Chunka Den'ei (sic)

[Abe' Mark Nornes]

The new Cinema Journal has an article on Chuka Den'ei (spelled "Chunka" in
the footnotes).

Fu, Poshek. "The Ambiguity of Entertainment: Chinese Cinema in
Japanese-Occupied Shanghai, 1941-1945," Cinema Journal 37. 1 (Fall 1997):
66-84.

This is an institutional history of the consolidation of Shanghai
production companies under the administration of Kawakita Nagamasa during
the Japanese occuptation. It should be useful to anyone who needs an
English-language description of what was going on at the time. Focussing
mostly on the personalities behind the scenes, Fu has little to say about
the films being produced and even less to say about the contemporary
rhetoric surrounding them. This may be related to (determined by) the
sources he uses, which are primarily postwar histories from the 80s and
90s. For example, even though there is a very substantial literature on
this readily available in Japanese magazines and books of the time, the
Japanese sources (which he relies on heavily) are Tsuji Hisakazu's _Chuka
Den'ei Shiwa_ and Shimizu Akira's _ Shanhai Sokai Eiga Watakushishi_.