Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Chinese film stars; Part I: Early cinema: Crossing race and class divides; 2 Anna May Wong: A border-crossing 'minor' star mediating performance; 3 Ruan Lingyu: Reflections on an individual performance style; 4 Li Lili: Acting a lively jianmei type; Part II: Socialist cinema: From film star to model worker; 5 Mei Lanfang: Facial signature and political performance in opera film; 6 Zhao Dan: Spectrality of martyrdom and stardom; 7 Zhang Ruifang: Modelling the socialist Red Star
8 Zhong Xinghuo: Communist film workerPart III: Taiwan cinema: Diaspora, transvestism, non-professionalism; 9 Ling Bo: Orphanhood and post-war Sinophone film history; 10 Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia: Last Eastern star of the late twentieth century; 11 Lee Kang-sheng: Non-professional star; Part IV: Hong Kong and transnational cinema: Action, gender, emotion; 12 'Bruce Lee' after Bruce Lee: A life in conjectures; 13 Jackie Chan: Star work as
Summary
With an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of stars and stardom in Chinese cinema from the silent period to the era of globalization, this volume offers readings of the historically, geographically and aesthetically multifaceted star phenomena in China
