CHINESE MOVIE MAGAZINES

Organized thematically within a chronological structure, this book includes more than 500 full-colour covers - many of them rare - f rom the Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection in Berkeley's C. V. Starr East Asian Library, the largest collection of Eastern movie memora bilia outside China. Fonoroff's text relates the magazines to the times in which they were created, embracing everything from cinema tic trends to politics and world events without neglecting gossip, fashion and pop culture. The result is a survey of the era's movi e public...[Read more]