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Film Stud. 2021 | Volume 1 | Issue 1 Contents Editorial Haizhou Wang and Haina Jin Introduction to Journal of Chinese Film Studies 1 Research Article Paul Clark Generating History: Rethinking Generations in Chinese Filmmaking 5 Hsiu-Chuang Deppman Realism and Fantasy in Jia Zhangke’s The World 19 Andrew Stuckey Special Effects and Spectacle: Integration of CGI in Contemporary Chinese Film 49 Stephen Teo Confucian Orientalism and Western Outlook in Martial Arts Film 65 Yaping Ding A Few Issues Surrounding Research into the General History of Chinese Film 83 Haizhou Wang The Historical Roots and Cultural Core of the Chinese Film School 101 Markus Nornes Subtitling Calligraphy 115 Gina Marchetti Chinese Film Studies Online: Technological Innovations, Pedagogical Challenges, and Teaching Chinese-Language Cinema in the Digital Age 135 David Desser New York: Gateway to the East 153 J. Chin. Film Stud. 2021 | Volume 1 | Issue 1 Seio Nakajima Studies of Chinese Cinema in Japan 167 Gary D. Rawnsley Cultural Outreach: Cinema and Soft Power 187 Stanley Rosen Obstacles to Using Chinese Film to Promote China’s Soft Power: Some Evidence from the North American Market 205.