In cinema approaching reality victor fan brings together for the first time chinese and euro american film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in shanghai and hong kong from the 1920s through 1940shis point of departure is a term popularly employed by chinese film critics during this period bizhen often translated as lifelike but best understood as . Book description incinema approaching realityvictor fan brings together for the first time chinese and euro american film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in shanghai and hong kong from the 1920s through 1940shis point of departure is a term popularly employed by chinese film critics during this periodbizhen often translated as lifelike but best . In cinema approaching reality victor fan brings together for the first time chinese and euro american film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in shanghai and hong kong from the 1920s through the 1940s his point of departure is a term popularly employed by chinese film critics during this period bizhen often translated as lifelike but best understood as . In cinema approaching reality victor fan brings together for the first time chinese and euro american film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in shanghai and hong kong from the 1920s through the 1940sthe result is an eye opening exploration of the potentialities in approaching cinema anew especially in the photographic materiality following its digital turn