Taiwan Cinema

Guo-Juin Hong is an associate professor of Chinese Literature and Culture in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.

Introduction: Taiwan Cinema and the Historiography of Absence PART I: GENRES Colonial Archives, Postcolonial Archaeology: Pre-1945 Taiwan and the Hybrid Texts of Cinema before Nation Cinema among Genres: An Unorthodox History of Taiwan's Dialect Cinema, 1955-1970 Tracing a Journeyman's Electric Shadow: Healthy Realism, Cultural Policies, and Lee Hsing, 1964-1980 Interlude: Hou Hsiao-Hsien before Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Film Aesthetics in Transition, 1980-1982 PART II: STYLE A Time to Live, a Time to Die: New Taiwan Cinema and Its Vicissitudes, 1982-1986 Island of No Return: Cinematic Narration as Retrospection in Wang Tong's Taiwan Trilogy and Beyond Anywhere But Here: The Postcolonial City in Tsai Ming-Liang's Taipei Trilogy Afterword: Cinema after Nation