No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien

Abstract

Hou Hsiao-hsien is arguably the most celebrated Chinese-language film director in the international film festival realm. However, this is not due to an inert cultural tradition so much as to numerous historical/contextual factors – most of all his being from Taiwan -- which together explain the accomplishments of Hou.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1051/thumbnail.jp