Fu, Poshek, « Japanese occupation, Shanghai exiles, and postwar Hong Kong cinema » (2008)

Title : « Japanese occupation, Shanghai exiles, and postwar Hong Kong cinema »

Author(s) : Fu, Poshek

Year : 2008

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : cultural;war

Journal : The China Quarterly

Volume : 194

Start page : 380

End page : 394

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Examines a little-explored subject in a critical period of the history of Hong Kong and China. Shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945, China was in the throes of civil war between the Nationalists and Communists, while British colonial rule was restored in Hong Kong. The Communist victory in 1949 deepened the Cold War in Asia. In this chaotic and highly volatile context, the flows and linkages between Shanghai and Hong Kong intensified as many Chinese sought refuge in the British colony. This Shanghai-Hong Kong nexus played a significant role in the rebuilding of the postwar Hong Kong film industry and paved the way for its transformation into the capital of a global pan-Chinese cinema in the 1960's and 1970's. Focusing on a study of the cultural, political, and business history of postwar Hong Kong cinema, the article opens up new avenues to understand 20th-century Chinese history and culture through the translocal and regional perspective of the Shanghai-Hong Kong nexus