Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness

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It has been over two decades since the project made its debut and since then many new works on the film, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Taiwanese cinema have been published. The list below is a partial update to the growing field of Taiwanese cinema and not to be taken as a definitive record.

• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983).
• Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogical Imagination (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).
• Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Trans. R. W. Rotsel (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1973).
• Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. Trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1981).
• Berry, Chris, ed. “China’s New ‘Women’s Cinema.’” Camera Obscura 18 (1988): 8–19.
• Berry, Chris. Perspectives on Chinese Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
• Berry, Michael. “Words and Images: A Conversation with Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chu Tien-wen.” Positions—East Asia Cultures Critiques 11.3 (2003): 675–716. Also in Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers, ed. Michael Berry, 234–71 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
• Bhabha, Homi J. Nation and Narration (New York: Routledge University Press, 1990).
• Bordwell, David. “Hou, or Constraints.” In Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging, 186–237 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).
• Bordwell, David. Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988); electronic version (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2007), https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/facultyseries/list/series/ozu.php.
• Bordwell, David. “Watch Again! Look Well! Look! (For Ozu).” Observations on Film Art (12 December 2013). http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2013/12/12/watch-again-look-well-look-for-ozu/.
• Brown, Georgia. “Island in the Mainstream.” Village Voice (26 April 1989): 66.
• Browne, Nick. “Hou Hsiao Hsien’s The Puppetmaster: The Poetics of Landscape.” In Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After, ed. Chris Berry and Feii Lu, 79–88 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005).
• Burnett, Colin. “Parametric Narration and Optical Transition Devices: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Robert Bresson in Comparison.” Senses of Cinema 33 (2004). http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/feature-articles/hou_hsiao_hsien_bresson/.
• Burton, Julianne. “Marginal Cinemas and Mainstream Critical Theory.” Screen 13.3 (1985): 3–21.
• Canby, Vincent. “Why Some Movies Don’t Travel Well.” New York Times (23 October 1988): E1.
• Chai, Lingling. “Dianying, lishi rentong yu renming jiyi” [Cinema, historical identification and popular memory], Zili Zaobao [Independent Morning Post] (27 December 1989): 14.
• Chang, Jinn-pei. Ning wang shi dai: chuanyue Beiqing chengshi ershi nian [Looking Back through the film A City of Sadness] (Taipei: Tianyuan chengshi, 2011).
• Chen, Fangming. Er’er’ba shijian xueshu lunwenji [Collected research works on the February 28 Incident] (Taipei: Qianwei, 1989).
• Chen, Kuan-hsing, Paul Willemen, and Ti Wei, eds. “Hou Hsiao-hsien Special Issue.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9.2 (June 2008).
• Chen, Qinan. Jiazhu yu shehuei [Clan and society] (Taipei: Linking, 1990).
• Chen, Yenyu. The February 28 Incident: Collected Works by Concerned Scholars (Taipei: Council on Formosan Studies, 1992).
• Cheng, Jihua, Li Shaobai, and Xing Zuwen. Zhongguo dianying fazhanshi [A history of the development of Chinese cinema], 2 vols. (Beijing: China Film Press, 1980).
• Chi, Robert. “Getting It on Film: Representing and Understanding History in A City of Sadness.” Tamkang Review 29.4 (Summer 1999): 47–84.
• Chiao, Hsiung-ping. “Cinema: Autobiographical Masterpiece.” Free China Review 38.2 (February 1988): 33–35.
• Chiao, Hsiung-ping. “Cinema: Contrasting Images.” Free China Review 38.2 (February 1988): 12–19.
• Chiao, Hsiung-ping. “Cinema: Satire with Elegant Sensitivity.” Free China Review 38.2 (February 1988): 36–39.
• Chiao, Hsiung-ping. “Cinema: Struggles between Commercialism and Art.” Free China Review 38.2 (February 1988): 20–25.
• Chiao, Hsiung-ping. “A Summer at Grandpa’s—Fields/Days of Infancy/Parent-Child Relationships.” Wave (Tokyo) 21 (January 1989): 84–86.
• Chiao, Hsiung-ping. Taiwan xindianying [The Taiwan New Cinema] (Taipei: Shibao, 1988).
• Chiao, Hsiung-ping. Xianggang dianying fengmao [Features of Hong Kong Cinema] (Taipei: Shibao, 1987).
• Chow, Rey. “Silent Is the Ancient Plain: Music, Filmmaking, and the Conception of Reform in China’s New Cinema.” Discourse 12.2 (1990): 82–90.
• Chow, Rey. Women and Chinese Modernity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990).
• Chua, Lawrence. “Who’s Hou?” Women’s Wear Daily (7 September 1989).
• Clark, Paul. Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
• Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).
• Cooke, David. “A Review of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness.” Public Culture 5 (1993): 354–57.
• Daly, Fergus. “On Four Prosaic Formulas Which Might Summarize Hou’s Poetics.” Senses of Cinema 12 (2001). http://sensesofcinema.com/2001/12/hou/#filmo.
• Davis, Darrell William. “Borrowing Postcolonial: Wu Nien-chen’s Dou-san and the Memory Mine.” Post Script 20.2–3 (Winter–Spring 2001): 94–114. Also in Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics, ed. Sheldon H. Lu and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, chap. 11 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).
• Davis, Darrell William. “A New Taiwan Person? Questions for Wu Nien-chen.” positions: east asia cultures critique 11.3 (Winter 2003): 717–34.
• Den-ei shin seki The Filmmaker of the ’90s Hou Hsiao-hsien (Tokyo: Pia, 1989).
• Doane, Mary Ann. The Dialogical Text: Filmic Irony and the Spectator (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Microfilms International, 1979).
• Doane, Mary Ann, Patricia Mellencamp, and Linda Williams, eds. Re-Vision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984).
• Dominic, Mart, and Peter Delpeut. “A Man Must Be Greater Than His Films.” Screen (Holland) (January 1989). Reprinted in Japanese in Den-ei shin seki The Filmmaker of the ’90s Hou Hsiao-hsien, 12–16 (Tokyo: Pia, 1989).
• Du, Yunzhi. Zhongguo dianying shi [A history of Chinese cinema]. 3 vols. (Taipei: Shangwuyin, 1972).
• Flant, Antony, and David Vasse, eds. Le cinéma de Hou Hsiao-hsien: Escapes, temps, sons (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013).
• Frodon, Jean-Michel, ed. Hou Hsiao-hsien (Lonrai: Editions Cahiers du cinema, 1999).
• Gabriel, Teshome. “Colonialism and ‘Law and Order’ Criticism.” Screen 27.3–4 (1986): 140–47.
• Gabriel, Teshome. Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982).
• Guest, Haden. “Reflections on the Screen: Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Dust in the Wind and the Rhythms of the Taiwan New Cinema.” In Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After, ed. Chris Berry and Feii Lu, 27–38 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005).
• Haddon, Rosemary. “Hou Hsiao Hsien’s City of Sadness: History and the Dialogic Female Voice.” In Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After, ed. Chris Berry and Feii Lu, 55–66 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005).
• Hasumi, Shigehiko. “Gamen o tsukuru no wa, kekkyoku, chokkan da to omou” [I Think Making a Scene Is, in the Final Instance, Intuition]. Lumiere (Tokyo) 9 (Fall 1989): 87–94.
• Hasumi, Shigehiko. Kantoku Ozu Yasujiro [Director Ozu Yasujiro] (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1983).
• Higson, Andrew. “The Concept of National Cinema.” Screen 30.4 (1989): 36–47.
• Hijojoshi [City of Sadness], Chanter Cine 2.14 (Tokyo: France Eigasha, 1990).
• Hillenbrand, Margaret. “Trauma and the Politics of Identity: Form and Function in Fictional Narratives of the February 28th Incident.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 17.2 (Fall 2005): 49–89.
• Historical Research Commission of Taiwan. The Historiographical Records on the Taiwan Event of February 28, 1947 (Tai-chung, Taiwan: Historical Research Commission Council of Taiwan Province, 1990).
• Hobermann, J. “Hou Hsiao-hsien: The Edge of the World.” In Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media, 104–7 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991).
• Huang, Edwin. “Cinema: Urban Anxieties.” Free China Review 38.2 (February 1988): 30–32.
• Hung, Christine Yu-ting. A Nation of Sadness? A Study of History, Culture, and Gender in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Film A City of Sadness (Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013).
• Institute of Modern History. Oral History 3: Special Issue on the February 28 Incident (Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 1992).
• Institute of Modern History. The 228 Incident: A Documentary Collection. Vol. 1 (Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 1992).
• James, Caryn. “Postwar ‘Sadness’ in Taiwan.” New York Times (6 October 1989): C13.
• Johnson, Claire. Notes on Women’s Cinema (London: Society for Education in Film and Television, 1975).
• Kaldis, Nick. “Compulsory Orientalism: Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Flowers of Shanghai.” In Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After, ed. Chris Berry and Feii Lu, 127–36 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005).
• Kaplan, E. Ann. “Problematizing Cross-Cultural Analysis: The Case of Women in the Recent Chinese Cinema.” Wide Angle 11.2 (1989): 40–50.
• Kasman, Daniel. “Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Urban Female Youth Trilogy.” Senses of Cinema 39 (May 2006). http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/39/hou_urban_female_youth/.
• Kauffmann, Stanley. “Elsewhere.” New Republic 202.24 (11 June 1990): 26.
• Kehr, David. “Director Makes Ordinary Life Extraordinary.” Chicago Tribune (from Toronto Film Festival catalog, September 1989).
• Kerr, George. Formosa Betrayed (New York: De Capo Press, 1976).
• Kerr, George. The Taiwan Confrontation Crisis (Berkeley, CA: Formosan Association for Public Affairs, 1986).
• Kinder, Marsha. “The Subversive Potential of the Pseudo-Iterative.” Film Quarterly 43.2 (1989–90): 2–16.
• Kristeva, Julia. The Kristeva Reader. Trans. Toril Moi (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
• Lai Tse-han, Ramon H. Myers, and Wei Wou. A Tragic Beginning: Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991).
• Lamley, Harry, J. “Book review, A Tragic Beginning: Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947.” Journal of Asian Studies 51.3 (1992): 652–54.
• Leyda, Jay. Dianying: An Account of Films and the Film Audience in China (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972).
• Li, Shangren. “Taiwan xindianying yu disandianying: yie changshiwing de bijiao” [The Taiwan New Cinema and Third Cinema: A tentative comparison] Dianying xinshang [Film Appreciation Journal] 5.2 (1987): 23–26.
• Li, Tuo. “Narratives of History in the Cinematography of Hou Xiaoxian.” positions 1.3 (Winter 1993): 805–15.
• Li, Yongwei, and Xiaofen Peng. “Taiwan ‘Xindianying’ shiqi wei gongzouahe fangwenlu” [An interview with seventeen filmmakers in the Taiwan New Cinema movement] Dianying xinshang [Film Appreciation Journal] 5.2 (1987): 5–16.
• Li, Youxin. “Gangtai liuda daoyian” [Six great directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan], Zili Zaoba [Independent Morning Post (Taipei)], 1986.
• Liao, Ping-hui. “Lishi de yangqi?—zailun Beiqing chengshi” [Leaving history behind?—Rethinking A City of Sadness], Zili Zaoba [Independent Morning Post (Taipei)], (27 February 1991): 14.
• Liao, Ping-hui. “Passing and Re-articulation of Identity: Memory, Trauma, and Cinema.” Tamkang Review 29.4 (Summer 1999): 85–114.
• Liao, Ping-hui. “Rewriting Taiwanese National History: The February 28 Incident as Spectacle.” Public Culture 5 (1993): 281–96.
• Lin, Sylvia Li-chun. “Screening Atrocity.” In Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film, 128–53 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
• Lin, Wen-chi, Shiao-ying Shen and Jerome Li. Xilian rensheng: Hou Hsiao-hsien dianying yanjiu [Passionate detachment: Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien] (Taipei: Rye Field Publishing, 2000).
• Liu, Senyiao. “Cong Fenggui lai de ren kan dianying de xieshi zhuyi” [The Boys from Fenggui and realism], Shijie Dianying [World Cinema Journal] 132 (1983): 50–54.
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• Lu, Tong-lin. “From a Voiceless Father to a Father’s Voice: Hou Xiaoxian, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, A City of Sadness, The Puppetmaster.” In Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China, 95–115 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
• Lupke, Christopher. “Chu T’ien-wen and the Sotto Voce of Gendered Expression in the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien.” In Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts, ed. Lingzhen Wang, 274–92 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
• Lupke, Christopher. “The Muted Interstices of Testimony: A City of Sadness and the Predicament of Multiculturalism in Taiwan.” Asian Cinema 15.1 (Spring 2004): 5–36.
• Ma, Jean. “Time without Measure, Sadness without Cure.” In Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema, 19–49 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010).
• Ma, Ning. “Symbolic Representation and Symbolic Violence: Chinese Family Melodrama of the Early 1980s.” East-West Film Journal 4.1 (1989): 79–112.
• Ma, Ning. “The Textual and Critical Difference of Being Radical: Reconstructing Chinese Leftist Films of the 1930s.” Wide Angle 11.2 (1989): 22–31.
• Marchetti, Gina. “The Blossoming of a Revolutionary Aesthetics: Xie Jin’s Two Stage Sisters.” Jump Cut 34 (1989): 95–106.
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• Mi Zou, and Xinhua Liang, eds. Xingdianying zhe ze [The death of the New Cinema] (Taipei: Tangshang, 1991).
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• Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In Visual and Other Pleasures, 14–28 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
• Ng, Yvonne. “Essence and Ellipsis in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster.” Kinema (Spring 1999). http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/article.php?id=213&feature.
• Noh, David. “Taiwanese Director’s Sadness Recalls Island’s Turbulent Past.” Film Journal International (New York) 93.2 (February 1990): 28.
• Nornes, Abé Mark. “Hou Hsiao-hsien and Narrative Space.” In Hou Hsiao-hsien, ed. Richard Suchenski, 154–68. (Vienna: Österreichisches Filmmuseum; and New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).
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• Pines, Jim, and Paul Willemen. Questions of Third Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 1989).
• Qi, Longren. “Cinema: Critiquing the Critics.” Free China Review 38.2 (February 1988): 26–29.
• Rawnsley, Ming-yeh. T. “Cinema, Historiography, and Identities in Taiwan: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness.” Asian Cinema 22.2 (2011): 196–213.
• Rayns, Tony. “Beiqing chengshi” [A City of Sadness]. Monthly Film Bulletin 57 (June 1990): 152–54.
• Rayns, Tony. “Hou Hsiao-hsien: Songs for Swinging Lovers.” Sight and Sound 16.8 (August 2006): 14, 16–19.
• Rayns, Tony. “The Position of Women in New Chinese Cinema.” East-West Film Journal 1.2 (1987): 32–44.
• Rayns, Tony. “The Sandwich Man: Between Taiwan and the Mainland, between the Real and the Surreal: Tony Rayns Talks to Hou Xiaoxian.” Monthly Film Bulletin 55 (June 1988): 163–64.
• Rayns, Tony. “Tongnian Wangshi” [A Time to Live and a Time to Die]. Monthly Film Bulletin 55 (June 1988): 161–63.
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• Semsel, George. Chinese Film Theory: A Guide to the New Era (New York: Praeger, 1990).
• Shen, Shiao-ying. “Permutations of the Foreign/er: A Study of the Works of Edward Yang, Stan Lai, Chang Yi, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien.” (PhD diss., National Central University Film Studies Center, 1995).
• Silverman, Kaja. The Acoustic Mirror (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988).
• Sklar, Robert. “Hidden History, Modern Hedonism: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien.” Cineaste 27.4 (Fall 2002): 11.
• Stacey, Judith. Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
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• Tam, Kwok-kan, and Wimal Dissanayake. “Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Critical Encounters with Memory and History.” In New Chinese Cinema, ed. Tam Kwok-kan and Wimal Dissanayake, 46–59 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998).
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• Wan, Xuting. “Liti de dianying—Beiqing chengshi de kongjian yu xushi” [A film that fails to cover its subject—the space and narrative of City of Sadness], Zili Zaobau [Independent Morning Post (Taipei)], (8 December 1989): 14.
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• Wu, Zhenghuan. “Hou Hsiao-hsien dianying de liangge shijie” [The two worlds of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s film], Dianying xinshang [Film Appreciation Journal] 5.2 (1987): 6–21.
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