Introduction Chapter One: Filmmakers The Power Game ZHANG YIMOU: Finding Common Ground with Spielberg JIANG WEN: The Maverick Filmmaker FENG XIAOGANG: The Money Maker WUERSHAN: The Visual Stylist ANG LEE: A Pinch of Tao, a Dash of Zen JOHNNIE TO: The Gangster Buster WANG CHANGTIAN: The Man Who Bankrolled China's Biggest Movie Star Power Chapter Two: Movie Types 69 The Triumphant Triumvirate A Hong Kong Odyssey Cannes and the Chinese Mentality Golden Horse Searches for New Positioning JIA ZHANGKE: Attempt to Recreate a Western Model Winning Foreign Audiences A Comedy About Expats The Fourth Dimension Microfilms: Short Shrift and Long Odds Pictures with Long Legs Chapter Three: Tango With Hollywood 115 Reel Increases Young Guns Shoot It Out Co-Productions China's Hollywood strategy and Hollywood's China strategy China's Obsession with the Oscars Behind the Oscar Obsession ANNA MAY WONG: The Star Who Came Before Her Time .. QIN SHAOBO: Acrobat Tumbles Into Hollywood Chapter Four: The Battles of Egos and Interests A Good Producer Is Hard to Find Killing with Kindness Cut Down to Size A Slice of Screen Muddy Waters A Raid on Pirates Where Are the Good Scripts? Upstairs and Downstairs in Aesthetic Meeting Chapter Five: Sex and Controversies 207 Sex on Chinese Screens Titanic Re-cut RUBY YANG: Safe-Sex Messenger The Flowers of War: A Bit Too Bright for its Own Good. ZHANG ZIYI: The Star in the Eye of Storms Chapter Six: Martial Arts and Historical Tidbits The Man Who Was Mao's Hero Steering Swordplay Confucius Loses His Way The Lady Vanishes From Books to Blockbusters Image Is Everything Afterword Appendices Appendix A: 100 Notable Chinese-Language Movies (2002-2012) Appendix B: More Lists for Chinese-Language Film Classics Appendix C: Major Film Organizations in China Acknowledgments Index
