Tan Ye is professor of Comparative Theater in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Director of the Confucius Institute, and Director of the Chinese Program at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Common Dramatic Codes in Yuan and Elizabethan Theaters (1997), Theory and Practice of Screenwriting in China and America (co-editedwith Li Jin, 2008), and Historical Dictionary of Chinese Theater (2009).Yun Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, with a focus on Chinese literature from the late Qing to the contemporary period and Chinese-language film.

• Editor’s Foreword (Jon Woronoff)Reader’s NoteAcronyms and AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYGlossaryBibliographyAbout the Authors

Chinese cinema has an illustrious history. This historical dictionary of Chinese cinema strives to give the reader a grasp of that history. This valuable reference work opens with a chronology beginning in 1895 with the country's first public screening and concluding with the opening of a new complex in Tianjin that serves as a co-production site with U.S. filmmakers....A superb, well-written, interesting book. The scholar as well as the casual reader will certainly learn a great deal about one of the foundations of eastern culture.