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Studies on Chinese Silent Film History & Urban Shanghai

Hansen, Miriam, “Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent Film as Vernacular Modernism.” Film Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Autumn, 2000): 10-22.


Zhang, Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1896-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.


Chang, Michael G. “The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Movie Actresses and Public Discourses in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s.” In Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai 1922-1943, 128-159, edited by Zhang Yingjin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.


Zhang, Yingji. “Prostitution and Urban Imagination: Negotiating the Public and the Private in Chinese Films of the 1930s.” In Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai 1922-1943, 160-182, edited by Zhang Yingjin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.


Hershatter, Gail, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.


Lee, Leo Ou-fan Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.


Li, Daoxin, A History of Chinese Film Culture, 1905-2004 中国电影文化史. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005.


Li, Daoxin, Monographic Study of The History of Chinese Film 中国电影史研究专题. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2006.


Li, Daoxin, Monographic Study of The History of Chinese Film II 中国电影史研究专题II, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010.


Dong, Xinyu, Between Looking and Being Looked at: Culture Studies on Chinese Silent Cinema 看与“被看”之间:对中国无声电影的文化研究, Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 2000.


Li, Suyuan, Hu, Jubin. Chinese Silent Film History 中国无声电影史 Beijing: China Film Press,1997.


Lu, Hongshi, Shu, Xiaoming, Chinese Film History 中国电影史. Beijing: Culture and Art Press, 1998.


Li, Shaobai, History of Chinese Film 中国电影史,Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2006.


Li, Shaobai, Ying Shi Que Lue, 影史榷略, Beijing: Culture and Art Press, 2003.



Chen Jihua, The Development History of Chinese Film 中国电影发展史, China Film Press, 1963.

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