Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China

Winner, 2025 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Winner, 2024 Moving Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation

Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Honorable Mention, 2025 Joseph Levenson Prize (post-1900), Association for Asian Studies

How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile film projectioni...