Analytical essays of 25 classic Chinese films from the last century, written by notable film critics. Romance of the West Chamber, Love and Duty, Big Road, The Goddess, Eight Hundred Heroes, Spring River Flows East, Sorrows of the Forbidden City, Spring in a Small Town, Tears of the Pearl River, Cold Nights, Song of Youth, Laugh Clown Laugh, The Beauty of Beauties, Stage Sisters, Story of a Discharged Prisoner, The Arch, A Touch of Zen, The Butterfly Murders, Boat People, Yellow Earth, Taipei Story, The Time to Live and the Time to Die, Red Sorghum, Days of Being Wild, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Hong Kong Film Critics Society, 2001, 56 p, bilingual in Chinese and English. ISBN 962-8050-11-7