Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War discusses the cultural battle between Communist China, Nationalist Taiwan, and the United States to mobilize Hong Kong cinema and print media to sway ethnic Chinese across the world. Through untapped archival materials, contemporary sources, and numerous interviews with filmmakers, magazine editors, and student activists, Po-Shek Fu explores how global conflicts were localized and intertwined with myriad local historical experiences and cultural formation.
Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War discusses the cultural battle between Communist China, Nationalist Taiwan, and the United States to mobilize Hong Kong cinema and print media to sway ethnic Chinese across the world. Through untapped archival materials, contemporary sources, and numerous interviews with filmmakers, magazine editors, and student activists, Po-Shek Fu explores how global conflicts were localized and intertwined with myriad local historical experiences and cultural formation.
Po-Shek Fu is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on US-China cultural relations, Chinese-language cinemas, and war and culture interactions. He is the author of China Forever: Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema and Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas, and co-editor of The Cold War and Asian Cinemas.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Chapter One * East Meets West: Crossroads in The Cold War * Chapter Two * Third Force in Exile: Chinese Student Weekly and Cultural Cold War, 1952-1960 * Chapter Three * American Cinematic Intervention: Asia Pictures and The Asia Foundation * Chapter Four * Making "China" in Hong Kong: The Shaw Brothers Movietown * Chapter Five * Epilogue: "My City" In Flux * Acknowledgements * Notes * Bibliography * Filmography * Index
* Preface * Chapter One * East Meets West: Crossroads in The Cold War * Chapter Two * Third Force in Exile: Chinese Student Weekly and Cultural Cold War, 1952-1960 * Chapter Three * American Cinematic Intervention: Asia Pictures and The Asia Foundation * Chapter Four * Making "China" in Hong Kong: The Shaw Brothers Movietown * Chapter Five * Epilogue: "My City" In Flux * Acknowledgements * Notes * Bibliography * Filmography * Index
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