Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema

by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (editors)

Duke University Press

March 2006, 343 pages, $23.95

[25 July 2006]

by Raquel Laneri

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It makes sense that Hong Kong -- a region with a confused identity -- would produce cinema both local and universal.

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