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Introduction -- Part I. Revising historiography : early film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Guangzhou -- 1. Translating Yingxi : Chinese film genealogy and early cinema in Hong Kong -- 2. Magic lantern shows and screen modernity in colonial Taiwan -- 3. From an imported novelty to an indigenized practices : Hong Kong cinema in the 1920s -- 4. Enlightenment, propaganda, and image creation : a descriptive analysis of the usage of film by the Taiwan education society and the colonial government before 1937 -- 5. 'Guangzhou Film' and Guangzhou urban culture -- 6. The way of the Platinum Dragon : Xue Juexian and the sound of politics in 1930s Cantonese cinema-- Part II. Intermediaries, cinephiles, and film literati -- 7. Toward the opposite side of 'vulgarity' the birth of cinema as a 'healthful entertainment' and the Shanghai YMCA -- 8. Movie matchmakers : the intermediatries between Hollywood and China in the early twentieth century -- 9. The silver star group : a first attempt at theorizing wenyi in the 1920s -- 10. Forming the movie field : film literati in Republican China -- 11. Rhythmic movement, metaphoric sound, and transcultural transmediality : Liu Na'ou and The man who has a camera (1933) -- Chinese and Japanese glossary.