The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

analysis his life time works and how his works developed over the years. Please be specific on mise-en-scene, scene, story, and sound. And please analysis scenes from the films. Films recommended using as examples:
The Assassin (2015)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

Potential sources:
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary – June Yip
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema – The Wuxia Tradition Teo, Stephen
China on Screen Cinema and Nation Chris, Berry Mary Farquhar
Taiwan Cinema A Contested Nation on Screen Guo-Juin. Hong
New Taiwanese cinema in focus : moving within and beyond the frame Flannery Wilson
Hou Hsiao-hsien – Richard Suchenski
The Assassin http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wcttj (radio)