ‘nation-building’ in post-war Southeast Asia, this book challenges the ways in which the history of Chinese cinemas has been studied in the recent past.

By: Jeremy E. Taylor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415728324
ISBN 10: 0415728320
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 29 October 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Rethinking Transnationalism 2. Defining Amoy-Dialect Cinema 3. Origins and Development 4. The Shaping of a Cinema 5. The ‘New Amoy-Dialect Films’ 6. A Cold-War Industry 7. The End of Amoy-Dialect Cinema

Jeremy E. Taylor is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.

Reviews for Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy-Dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia

"""Jeremy Taylor has written a delightful book about the Hokkien-language cinema industry during the 1950s and early 1960s... Taylor has searched extraordinarily widely to obtain relevant material. In addition to reading extensively in the scholarly literature, he has conducted interviews, obtained much information from a broad variety of newspapers and trade journals, and visited and mined many archives. The very readable text has 17 photographs illustrating many of the book’s themes... For those interested in Overseas Chinese, Taiwan or Chinese cinema, this book is a gem!""- J. Bruce Jacobs, Monash University; The China Journal, No. 67"