This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long neglected by Western scholars.

张英进，美国斯坦福大学比较文学博士，现任圣地亚哥加州大学文学系教授，上海交通大学人文学院访问讲席教授，曾任印第安纳大学教授。英文书籍包括专著《中国现代文学与电影中的城市》（1996，中文版2007）、《中国电影百科全书》（1998）、《影像中国》（2002，中文版2008）、《中国电影史》（2004）、《全球化中国的电影，空间与多地性》（2010），编辑论文集《中国比较文学论文集》（1998）、《民国时期的上海电影与城市文化》（1999，中文版2011）、《当代中国的另类电影文化》（2006）、《华语电影明星研究》（2010，中文版2011）、《中国电影指南》（即出）。另出版中文书籍《审视中国》（2006）、《电影的世纪末怀旧》（2006）、《多元中国》（2011）等，以及在中英文的学术期刊与论文集中发表的大量文章。

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Culinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country's many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark Swislocki focuses on Shanghai—a food lover's paradise—as a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, and exam...(展开全部)

Culinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country's many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark Swislocki focuses on Shanghai—a food lover's paradise—as a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, and exam...(展开全部)

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Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim ci...(展开全部)

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