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Introduction to a special issue on Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) 台湾电影特刊(taiyupian)简介

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2020-06-16 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2020.1778831

C. Berry, Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley

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An alternative cinema of poverty: Understanding the Taiwanese-language film industry 另一种贫穷的电影:了解台湾语电影产业

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2020-06-12 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2020.1778219

C. Berry

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From provincial to international: Competing imaginings and representations of taiyupian in news reports between 1956 and 1958 从地方到国际:1956 - 1958年间新闻报道中对太极片的竞争想象与表现

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2020.1778830

Pi Liang

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Remixing Chineseness: Censorship, disembodiment and the voice in Hong Kong digital media 重新融合中国性:香港数码媒体的审查、分离与声音

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2020.1712776

M. Chan

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Imagining the future in post-millennial Hong Kong cinema: Visualizing the local, the national and the global in cultural imaginaries 后千禧年香港电影的未来想象:在文化想象中视觉化本地、国家和全球

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2020.1733211

Helena Wu

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Yesterday once more: Hong Kong-China coproductions and the myth of mainlandization 昨天又来了:香港与中国内地合拍的电影和大陆化的神话

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2020.1713436

Gary Bettinson

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Cultural mediation and transformative mechanism: An ethnographic study of the documentary organization CNEX and its training events 文化中介和变革机制:纪录片组织CNEX及其培训活动的民族志研究

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2020.1717066

S. Tong

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China’s digital media industries and the challenge of overseas markets 中国数字媒体产业与海外市场的挑战

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2019.1678480

M. Keane

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The Chinese film industry: Emerging debates 中国电影产业:新兴的争论

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2019.1678235

W. Leung, Sangjoon Lee

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The personal, the political and the popular: Sino-Japanese film collaboration in the early reform era 个人、政治与大众：改革初期的中日电影合作

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Journal of Chinese Cinemas Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2019.1678475

Wesley Jacks

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