Introduction

The poetics of Chinese cinema

Gary Bettinson

1-14

Five lessons from stealth poetics

David Bordwell

15-28

Red poetics

the films of the Chinese cultural revolution revolutionary model operas

Chris Berry

29-49

Renewal of song dynasty landscape painting aesthetics combined with a contemplative modernism in the early work of Chen Kaige

Peter Rist

51-77

Poetics of two springs

Fei Mu versus Tian Zhuangzhuang

James Udden

79-95

Remaking Ozu

Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Café lumière

Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh

97-118

Hong Kong puzzle films

the persistence of tradition

Gary Bettinson

119-145

Can poetics break bricks?

Song Hwee Lim

147-165

Poetics of parapraxis and reeducation

the Hong Kong Cantonese cinema in the 1950s

Victor Fan

167-183

China as documentary

some basic questions (inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni and Jia Zhangke)

Rey Chow

185-202