Asian cinema: a field guide

I: the old guard

China: tradition and resistance

Japan: cinema of extremes

India: all that and then some

II: Postwar booms

Hong Kong: the fine art of popular cinema

Korea: rising from the ashes of history

III: Recent arrivals

Iran: a continuing conversation

Taiwan: the little island that could

IV: New players

South and Southeast Asia: coming into focus

Central Asia and the Middle East: global intersections

V: Where to go from here.