Table of Contents MINISTER OF CULTURE LUNG YING-TAI Foreword . 5 Introduction RICHARD I. SUCHENSKI “Also like Life:” The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien . 7 Critical Essays PEGGY CHIAO (HSIUNG-PING) In Search of Taiwan’s Identity: Nativism and Traditional Aesthetics in A City of Sadness . 40 NI ZHEN Transcending Local Consciousness: The Significance of Hou’s Films for Asian Cinema . 57 JEAN-MICHEL FRODON Unexpected but Fertile Convergence . 75 JEAN MA A Reinvention of Tradition: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster . 87 HASUMI SHIGEHIKO Who Can Put Out the Flame? On Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flowers of Shanghai . 106 JAMES QUANDT Three Times Three: A Certain Slant of Light in the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien . 118 JAMES UDDEN Dust in the Wind : A Definitive Hou/New Cinema Work . 130 WEN TIEN-HSIANG The Unmarried Women . 144 ABÉ MARK NORNES Hou Hsiao-hsien and Narrative Space . 154 KENT JONES In Time . 169 Three Filmmakers on Hou Hsiao-hsien OLIVIER ASSAYAS Hou Hsiao-hsien: In China and Elsewhere . 177 JIA ZHANG-KE A Bard Singing the Remembrances of a Nation . 182 KOREEDA HIROKAZU Things I Learned from Hou . 185 Interview Working within Limits: A Conversation with Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chu Tien-wen . 186 Collaborators CHEN HUAI-EN, CINEMATOGRAPHER Experiments with Realism . 199 MARK LEE (PING-BIN), CINEMATOGRAPHER Exploring Visual Ideas . 209 LIAO CHING-SUNG, EDITOR Finding the Right Balance . 215 TU DUU-CHIH, SOUND A New Era of Sound . 222 CHEN KUO-FU, PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR Conscious Engagement with Reality . 225 ICHIYAMA SH O¯ Z O¯ , PRODUCER Working with Hou Hsiao-hsien . 228 CHUNG MONG-HONG, DIRECTOR AND CINEMATOGRAPHER What I Know about Hou Hsiao-hsien . 231 JACK KAO (CHIEH), ACTOR Acting without Boundaries . 236 HWARNG WERN-YING, PRODUCTION DESIGNER Filmmaking is like Cooking . 238 CHU TIEN-WEN, SCREENWRITER Production Material for Three Times . 242 APPENDIX Biographical Timeline . 258 Filmography . 260 Selected Bibliography . 264 Contributors . 266 A Note on Names and Romanization . 268 The Retrospective: List of Venues . 268 Acknowledgments . 269 Image Credit List . 269.