Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Films: Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship

This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under party-state regulation from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Qi Ai is a Lecturer in the School of Journalism and Communication at Shandong Normal University in China. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Shandong University and the visiting scholar at University of Nottingham Ningbo. He holds a Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.