The publication of the English version of Imagined China: Research on Chinese Films in the 1980s is supported by the research funds of the Advanced Innovation Center for Future Visual Entertainment at the Beijing Film Academy, the China National Social Science Major Research Project in Arts, "The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Artistic Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films” (grant number: 20ZD18), the China National Social Science Major Research Project, “General History of Film Translation in China” (grant number: 20&ZD313), and the Great Wall Scholar Scheme of Beijing Education Commission (grant number: CIT&TCD20190316).