Acknowledgements Introduction Sean Metzger and Olivia Khoo Part I: Historiography Chapter 1 Celebratory Screens: Chinese Cinema in the New Millennium Dai Jinhua Chapter2 Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tong and New Taiwan Cinema Guo-Juin Hong Chapter 3 Socialist Geographies, Internationalist Temporalities and Travelling Film Technologies: Sino-Soviet Film Exchange in the 1950s and 1960s Tina Mai Chen Chapter 4 Hong Kong Ghost in the Japanese Shell? Cross-racial Performance and Transnational Chinese Cinema Kwai-Cheung Lo Chapter 5 Jia Zhangke and the Temporality of Postsocialist Chinese Cinema: In the Now (and then) Chris Berry Part II: Capital - Economic and Industrial Contexts Chapter 6 From BitTorrent Piracy to Creative Industries: Hong Kong Cinema Emptied Out Laikwan Pang Chapter 7 Genre Film, Media Corporations and the Commercialization of the Chinese Film Industry: The Case of 'New Year Comedies' Shuyu Kong Chapter 8 Demand for Cultural Representation: Emerging Independent Film and Video on Lesbian Desires Denise Tse Shang Tang Part III: Epistemologies Chapter 9 The Queer Space of China: Expressive Desire in Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu David L. Eng Chapter 10 Saving Face, or the Future Perfect of Queer Chinese/American Cinema? Sean Metzger Chapter 11 Remaking the Past, Interrupting the Present: The Spaces of Technology and Futurity in Contemporary Chinese Blockbusters Olivia Khoo Chapter 12 Multiple-screen Realities Paolo Voci Contributors Index.