Introduction: The Coming of Age of Chinese Cinemas Studies; S.Hwee Lim & J.Ward PART I: TERRITORIES, TRAJECTORIES, HISTORIOGRAPHIES Transnational Chinese Cinema Studies; C.Berry National Cinema as Translocal Practice: Reflections on Chinese Film Historiography; Y.Zhang Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora; G.Marchetti Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography; S.Hwee Lim PART II: EARLY CINEMA TO 1949 Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China; X.Huang & Z.Xiao The Making of a National Cinema: Shanghai Films of the 1930s; L.Pang Wartime Cinema: Reconfiguration and Border Navigation; Y.Wang Chinese Film-making on the Eve of the Communist Revolution; P.G.Pickowicz PART III: THE FORGOTTEN PERIOD: 1949–80 The Remodelling of a National Cinema: Chinese Films of the 17 Years (1949–66); J.Ward Healthy Realism in Taiwan, 1964–80: Film Style, Cultural Policies, and Mandarin Cinema; G.Hong The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema: Emergence, Development and Decline; S.Teo PART IV: THE NEW WAVES The Fifth Generation: A Re-assessment; W.Larson Taiwan New Cinema and Its Legacy; T.Lu The Hong Kong New Wave: A Critical Reappraisal; V.P.Y.Lee PART V: STARS, AUTEURS AND GENRES Dragons Forever: Chinese Martial Arts Stars; L.Hunt The Contemporary Wuxia Revival: Genre Remaking and the Hollywood Transnational Factor; K.Chan On the Shoulders of Giants: Tsai Ming-liang, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and the Struggles of Second Generation Auteurism; J.Udden The Urban Generation: Underground and Independent Films from the PRC; J.McGrath Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema; Y.Braester Contemporary Meta Chinese Film Stardom and Transnational Transmedia Celebrity; A.Ciecko Afterword: Liquidity of Being; R.Chow