Title Worldly desires : cosmopolitanism and cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan / Brian Hu.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Edinburgh studies in East Asian film
	Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Introduction -- Melodramas of Arrival and Departure : Jet-set Students in 1970s Taiwanese Romance -- ABCs, Mixed-race Stars, and Other Monsters of Globalization -- Setting the Stage : Hong Kong Musical Stars Take on the World -- All the Right Moves : Mobile Heroes and the Shaolin Temple Film -- The Cosmopolitan Brand : Film Policy as Cultural Work in the International Film Market -- Conclusion.
Summary	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, the book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the 20th century.
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Subject	Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century.
	Motion pictures.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Motion pictures -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
	Taiwan.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Hu, Brian. Worldly desires. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 1474428452 (OCoLC)1029864324
ISBN	9781474428477 (electronic book)
	1474428479 (electronic book)
	1474428452
	9781474428453
	9781474428484
	1474428487