readings for Accounts of Early Chinese Cinema I：From Peking to Shanghai

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Required Readings
Berry, Chris. “Chinese Film Scholarship in English”, in A Companion To Chinese Cinema, edited by Zhang Yingjin. Willey-Blackwell, 2012, p484-498
[download HERE]
Jay, Leyda. Dianying/Electric Shadows, 15-59
[download HERE]
Zhang Yingjin, “Cinema and National Traditions 1896-1926”, Chinese National Cinema, p13-22
[distributed in class]
Huang Xuelei & Xiao Zhiwei, “Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China", The Chinese Cinema Book, eds. Song Hwee-lim & Julian Ward, Palgrave& Macmillan, 2011 p47-55
[download HERE]
Reference Readings
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Film for Discussion: Lai Man-wai, Father of Hong Kong Cinema, Dir. Choi Kai-kwong, 2001

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