Description:
Reenvisioning early Chinese cinema and the urban experience
Review Quotes:
"In this meticulously researched book, Qiliang He reinterprets the early history of cinema in China by examining the challenges moviegoing posed to social order and the efforts of Shanghai's colonial authorities to regulate cinema through legislation and censorship. With attention to Shanghai's foreign residents, Cinema and the Cosmopolitan City reveals how cinema functioned as a contact zone where cosmopolitanism and nationalism mutually reinforced one another."
-- "Chenshu Zhou, University of Pennsylvania"