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In the 1950s, the Cold War led China to close its doors to the outside world, and Hong Kong replaced Shanghai as the most important center for Chinese-language film production. Both Singapore and Hong Kong were located outside of Cold War-era China's "Bamboo Curtain," forming a shared identity as "overseas Chinese." At the time, Hong Kong and Singapore/Malaysia were British colonies, creating political and military ties between the two regions. Culturally, the Singapore-Malaysia region was the largest market for Hong Kong films and literary works during that era. Hong Kong films of the Cold War period often portrayed Singapore and Malaysia with a familial closeness, forming a kind of "cultural imagination." This gave rise to a "film culture ring" that connected Hong Kong and Singapore. This book adopts a cultural-historical analytical approach, combined with close readings of film texts, to examine six films produced by the studios MP & GI (Cathay) and Kong Ngee Co., all of which feature Singapore-Malaysia themes. It reconsiders the formation and early signs of rupture in the Hong Kong–Singapore film culture ring, and explores how the subjectivity of Hong Kong cinema was shaped through the gaze of the Other.

在1950年代，冷戰形勢令中國門戶對外關閉，香港取代上海成為最重要的華文電影製作中心。新加坡與香港均位於竹幕中國之外，構築了「海外華人」的共同屬性。香港與星馬當時同為英國殖民地，兩地在政治及軍事體制上形成連帶；在文化上，星馬地區是那個年代香港電影及文藝作品最大的市場，冷戰時代的香港電影往往呈現出對於星馬地區猶如親屬般親密的「文化想像」，一條「電影文化環」就這樣把星港聯繫起來。本書採取文化史分析角度，兼具電影文本細讀，探討電懋（國泰）、光藝兩間片廠所製作的六部星馬題材電影，重新檢視這道星港電影文化環的形成和斷裂的先兆，以及香港電影的主體性如何透過他者的凝視而孵生。

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