Abstract: Abstract： The Western perspective of the global film noir theories is problematic since the final research results fall into the Western centralism， though more concealed. More seriously，if we blindly copy this global noir theory to study non-Western noir， including a large number of contemporary Chinese film noir in recent years， there will be huge bias. This reminds us that while researching contemporary local noir，we must consider many intertwining factors， such as global mobility， East Asian geocultural markets and China’s native reality，so that we can conduct feasible and effective study.The complex context of contemporary Chinese local noir research also provides an important reference to the study of other local genres. In today’s era when globalization is interwoven with Localization， more factors need to be taken into account in the study of local genres. It is increasingly likely to lead to fallacies if we study contemporary Chinese films only with one given Western theory.

Key words: global film noir theory, western perspective, contemporary Chinese film noir ,