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Cai Wei is an author about whom limited public information is available, whose work centers on film theory and the art of cinema. Judging from the three titles held in the collection, his interests span film concepts, the art of Asian film directors, and American film history: he took part in theoretical writing such as Film Art Concepts, offered close readings of contemporary Asian directors' work in The Poet Who Sculpts Time: Close Readings of Contemporary Asian Film Directors' Art (Light and Shadow Series), and contributed to a survey of American film history in The Art History of American Cinema. Overall, his writing combines an academic concern with theory and close textual analysis, linking film theory, film criticism, and national cinema history. Since his dates, nationality, and specific biography cannot be confirmed, inferences about his life should be avoided; readers may come to know his scholarly interests and writing orientation mainly through the works mentioned above.