TY - BOOK AU - Farquhar,Mary Ann AU - Zhang,Yingjin TI - Chinese film stars SN - 0415573904 (hbk) U1 - 791.43028092 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Motion picture actors and actresses KW - China KW - Taiwan KW - Hong Kong KW - Motion pictures N1 - Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index; Introduction / Yingjin Zhang and Mary Farquhar -- Early cinema : crossing race and class divides. Anna May Wong : a border-crossing "minor" star mediating performance / Yiman Wang -- Ruan Lingyu : reflections on an individual performance style / Mette Hjort -- Li Lili : acting a lively jianmei type / Sean Macdonald -- Socialist cinema : from film star to model worker. Mei Lanfang : facial signature and political performance in opera film / John Zou -- Zhao Dan : spectrality of martyrdom and stardom / Yingjin Zhang -- Zhang Ruifang : modelling the Socialist Red star / Xiaoning Lu -- Zhong Xinghuo : Communist film worker / Krista Van Fleit Hang -- Taiwan cinema : diaspora, transvestism, non-professionalism. Ling Bo : orphanhood and post-war Sinophone film history / Zhang Zhen -- Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia : last eastern star of the late twentieth century / Tony Williams -- Lee Kang-Sheng : non-professional star / Michael Lawrence -- Hong Kong and transnational cinema : action, gender, emotion. "Bruce Lee" after Bruce Lee : a life in conjectures / Brian Hu -- Jackie Chan : star work as pain and triumph / Mary Farquhar -- Chow Yun-Fat : Hong Kong's modern tv / Xiaosheng Lin Feng -- Leslie Cheung : star as autosexual / Julian Stringer -- Jet Li : star construction and fan discourse on the internet / Sabrina Qiong Yu ER -