"An ambitious, timely, and erudite treatment—the first of its kind in English, and the first unbiased one in any language—of a major corpus of Sinophone films, usually referred to as Ethnic Minorities Cinema."— Yomi Braester, University of Washington, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Chinese Cinemas
"Lo successfully historicizes shifting strategies throughout China’s history of ethnic-themed films to constitute a unified Chinese identity. This book includes a wealth of information on ethnic minority films and is a bold intervention in the fields of Chinese Cinema Studies, Chinese Studies, and Chinese Ethnic Minority Studies."— Robin Visser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill