Ran Ma is an associate professor at the 'Japan-in-Asia' Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan. She has contributed chapters to Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation (2017) and the upcoming anthology The Japanese Cinema Book.

• Introduction: Beyond the Homeland and Diaspora Chapter One. Art of the Dissensual-Independent Border-Crossing Cinema in Asia Chapter Two. A Landscape Over There: Rethinking Translocality in Zhang Lu's Border-Crossing Films Chapter Three. Fading Hometown and Lost Paradise--Kuzoku's Politics of (Dis)location Chapter Four. Li Ying's Films of Displacement: Towards an Im/Possible Chinese-in-Japan Cinema Chapter Five. Okinawan Dream Show: Approaching Okinawa in Moving Image Works into the New Millennium Chapter Six. Homecoming Myanmar: Midi Z (Zhao Deyin)'s Migration Machine and a Cinema of Precarity Postscript: The Promise of Subversive Art, Index.