{"product_id":"cinema-in-china-prior-to-wwi","title":"Cinema in China prior to WWI","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book looks at the earliest history of exhibiting firms in China at the turn of the\u003cbr\u003ecentury. The spread of cinema in China as a continuation of the lantern tradition is\u003cbr\u003econtextualized and conventionalized in the late Qing sociopolitical milieu, featuring\u003cbr\u003ea strong foreign monopoly and regional imbalance. However, the key element for\u003cbr\u003ecinema’s development in China is Chinese audience per se.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The book has produced something truly remarkable and tremendous.”\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                     —Frank Bren\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The work offers a lot of new insights into the history of the cinema in China. Though\u003cbr\u003ethe film business was brought from abroad to the mainland, the candidate was never\u003cbr\u003enationalistic in her approach to the phenomenon of foreign entertainment in China.”\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                     —Wolfgang Kubin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The author painstakingly combed through a large number of historical newspapers,\u003cbr\u003eespecially English-language newspapers published both in and outside China, and\u003cbr\u003epieced together a convincing picture of the earliest history of Chinese cinema.”\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                       —Xuelei Huang  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247671038296,"sku":"9783631765401","price":68.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783631765401_359cf7f6-b6ff-4575-9458-1b80a87306ab.jpg?v=1765499439","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cinema-in-china-prior-to-wwi","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}