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The publication of this book was supported by an Imagine Fund grant for the Arts, Design, and Humanities, an annual award from the University of Minnesota’s Provost Office.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Learn more at the TOME website, available at openmonographs.org.

Portions of chapter 1 are adapted from “Acting Real: Cinema, Stage, and the Modernity of Performance in Chinese Silent Film,” in The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas, edited by Carlos Rojas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear. Portions of chapters 4 and 5 are adapted from “Cultural Revolution Model Opera Films and the Realist Tradition in Chinese Cinema,” The Opera Quarterly 26, no. 2–3 (2010): 343–76; by permission of Oxford University Press. Portions of chapter 6 are adapted from “Post–Socialist Realism in Chinese Cinema,” in Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution, edited by Jie Li and Enhua Zhang, published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2016.

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