China Forever - 9780252032738

China ForeverThe Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema\nAuthor(s): Poshek Fu, Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng Pei-pei, Ramona Curry, Poshek Fu, Lane J Harris, Law Kar, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Lilly Kong, Siu Leung Li\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252032738, 978-0252032738\nSynopsis\nStarted in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history, cultural geography, and film studies, China Forever addresses how the Shaw Brothers raised the production standards of Hong Kong cinema, created a pan-Chinese cinema culture and distribution network, helped globalize Chinese-language cinema, and appealed to the cultural nationalism of the Chinese who found themselves displaced and unsettled in many parts of the world during.