Shaw Brothers

  • Check out my book “Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan”

    Over a decade in the making, my book Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan is now available from Edinburgh University Press. The book examines the role that cinema played in imagining Hong Kong and Taiwan’s place in the world from the 1950s to the early 2000s. Here’s the official book jacket

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  • Linda Lin Dai at Shaw Brothers

    This essay was commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for the impressive Linda Lin Dai retrospective they mounted in 2011. The essay can also be found at the ACMI website here. With the impact of Communist ideology on Chinese cinema after 1949, “the star” being replaced with “the film worker”, it was up to

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