Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Melodramas of Arrival and Departure: jet-set students in 1970s Taiwanese romance Chapter 2: ABCs, Mixed-race Stars, and other Monsters of Globalization Chapter 3: Setting the Stage: Hong Kong musical stars take on the world Chapter 4: All the Right Moves: mobile heroes and the Shaolin Temple film Chapter 5: The Cosmopolitan Brand: film policy as cultural work in the international film market Chapter 6: Conclusion