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Since 1984, Chinese cinema has been the most dramatic entry onto the international film scene. China into Film is the first book to look at contemporary Chinese cinema as a visual art and to illustrate the ways in which it has been shaped by centuries of Chinese tradition.

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Now nearly one hundred years old, Indian cinema is one of that country's most vibrant cultural products as well as being the world's most prolific, at its peak producing an estimated 800 films a year. Cinema India is the first book to concentrate on the visual culture of Indian film.

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This beautifully illustrated book provides a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and a picture of the garden's role in social life.

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Taking the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet in 1959 as its starting point, this book offers an interpretation of the ways in which the idea of Tibet has been imagined by Tibetan artists in exile in India and in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.