Spatiality and subjectivity in Xie Jin's film melodrama of the new period / Ma Ning -- Society and subjectivity : on the political economy of Chinee melodrama / Nick Browne -- Huang Jianxin and the notion of postsocialism / Paul G. Pickowicz -- Neither one thing nor another : toward a study of the viewing subject and Chinese cinema in the 1980s / Chris Berry -- Remapping Taipei / Fredric Jameson -- The ideology of initiation : the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien / William Tay -- The return of the father : Hong Kong new wave and its Chinese context in the 1980s / Li Cheuk-to -- Border crossing : mainland China's presence in Hong Kong cinema / Esther Yau -- Two films from Hong Kong : parody and allegory / Leo Ou-fan Lee