Introduction 1
Chapter One：Filmmakers 11
The Power Game 12
ZHANG YIMOU：Finding Common Ground with Spielberg 18
JIANG WEN：The Maverick Filmmaker 22
FENG XIAOGANG：The Money Maker 28
WUERSHAN：The Visual Stylist 36
ANG LEE：A Pinch of Tao,a Dash of Zen 40
JOHNNIE TO：The Gangster Buster 49
WANG CHANGTIAN：The Man Who Bankrolled China's Biggest Movie 54
Star Power 65
Chapter Two：Movie Types 69
The Triumphant Triumvirate 70
A Hong Kong Odyssey 75
Cannes and the Chinese Mentality 79
Golden Horse Searches for New Positioning 85
JIA ZHANGKE：Attempt to Recreate a Western Model 89
Winning Foreign Audiences 93
A Comedy About Expats 98
The Fourth Dimension 102
Microfilms：Short Shrift and Long Odds 106
Pictures with Long Legs 111
Chapter Three：Tango With Hollywood 115
Reel Increases 116
Young Guns Shoot It Out 120
Co-Productions 126
China's Hollywood strategy and Hollywood's China strategy 136
China's Obsession with the Oscars 144
Behind the Oscar Obsession 153
ANNA MAY WONG：The Star Who Came Before Her Time 161
QIN SHAOBO：Acrobat Tumbles Into Hollywood 166
Chapter Four：The Battles of Egos and Interests 169
A Good Producer Is Hard to Find 170
Killing with Kindness 176
Cut Down to Size 180
A Slice of Screen 184
Muddy Waters 191
A Raid on Pirates 195
Where Are the Good Scripts？ 200
Upstairs and Downstairs in Aesthetic Meeting 203
Chapter Five：Sex and Controversies 207
Sex on Chinese Screens 208
Titanic Re-cut 213
RUBY YANG：Safe-Sex Messenger 220
The Flowers of War：A Bit Too Bright for its Own Good 223
ZHANG ZIYI：The Star in the Eye of Storms 228
Chapter Six：Martial Arts and Historical Tidbits 249
The Man Who Was Mao's Hero 250
Steering Swordplay 254
Confucius Loses His Way 265
The Lady Vanishes 269
From Books to Blockbusters 272
Image Is Everything 275
Afterword 277
Appendices 281
Appendix A：100 Notable Chinese-Language Movies （2002-2012） 282
Appendix B：More Lists for Chinese-Language Film Classics 321
Appendix C：Major Film Organizations in China 330
Acknowledgments 332
Index 333