Chinese Movie Magazines: From Charlie Chaplin to Chairman Mao 1921-1951 (ENG)

Organized thematically within a chronological structure, this book includes more than 500 full-colour covers – many of them rare – from the Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection in Berkeley’s C. V. Starr East Asian Library, the largest collection of Eastern movie memorabilia outside China. Fonoroff’s text relates the magazines to the times in which they were created, embracing everything from cinematic trends to politics and world events without neglecting gossip, fashion and pop culture. The result is a survey of the era’s movie publications, doubling as a journey through the urban cultural milieu of this transformative period that sheds light on a vast forgotten world. This book will appeal to Chinese film scholars, social historians and connoisseurs of the graphic arts in equal measure.Table of ContentsIntroduction • 1. The Hollywood of the East: The Rise of the Chinese Film Industry, 1921–1932 • 2. Stars of the Page and Screen: A Golden Age for Movies and Magazines, 1932–1937 • 3. Celluloid Skirmishes: Creative Responses to Wartime Restrictions, 1937–1945 • 4. From Pillar to Post: Liberation and the Road to State Control, 1945–1951 About the Author Paul Fonoroff served as film critic for the South China Morning Post for more than a quarter of a century. He also hosted over 1,000 movie-related TV shows in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, and had roles in twenty movies. He is a member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society and the Performing Artists Guild of Hong Kong, and is an advisor to the Hong Kong Film Archives. His unique collection of Chinese movie memorabilia was acquired by the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015, and housed in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library.

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