Poshek Fu Performing Arts Books sku-729861659 Cinema

Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas is a hardcover listed under Poshek Fu in Performing Arts Books. SKU: sku-729861659. Drawing on archival research and rare films, including films once believed lost, it studies cinema in Hong Kong and Shanghai and the ties between them.

It examines the years 1935-50, a period of war, occupation, civil war, colonialism, displacement, and poverty in China. The book addresses why films and popular culture from this period have been difficult to study, including limited access to materials and political judgments about films made during the war.

It also examines filmmakers, writers, business people, film politics, and the movement of goods, capital, and people between the two cities.