Chinese cinemas: international perspectives / Felicia Chan and Andy Willis -- Part I. Textual constructions and industrial contexts -- The deconstruction and intensification of "China", or primitive passions in Man of Tai Chi / Paul Bowman -- Internationalising memory: traumatic histories and the PRC's quest to win an Oscar / A.T. McKenna and Kiki Tianqi Yu -- Once upon a time in China and America: transnational storytelling and the recent films of Peter Chan / Gary Bettinson -- Mediating trauma: the Nanjing Massacre, City of life and death, and affect as soft power / Corey Kai Nelson Schultz -- Part II: Shifting foci: global and local Chinese cinemas -- The uncertainty principle: reframing independent film in twenty-first century Chinese cinema / Eddie Bertozzi -- Crossing Hennessy, Big Blue Lake and flowing stories: re-centring the local in recent Hong Kong cinema / Andy Willis -- Blurred lines: the dialectics of the margins and the mainstream in The wedding banquet (Ang Lee, 1993) and Saving face (Alice Wu, 2004) / Juliette Ledru -- Part III. Woman in the frame -- First, not only: writing Chinese women's film authorship / Felicia Chan -- Women characters, women's cinema and neo-liberal Chinese modernity: doubled and split / Chris Berry -- The grain of jade: woman, repression, and Fei Mu's Spring in a small town / Rey Chow -- Part IV. International perspectives -- Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo Cina (1972): a moment of "explicitation" / Valentina Vitali -- The Melbourne Controversy: Jia Zhangke and the Melbourne International Film Festival 2009 / Robert Hamilton -- A Chinese diasporic festival film in the making: the interesting Case of Ann Hui's A simple life / Ruby Cheung.
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