Stephen Teo, Ph.D., is a filmmaker, critic, and film historian. He is Associate Professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and author of Hong Kong Cinema (BFI, 1997).

FOREWORD
I. Northerners and Southerners
1. Early Hong Kong Cinema: The Shanghai Hangover
2. Shanghai Redone: Les Sing-Song Girls in Hong Kong
3. The Early Cantonese Cinema
4. Father and Son
5. The Romantic and the Cynical Mandarins
II. Martial Artists
6. The Dao of King Hu
7. The Sword and the Fist
8. Bruce Lee: Narcissus and the Little Dragon
9. Jacky Chan: The Other Kung Fu Dragon
III. Path Breakers
10. The New Wave
11. The New Wave's Action Auteurs
12. The Second Wave
IV. Characters on the Edge
13. Reverence and Fear: Hong Kong's China Syndrome
14. Ghosts, Cadavers, Demons and Other Hybrids
15. Bad Customers and Big Timers
16. Postmodernism and the End of Hong Kong Cinema
BIO-FILMOGRAPHIES
INDEX