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Preface

1. Turing Limitations into Style: An Interview with Qiao Liang, Director of Crested Ibis - Wang Yao

2. The 'Regional Flavours' of Hong Kong Cinema in the Post-Integration Era - Zhao Weifang

3. Changes in Contemporary Chinese Film Aesthetics - Wu Guanping

4. A Cultural Study of Stardom in 1920s China - Li Zhenlin and Cheng Gong

5. Ways of Seeing and Physical Governance: On the Reconstruction of Reception Aesthetics by Virtual Reality Technology - Yi Yuxiao

6. Moxi: A Study of Narrative Structures in Early Chinese Cinema - Wan Chuanfa

7. Cinematic Innovation: Networked Living in Sci-Fi Film Narratives - Huang Mingfen

8. A Panel Discussion on Several Key Problems Facing the Development of Art Theory as an Academic Discipline in China -  Wu Guanping

9. The Modified and the Excluded: On the Logic of Bodily Transformation in Contemporary Urban Film - Chen Yanjiao

10. Styling the Supernatural: Creative Character Design in Chinese Supernatural Film - An Yan

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Advisory and Editorial Board

Notes on Intellect China Library Series

The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook continues to showcase the best academic debates, discussions and research published in the prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy from the previous year. This volume brings together specially selected articles, covering the most up-to-date topics in Chinese cinema studies appearing for the first time in English, in order to bridge the gap in cross-cultural research in cinema and media studies, as well as to encourage new conversations.

The Journal of Beijing Film Academy was first published in 1984. It is edited by the staff of the Department of Film Studies at the Beijing Film Academy and is highly respected for showcasing the foremost research in Chinese cinema and film education.