Introduction -- Cultural policy as negotiation of power: the Chinese state's role and strategies in its tug-of-war with global Hollywood -- The debate about Hollywood -- The film industry as negotiation of space -- Artistic and critical cinema under a triple threat: marketization, Hollywoodization, and state censorship -- Chinese martial arts cinema in the twenty-first century: hybridity and soft power -- Conclusion: the Chinese state, Hollywood, and postsocialist modernity.