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With case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films, the book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the 20th century.

Worldly Desires

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 10 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9781474428453
      978-1474428453
      ISBN-10 1474428452
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      Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films, the book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the 20th century.

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