Introduction. From Paris Theater to Huaihai cinema : as the cinematic universe turns
Global expansion and local protection : American and Chinese film industries from inception through the early 1930s
Into the 1930s and 1940s : Hollywood's global expansion and Chinese cinema's local buildup
From Hollywood to Soviet model : building a socialist cinema
Internal reference films and the never vanishing Hollywood presence in China
Wolves at the doorstep : Hollywood reenters China
How lucrative is the Chinese market : politics intervened
What do the Chinese watch : popular Chinese films throughout the 2010s
Journey home or to the West : Chinese cinema's Hollywood dream and the Sino-Hollywood (de)coupling
The Sino-Hollywood "courtship" : film as cultural persuasion and box-office revenue.
