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● xi Acknowledgements I am particularly grateful to my editor at Hong Kong University Press, Colin Day, who is a man of remarkable vision and energy with a sincere commitment to Hong Kong film. I also would like to thank the New Hong Kong Cinema Series editors, Stephen Teo, Mette Hjort, Wimal Dissanayake, and Ackbar Abbas for their support of this volume. I called on the good will and sharp eyes of several people while writing this book, and I owe a debt of gratitude to Yau Ka-fai, Amy Lee, Staci Ford, Thomas Podvin, and David Vivier for looking at various stages of the manuscript and offering suggestions. Thomas and David’s enthusiasm forInfernal Affairs and their hard work at Hong Kong CineMagic has been an inspiration. I am also very grateful for Steve Fore’s perceptive comments on the manuscript. Further thanks go to Charles Leary and the folks at Media Asia for help procuring stills, as well as to Phoebe Chan at Hong Kong University Press for her dedication to this project. When I first began to work on Hong Kong cinema, Tony Rayns, Ian Jarvie, Ming Tam, Li Cheuk-To, Norman Wang, Roger Garcia, ● xii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Evans Chan, Allen Fong, Ho Chi-Kuan, Vivian Huang, Peggy Chiao, Yeh Yueh-Yu, and Yang Ming-Yu were incredibly generous with their knowledge and time. I am always inspired by my colleagues in Asian cinema, including Chris Berry, Jenny Lau, Esther Yau, Joelle Collier, Peter Rist, Jyotika Virdi, Kathe Geist, Linda Ehrlich, George Semsel, Tony Williams, Lalitha Gopalan, Priya Jaikumar, Aaron Park, Adam Knee, Sheldon Lu, Anne Ciecko, Suzie Young, Curtis Tsui, Cindy Wong, Peter Hitchcock, Yau Ching, Patricia Erens, Manju Pendakur, Frances Gateward, David Desser, and Tan See-Kam as well as my colleagues in Asian American film, including Peter X Feng, Phebe Chao, Sumiko Higashi, Marina Heung, Katrien Jacobs, Tad Doyle, John Woo, Jeff Yang, and Darrell Hamamoto. I am also grateful for the support of so many people here at the University of Hong Kong, including Staci Ford, Priscilla Roberts, Maureen Sabine, Peter Cunich, Jeremy Tambling, Gordon Slethaug, Karen Joe Laidler and Esther Cheung. Richard Stites and Lance Sung made my time in the Fulbright program particularly worthwhile. I am always inspired by Chuck Kleinhans, Julia Lesage, John Hess, Robert Kolker and Patricia Zimmermann, and I am forever grateful for their friendship. My family is a constant pillar of support, and I could do nothing without Cao Dongqing and Cao Lujia (Luca). In fact, I called upon Dongqing to help with the Chinese film credits and he spent hours on this task. I am forever grateful for his help with this project and for being the love of my life. ...

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