TY - CHAP
T1 - Right Screen in Hong Kong
T2 - Chang Kuo-sin’s Asia Pictures and The Heroine
AU - Ng, Kenny
PY - 2024/7/10
Y1 - 2024/7/10
N2 - This chapter traces Chang Kuo-sin’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’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.
AB - This chapter traces Chang Kuo-sin’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’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.
UR - https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463727273/remapping-the-cold-war-in-asian-cinemas
UR - https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048555888/remapping-the-cold-war-in-asian-cinemas
UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91178
U2 - 10.1515/9789048555888-009
DO - 10.1515/9789048555888-009
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789463727273
SN - 9781041185253
T3 - Critical Asian Cinemas
SP - 127
EP - 146
BT - Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
A2 - Lee , Sangjoon
A2 - Espena , Darlene
PB - Amsterdam University Press
CY - Amsterdam
ER -