Singapore University of Social Sciences

Before 1930, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaya had successively launched movies made by the Chinese, for example, ""Dingjun Mountain"" (1905), ""Zhuangzi's Wife Test"" (1913), ""Whose Fault Is It"" (1925) to ""New Guest"" (1927). At the same time, Shanghai developed into a major film production centre, spreading Chinese culture to Hong Kong, Nanyang and other places through film. Since then, Chinese in different places have devoted themselves to local production and also introduced films produced in other Chinese regions to their adopted lands, contributing to the diversity of Chinese-produced movies. In a century of development, the centre of Chinese film has shifted twice. Firstly, it moved from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1949, and then in 2000, it moved from Hong Kong to Beijing. However, the general trend of the diversified development of Chinese movies did not change, thus creating new film movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan and subsequently by the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. CHS253 Chinese Cinema and Culture attempt to highlight the diversity of the Chinese film industry by reviewing Chinese film development in various countries and regions in the past century and investigating their characteristics, co-relationships and influence.