analyzes the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People’s Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, emphasizing the way film commented on the profound social changes that occurred in East Asia in the 1980s. These original essays offer extended analyses of the important trends, themes, and styles that define contemporary Chinese filmmaking. They demonstrate that film is an important aesthetic form and social document in the interpretation of these ongoing changes. BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780521444095 New Chinese Cinemas analyzes the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People’s Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, emphasizing the way film commented on the profound social changes that occurred in East Asia in the 1980s. These original essays offer extended analyses of the important trends, themes, and styles that define contemporary Chinese filmmaking. They demonstrate that film is an important aesthetic form and social document in the inter- pretation of these ongoing changes. * NEW CHINESE CINEMAS v *