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Chinese Movies and Modern Chinese History

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Dianying: Electric Shadows, An Account of Films and the Film Audience in China. By LeydaJay, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1972. 514 pp. Index. $12.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Ralph C. Croizier
Ralph C. Croizier
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University of Rochester
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , May 1973 , pp. 501 - 505
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973

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page 504 note *The only readily available scholarly writing on Chinese films is the brief survey of their history given in Scott, A. C., Literature and the Arts in Twentieth Century China (New York: Anchor Books, 1963);Google ScholarWolfram Eberhard's recent collection of plot summaries, The Chinese Silver Screen: Hong Kong and Taiwanese Motion Pictures in the 1960's (Taipei: Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs, 23, 1972);Google ScholarWcakund, John, “Chinese Film Tmages of Invasion and Resistance,” China Quarterly (July-Sept. 1971), pp. 439–470; and articles in Charles Leslie's forthcoming volume Films and Popular Culture in Asia.Google Scholar

page 504 note *According to UNESCO, Statistical Yearbook 1971, pp. 800“805, Taiwan and predominantly Chinese communities in Asia had a combined annual cinema audience of 978,000,000. Feature-length film production was 137 for Hong Kong (1967) and 230 for Taiwan (1969). Kuo-ch“an Ying-p‘ien Ch‘u P‘in Shttliang Tung-chili- Piao (Statistical Tabic of Chinese Films) (Taipei: Taiwan Provincial Movie Producers Association, 1970).Google Scholar