YING ZHU is Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Foreword
Preface
Chinese Cinema: A Culture and and Economy in Disarray
Cinematic Modernization and Chinese Cinems"s Firt Art Wave
Economic Reform and Populist Cinematic Revival
From New Wave to Post-New Wave
Post-Wave: "It's the Economy, Stupid"
Shadowplay: Early Chinese Cinema in the Shadow of Hollywood
Chinese Cinema: A Cultural or and Economic Issue?
Index

The political economy and culture of Chinese cinema during the era of China's prolonged economic reform has not until now been examined in detail. Ying Zhu's new and comprehensive study examines the institutional as well as the stylistic transitions of Chinese cinema from pedagogy to art to commerce, focusing on the key film reform measures as well as the metamorphosis of Chinese Fifth Generation films from art film narration-as in Chen Kaige's 1984 Yellow Earth-to post-New-Wave classical film narration-as in the same director's 1993 Farewell, My Concubine. Zhu's work reconciles the stylistic, cultural, and economic dimensions of the nation's cinematic output, also providing the first systematic institutional analysis of an industry in a state of constant flux.