Armes, Roy. Third World Film Making and the West. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1987. Chapter 8 "east and Southeast Asia" focuses on pre-1949 Chinese films (136-47).
Berry, Chris, ed. Perspectives on Chinese Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 1991. A collection of essays by Chris Berry, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Paul Clark, etc.
Bishop, Robert L. Qi Lai! Mobilizing One Billion Chinese: The Chinese Communication System. Ames: Iowa State UP, 1989. Short section on film (118-24).
Browne, Nick, et. al. New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge UP., 1994. Pages 1-116 on Chinese film; pages 237-248 including a bibliography of scholarly works on Chinese filmmaking compiled by Li Huai and Paul Pickowicz.
Chen, Kaige, and Wang Zhi. King of the Children; and Tony Rayns. The New Chinese Cinema: An Introduction. London: Faber, 1989. The combination of the shooting script and Rayns' introduction.
China Handbook Editorial Committee, ed. Literature and the Arts. Beijing: Foreign Languages, 1983. Section on cinema (144-53).
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed. Information China. Oxford: Pergamon, 1989. 3 vols. Section on cinema (1092-1109).
Chow, Rey. Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema. New York: Columbia UP, 1995.
Clark, Paul. Chinese Cinema: Cultural and Politics Since 1949. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. Bibliog. 227-35.
Chen, Jack. The Chinese Theatre. London: D. Dobson, 1949.
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Dissanayake, Wismal, ed. Cinema and Cultural Identity: Reflections on Films from Japan, India, and China. Lanham: UP of America, 1988. Articles by Ma Qiang, Paul Clark, Tony Rayns, and Shao Mujun.
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Ehrlich, Linda C., and David Desser, eds. Cinematic Landscape. Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1994. A collection of essays devoted to the discussion of the relationship between cinema and painting in both China and Japan. Section on Chinese film (1-145).
Encyclopedia of New China. Beijing: Foreign Languages, 1987. Brief section on Chinese films (647-51).
Gabriel, Teshome H. Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation. Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1982. Section on "Film and Ideology in China" (59-69).
Hook, Brian, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. Section on cinema (365-67).
Howkins, John. Mass Communication in China. New York: Longman, 1982. One chapter on film (65-78).
Joris Ivens and China. Beijing: New World, 1983.
Kaplan, Fredric M., and Julian M. Sobin, eds. Encyclopedia of China Today. 3rd ed. London: Macmillan, 1982. Section on cinema (325-28).
Kuhn, Annette, and Susannah Radstone, eds. Women in Film: An International Guide. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. Entries on China (76-78), Fifth Generation (156-57), Revolutionary Model Films (339-40), and Xie Jin (433-34).
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Leyda, Jay. Dianying: An Account of Films and the Film Audience in China. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972. Non-academic.
Liang, Heng, and Judith Shapiro. After the Nightmare: A Survivor of the Cultural Revolution Reports on China Today. New York: Knopf, 1986. Profile of Wu Tianming (165-77).
Liu, Alan P. L. Communications and National Integration in Communist China. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1971. Short chapter on film industry (157-67).
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Scott, A. C. Literature and the Arts in 20th Century China. London: Allen, 1965. Chapter on cinema (65-83).
Semsel, George S., ed. Chinese Film: The State of the Art in the People's Republic. New York: Praeger, 1987. Including articles and interviews.
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Way, E. I. Motion Pictures in China. Washington, DC: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1930.
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Zha, Jianying. China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers are Transforming a Culture. New York: The New Press, 1995. (chapters on the Fifth Generation and China's TV "indoor drama")
Zhang, Yinjin. The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996
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