Bringing together work from established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection expands existing scholarship on cinemas of the Sinosphere by revealing forgotten and emerging aspects of film history.

Lin Feng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester (UK) and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She currently is serving as the Honorary Secretary for the British Association for Chinese Studies.

Introduction 1. A Cinematic Anatomy of Place: Revisiting Manchuria in Colonial Films 2. The Legends of Ma Yongzhen and Ma Suzhen: From Shanghai Silent Film to Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema 3. Voicing the West: Dubbing Artists and Invisible Labour behind the Socialist Screen 4. The City as Marginalized Space: A History of the Urban in Chinese Socialist Animation (1950s-80s) 5. Crazy Bumpkins and City Slickers: Anticipating the Hong Kong New Wave in Shaw Brothers' 1970s Comedies 6. A New Inception: Reintroducing Film Genres in 1980s People's Republic of China Cinema 7. Qiong Yao Fiction and Chinese Film of the 1980s 8. Ebola Syndrome (1996) and the Marginalisation of Popular Taste in Hong Kong Film History 9. The Star Text of Anita Mui: Gender, Genre and Chineseness in Hong Kong Cinema 10. An Alternative Romance: The Gendered Codes in New Taiwanese-language Melodrama 11. The Look, Hook, and Book with Chinese Characteristics of the New Mainstream Film The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)