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Worldly Desires : Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Paperback / softback Book

Worldly Desires : Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan Paperback / softback

Part of the Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film series

Paperback / softback

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How does cinema imagine our place in the world? This book looks at the studios, films and policies that charted the transnational vision of Hong Kong and Taiwan, two places with an uneasy relationship to the idea of nationhood.

Examining the cultural, political and industrial overlaps between these cinemas - as well as the areas where they uniquely parallel each other - author Brian Hu brings together perspectives from cinema studies, Chinese studies and Asian American studies to show how culture is produced in the spaces between empires.

With case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films and the romantic melodramas of 1970s Taiwan, this book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the twentieth century.

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