...This chapter discusses Takahashi Mutsuo’s experience in kindergarten, where he compared his young school days to kidnapping stories his mother used to tell him. It describes Mutsuo’s routine in kindergarten where the children were taught by a Chinese priest and his first time experience of bullying...

...This chapter discusses the architecture of East and Southeast Asia from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The Chinese architectural system had an enormous impact on the architecture of neighboring countries. These countries, however, developed their own architectural solutions...

... framework. Aguilar Laura Beppu Lisa de Certeau Michel friendship female San Gabriel Mission SGV clothing brand South San Gabriel West San Gabriel Valley SGV Alhambra High School Chan Paul Chinese ethnic Gin Bill homeownership Hong Kong immigrants from Japanese Americans and BSA Lee Sung...

... Chinese ethnic civic branding Friends of La Laguna Greenberg Miriam McWilliams Carey neoliberalism Spanish fantasy past Taiwanese Americans West San Gabriel Valley SGV space differentiated moral geography of Asian Americans as “abstract citizens ” Chinatowns suburban Mexican Americans...

... female Huang Albert Martinez Anita passing Vietnamese Americans youth Asian American Chinese ethnic ethnic studies Korean Americans Asian Americans as “abstract citizens ” Boy Scouts of America BSA Chinese Americans East Los Angeles Ixco Oscar dating interracial Taiwanese Americans Do...

...The conclusion asks how a regionally specific racial formation “travels,” and addresses the limitations and possibilities of such a framework as well as suggesting future directions for research. Chinese ethnic color blind discourse friendship interracial homeowners Mexican American...

...I trace the definitions of “approaching reality” back to the critical discussions by two filmmakers in the 1920s, Gu Kenfu and Hou Yao, to open up a comparative space between early Chinese film thinking and Bazanian ontology, and discuss the various problems in comparative studies. aporia Bazin...

... aesthetics art CLLD Chinese League of Left Wing Dramatists or Zhongguo zuoyi xijujia lianmeng consciousness bourgeois education or inculcation and cinema form xingshi Gu Kenfu hard film theory yingxing dianying lilun Hou Yao Huang Jiamo KMT Kuomintang Guomindang or Nationalist Party left wing film...

... Photoplay Service or Lianhua Film Company Wen Hwa Wenhua Film Company Wu Xingzai causality and cause cause and effect chain CCP Chinese Communist Party China Film Archive comparative methodological questions Daruvala Susan HKFA Hong Kong Film Archive Hong Kong Italian neorealism Lean David Li...

... or narration performance or performative Vindicated by the Earthenware Basin Wapan shenyuan or Ngaapun sanjyun Astor Theatre CAA Chinese Artists Association Bahe huiguan or Baatwo wuigwun colonialism dialect cinema fangyan dianying or fongjin dingjing entertainment Hollywood image KMT Kuomintang...

... Chinese film theory definitions and problematics comparative methodological questions episteme or epistemology ethics image media or medium ontology Republican period retrospective and retroactive sense or sensation spectator and spectatorship teleology affect affection or affectivity...

... Wancang Chen Yunshang Chongqing Mulan congjun Mulan Joins the Army Bu Wancang 1939 Xinhua Studio He Feiguang Hong Shen Ma Yanxiang Chinese theater cinema dispositifs Heidegger Martin intermediality spectatorship theater Xiong Foxi apparatus theory Chinese cinema Liangxin fuhuo Bu Wancang...

.... cinema Lu Mengshu fire intermediality resonance sound cinema spectatorship Bergson Henri body the Buddhism Chang Carsun Confucianism Daoism dispositifs Neo Confucianism telepathy television Zhang Junmai Chinese Institute of Mentalism Eucken Rudolf hypnotism Japan Journal of Psychic...

... of medium specificity with an inquiry of the medium and intermedial aesthetic. affective medium Cheng Bugao Chinese cinema Film Director and Film Material Pudovkin Japan Kino rezhisser i kino material Pudovkin Kuangliu Cheng Bugao 1933 montage movie theaters Odeon Theater Pickard James E Pudovkin...

...Chapter 5 follows the migration of the Chinese film industry from Shanghai to Chongqing during the Sino-Japanese War. I examine the impact of the war and the rise of propaganda that initiated both a rethinking of film language and a reorientation of the cinematic medium in terms of simultaneous...

... to Republican-era print media, theatrical performance, radio broadcasting, television, and architecture, Bao has created an archaeology of Chinese media culture. Within this context, she grounds the question of spectatorial affect and media technology in China’s experience of mechanized warfare, colonial...

...In July 1999, Canadian authorities intercepted four boats off the coast of British Columbia carrying nearly six hundred Chinese citizens who were being smuggled into Canada. Government officials held the migrants on a Canadian naval base, which it designated a port of entry. As one official later...

...In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through the 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly...

...This chapter discusses political activism of Chinese students from 1911–1990. In the twentieth century, China shifted from a “Republican” government (1911–49), to radical Maoist rule (1949–76), to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) governance (1976–90). During this time, student activists have radically...

... Saigon is intricately linked to the global emergence of Southeast Asia, particularly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It considers the contribution of ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam—with business experience and access to capital—to the capitalist economic development of Little Saigon...