Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

This is the first collection of interviews with top filmmakers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora. Speaking in Images includes conversations with Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Edward Yang, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, and others. In interviews that capture each filmmaker's unique vision, the subjects offer a history of Chinese cinema over the last thirty years. This volume also includes extensive filmographies and bibliographies of critical works, a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese cinema, and a foreword by Martin Scorsese.