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Rethinking Transnationalism -- Hokkien Heritage -- Euphoria Of The Transnational -- Locating Amoy-dialect Films -- Contextualizing Amoy-dialect Cinema -- Studying Xiayupian -- Defining Amoy-dialect Cinema -- Third Chinese Cinema -- What Makes A Film A Xiayupian? -- When Is An Amoy-dialect Film Not An Amoy-dialect Film? -- Beyond The Screen -- Origins And Development -- Postwar Hokkien World -- Philippine Financing -- Amoy-dialect Film Family -- Shaping Of A Cinema -- Popular Tales Of Ancient Days -- Politics Of Amoy-dialect Cinema -- Lychees And Mirrors -- Chinese Classics And Taiwanese Stories -- Malayan Amoy-dialect Realism -- New Amoy-dialect Films -- Reinventing The Industry -- Eng Wah, Kong Ngee And Shaws -- New Amoy-dialect Films -- Hong Kong Is Heaven -- Modern Hokkien Songs -- Suipian Dengtai -- Cold-war Industry -- Xiayupian And The Nationalist State -- Fraught Relationship -- Monopoly On Hokkien Cinema -- Amoy-dialect Patriotism -- Cinema For Non-communist China -- End Of Amoy-dialect Cinema -- 1963, A Year Of Some Significance -- Decline In Production -- Death Of An Industry -- Housewives' Matinées -- Impossibility Of Xiayupian -- Conclusion. Jeremy E. Taylor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.