Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora

摘要

"Transnational Chinese cinema" has become an ever-more handy portmanteau term for the cluster of industries, people and products that have turned film from the Chinese-speaking world into a global commodity. Like most portmanteau terms, the phrase is fuzzy; but that vagueness is crucial to its value. The reality is that film which is in some way "Chinese" is now so multi-form that it stumps attempts to define it in tidy ways.