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Chinese Cinemas Journal of ISSN 1750-8061 Chinese Cinemas Volume 2 Number 1 – 2008 2.1 Volume Two Number One Two Volume Journal of Chinese Cinemas Journal of Journal of ISSN 1750-8061 Chinese Cinemas Volume 2 Number 1 – 2008 2.1 Editorial 3–8 Introduction, or, What’s in an ‘s’? Chris Berry and Laikwan Pang | Articles Number One Two Volume Journal of 9–21 The ‘transnational’ as methodology: transnationalizing Chinese film studies through the example of The Love Parade and its Chinese remakes Yiman Wang 23–35 Inhibition vs. exhibition: political censorship of Chinese and foreign cinemas in Chinese postwar Hong Kong Kenny K. K. Ng 37–51 Re-nationalizing China’s film industry: case study on the China Film Group and film marketization Cinemas Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis 53–65 Transnation/transmedia/transtext: border-crossing from screen to stage in Greater China Rossella Ferrari 67–79 Filmic imaginations of the Malaysian Chinese: ‘Mahua cinema’ as a transnational Chinese cinema Zakir Hossain Raju 81 Call for Papers for Publication from 2009 Journals tellect in | Film Studies ISSN 1750-8061 21 intellect 9 771750 806006 www.intellectbooks.com JCC_2.1_Cover.indd 1 4/29/08 6:22:23 PM JCC_2.1_00_FM.qxd 4/9/08 9:59 PM Page 1 Journal of Chinese Cinemas Volume 2 Number 1 2008 The scope of Journal of Chinese Cinemas (JCC) Journal Editor The Journal of Chinese Cinemas is a major new, refereed academic journal Song Hwee Lim devoted to the study of Chinese film. The time is ripe for a new journal Film Studies that will draw on the recent world-wide growth of interest in Chinese Department of Modern Languages cinemas. An incredibly diverse range of films has emerged from all parts University of Exeter of the Chinese-speaking world over the last few years, with an ever- Queen’s Building increasing number of border-crossing collaborative efforts prominent The Queen’s Drive among them. These exciting developments provide an abundant ground Exeter EX4 4QH for academic research. United Kingdom By providing comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the subject, the Tel: +44 (0)1392 263153 Journal of Chinese Cinemas will be an invaluable resource for both academics Fax: +44 (0)1392 264222 and students. We welcome submissions germane to any aspect of Chinese E-mail: [email protected] cinemas, including, but not limited to, the following topics: • Stardom, including the performance of Chinese actors/actresses in both Chinese- and non-Chinese-language films, as well as the performance of Associate Editor non-Chinese actors/actresses in Chinese-language films Julian Ward • Genre films, especially neglected ones such as musicals, melodrama and Asian Studies films of the Maoist era University of Edinburgh • Key directors from both mainstream/popular and experimental cinema 8 Buccleuch Place • Critical evaluation of films from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore Edinburgh EH8 9LW and the Chinese diaspora United Kingdom • Transnational and multilingual film production • The reappraisal of classics and the discovery of the new Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4226 The Journal of Chinese Cinemas also welcomes suggestions for special Fax: +44 (0) 131 651 1258 issues and collaboration with guest editors on these. Please contact the E-mail: [email protected] Editor in the first instance. Guest Editors Editorial Board Chris Berry Kenneth Chan – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Goldsmiths, University of London Jeroen de Kloet – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nick Kaldis – State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Laikwan Pang Helen Hok-Sze Leung – Simon Fraser University, Canada Chinese University of Hong Kong Kien Ket Lim – National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Fran Martin – University of Melbourne, Australia Louise Williams – University of Leeds, UK Audrey Yue – University of Melbourne, Australia Advisory Board Chris Berry – Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Yomi Braester – University of Washington at Seattle, USA Rey Chow – Brown University, USA Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu – University of California at Davis, USA Laikwan Pang – Chinese University of Hong Kong, PRC Paul Pickowicz – University of California at San Diego, USA Shu-mei Shih – University of California at Los Angeles, USA Yingjin Zhang – University of California at San Diego, USA The Journal of Chinese Cinemas is published three times a year by Intellect, The Mill, ISSN 1750–8061 Parnall Road, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK. The current subscription rates are £33 (personal) and £210 (institutional). Postage within the UK is free whereas it is £9 within the EU and £12 elsewhere. Advertising enquiries should be addressed to: marketing@ intellectbooks.com © 2008 Intellect Ltd. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use or the internal or personal use of specific clients is granted by Intellect Ltd for libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) in the UK or the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Transactional Reporting Service Printed and bound in Great Britain in the USA provided that the base fee is paid directly to the relevant organization. by 4edge, UK. JCC_2.1_00_FM.qxd 4/9/08 9:59 PM Page 2 Notes for Contributors General In this case, they should be separated A. Grossman (ed.), Queer Asian Cinema: Articles submitted to the Journal of Chinese from the body of the text and indented. Shadows in the Shade, New York: Cinemas should be original and not under • Omitted material should be signalled Harrington Park Press, pp. 187–200. consideration by any other publication. thus: [...]. Note that there are no spaces • ‘Anon.’ for items for which you do not They should be written in a clear and between the suspension points. have an author (because all items must be concise style. • Avoid breaking up quotations with an referenced with an author within the text) Language insertion, for example: ‘This approach • Year of publication in brackets The journal uses standard British English. to mise-en-scène’, says MacPherson, • Commas, not full stops, between parts The Editors reserve the right to alter usage ‘is not sufficiently elaborated’ (MacPherson of item to these ends. 1998: 33). • Absence of ‘in’ after the title of a chapter within a monograph, but please References Referees use ‘in’ after chapters in edited volumes • The first mention of a film in the article The Journal of Chinese Cinemas is a refereed • Name of translator of a book within (except if it is in the title) should include journal. Strict anonymity is accorded to brackets after title and preceded by its original title, the director’s surname both authors and referees. ‘trans.’, not ‘transl.’ or ‘translated by’ (not Christian name), and the year of • Absence of ‘no.’ for the journal number Opinion release, thus: Vive L’amour (Aiqing wansui) • Colon between journal volume and The views expressed in the Journal of (Tsai, 1994). number Chinese Cinemas are those of the authors, In all subsequent references the title should • ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’ before page extents and do not necessarily coincide with those be translated into English, unless the film is of the Editors or the Editorial or Advisory known in all markets by its original title, Web references Boards. for example Lan Yu. These are no different from other Submission • We use the Harvard system for biblio- references; they must have an author, • Submit the article as an e-mail graphical references. 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