Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Beginnings of Cinema in Asia / Nick Deocampo
1. Early Asian Cinema and the Public Sphere / Wimal Dissanayake
2. Nationalism, Contradiction, and Identity: or, A Reconsideration of Early Cinema in the Philippines / Charles Musser
3. Film's Initial Reception in China during Its Period of Infancy / Ritsu Yamamoto
4. Hong Kong's Cinematic Beginnings, 1896-1908 / Wai-ming Law
5. How Cinema Came and Stayed in Taiwan / Daw-ming Lee
6. One Print in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Film Industry and Culture in 1910s Japan / Aaron Gerow
7. Distributing Scandinavia: Nordisk Film in Asia / Nadi Tofighian
8. The Civilizing Cinema Mission: Colonial Beginnings of Film in Indochina / Tilman Baumgartel
9. A National Cinema takes Root in a Colonial Regime: Early Cinema in India / P. K. Nair
10. Colonial Beginnings of Cinema in the Philippines / Nick Deocampo
11. From Shadowplay to the Silver Screen: Early Malay(sian) Cinema / Hassan Abdul Muthalib
12. Iranian Cinema: Before the Revolution / Shahin Parhami
13. Royalty Shapes Early Thai Film Culture / Anchalee Chaiworaporn
14. "I was born but": Some Thoughts on the Origins of Cinema in Asia / Stephen Bottomore
15. Before Moana: Early Cinema of the Pacific / Stephen Bottomore
16. Early Cinema in Central Asia: The Start of an Ascent / Stephen Bottomore
Appendix: Chronology of Film Beginnings in Asia / Nick Deocampo
Selected Bibliography
Index