List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on the Romanisation of Chinese; Introduction Nick Browne; Part I. Film in the People's Republic: 1. Spatiality and subjectivity in Xie Jin's film melodrama of the new period Ma Ning; 2. Society and subjectivity: on the political economy of Chinese melodrama Nick Browne; 3. Huang Jianxin and the notion of post-socialism Paul G. Pickowicz; 4. Neither one thing nor another? Towards a study of the viewing subject and Chinese cinema in the 1980s Chris Berry; Part II. Film in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 5. Remapping Taipei Fredric Jameson; 6. The Ideology of initiation: the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien William Tay; 7. The return of the father: Hong Kong new wave and its Chinese context in the 1980s Li Cheuk-To; 8. Border crossing: mainland China's presence in Hong Kong cinema Esther Yau; 9. Two films from Hong Kong: parody and allegory Leo Ou-Fan Lee.