Meticulously researched, Chinese Film focuses on the multiple manifestations of realism in the longue durée history, tracking a key aesthetic-political articulation embedded in the film medium in general and Chinese cinema in particular. Especially valuable is Jason McGrath’s insistence on situating each mode of realism and its transformation within richly textured historical contexts.
Yiman Wang, author of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood