Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: The Coming of Age of Chinese Cinemas Studies; S.Hwee Lim & J.Ward.- PART I: TERRITORIES, TRAJECTORIES, HISTORIOGRAPHIES.- Transnational Chinese Cinema Studies; C.Berry.- National Cinema as Translocal Practice: Reflections on Chinese Film Historiography; Y.Zhang.- Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora; G.Marchetti.- Six Chinese Cinemas in Search of a Historiography; S.Hwee Lim.- PART II: EARLY CINEMA TO 1949.- Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China; X.Huang & Z.Xiao.- The Making of a National Cinema: Shanghai Films of the 1930s; L.Pang.- Wartime Cinema: Reconfiguration and Border Navigation; Y.Wang.- Chinese Film-making on the Eve of the Communist Revolution; P.G.Pickowicz.- PART III: THE FORGOTTEN PERIOD: 1949–80.- The Remodelling of a National Cinema: Chinese Films of the 17 Years (1949–66); J.Ward.- Healthy Realism in Taiwan, 1964–80: Film Style, Cultural Policies, and Mandarin Cinema; G.Hong.- The Hong Kong Cantonese Cinema: Emergence, Development and Decline; S.Teo.- PART IV: THE NEW WAVES.- The Fifth Generation: A Re-assessment; W.Larson.- Taiwan New Cinema and Its Legacy; T.Lu.- The Hong Kong New Wave: A Critical Reappraisal; V.P.Y.Lee.- PART V: STARS, AUTEURS AND GENRES.- Dragons Forever: Chinese Martial Arts Stars; L.Hunt.- The Contemporary Wuxia Revival: Genre Remaking and the Hollywood Transnational Factor; K.Chan.- On the Shoulders of Giants: Tsai Ming-liang, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and the Struggles of Second Generation Auteurism; J.Udden.- The Urban Generation: Underground and Independent Films from the PRC; J.McGrath.- Contemporary Mainstream PRC Cinema; Y.Braester.- Contemporary Meta Chinese Film Stardom and Transnational Transmedia Celebrity; A.Ciecko.- Afterword: Liquidity of Being; R.Chow.- Appendix.- Book-length Studies of Chinese Cinemas in the English Language; W.Wang, L.Williams & S.Hwee Lim.- Chinese Names; Z.Yijie.- Chinese Film Titles; Z.Yijie.- Index.