Review of Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market by Ying Zhu, The New Press, 2022

Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market is one of the newest additions to the Sino-Hollywood film industry corpus and their entanglements, conflicts, cooperation, and controversies over the past century.Zhu examines the vicissitudes of the two largest film industries in the world by chronicling their histories against prominent global political and cultural changes, from early Republican-era China to the (post-)COVID-19 era.Through archival research, case studies of popular films and film companies, and interviews with media practitioners, Zhu unveils the dynamic relationship between China and US film industries and its ramifications to the global political and cultural hierarchy.In 2012, many trade journals predicted that China would surpass the United States and become the world's largest film market by 2020.These predictions came to pass, but only amid the pandemic in 2020, when most of the world's cinemas were under serious restrictions.Since the early 2000s, increasing numbers of scholars 1 have shed light on the marketization and