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List of figures.  List of contributors.  Editorial Note.  About Hero.  Acknowledgements.  Foreword - Chris Berry  Introduction - Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley  Part I: Changing Discourse of National Identities and Heroism  1. The Political Narrative(s) of Hero - Gary D. Rawnsley  2. Recycled Heroes, Invented Tradition and Transformed Identity - Yingjie Guo  3. The Emperor and the Assassin: China’s National Hero and the Myth of State Origins - Yiyan Wang  4. The King, the Musician and the Village Idiot: Images of Manhood - Kam Louie  Part II: Transformations of Cultural Perception, Genre and Stardom  5. Twenty-first Century Women Warriors: Variations on a Traditional Theme - Louise Edwards  6. On ‘Tian Xia (All under Heaven)’ in Zhang Yimou’s Hero - Xiaoming Chen and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley  7. Hero: Rewriting the Chinese Martial Arts Film Genre - Haizhou Wang and Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley  8. ‘Would You Rather Spend More Time Making Serious Cinema?’: Hero and Tony Leung’s Polysemic Masculinity - Mark Gallagher  9. Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Transient/Transnational Female Stardom in Hero - Olivia Khoo  Part III: Local vs. Global: Deconstructing Global Chinese Blockbusters  10. Camp Pleasure in an Era of Chinese Blockbusters: Internet Reception of Hero in Mainland China - Sabrina Qiong Yu  11. North American Reception of Zhang Yimou’s Hero - Wendy Larson  12. Heroic Music: From Hunan to Hollywood and Back - Katy Gow  13. Visual Effects Magic: Hero’s Sydney Connection - Mary Farquhar  14.Towards a Global Blockbuster: The Political Economy of Hero’s Nationalism - Anthony Fung and Joseph M. Chan  Filmography. Chinese Glossary: Selected Chinese Names and Terms. Chinese Dynasties at a Glance. Index.