@inbook{9f0f919609f04e02a4b15c93a32bc0a2,
title = "Right Screen in Hong Kong: Chang Kuo-sin{\textquoteright}s Asia Pictures and The Heroine",
abstract = "This chapter traces Chang Kuo-sin{\textquoteright}s 1950s media project with the support of the CIA-backed Asia Foundation. Chang launched Asia Pictures in Hong Kong to produce Chinese movies intended to present non-communist and anti-communist worldviews to diasporic Chinese audiences. Chang attempted to vie with the left-wing Great Wall Pictures by producing commercially friendly pictures. The chapter examines the production of The Heroine (1955), a historical psycho-drama about a female assassin during the transition of the Ming to Qing Dynasty in 1664. The Heroine pioneered as a “woman{\textquoteright}s picture” by figuring a female assassin in martial arts storytelling. The study assesses the contributions of Asia Pictures to Sinophone cinema and diasporic Chinese experiences amidst the leftist and rightist cultural contentions.",
author = "Kenny Ng",
year = "2024",
month = jul,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1515/9789048555888-009",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789463727273",
series = "Critical Asian Cinemas",
publisher = "Amsterdam University Press",
pages = "127–146",
editor = "{Lee }, Sangjoon and {Espena }, {Darlene }",
booktitle = "Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas",
address = "Netherlands",
}