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Ying Zhu is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York and Director of the Center for Film and Moving Image Research in the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. [1] Zhu is the Founder and Chief Editor of Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images

Career

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A leading scholar in film and media, Ying Zhu’s research areas encompass Chinese cinema and media, Sino-Hollywood relations, and TV dramas. Zhu has published ten books, including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market[2][3] (2022), Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds (Coedited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney),[4][5] Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2014)[6][7][8] and Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (2010).[9]

Her first research monograph, Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (2003) pioneered the study on history of Chinese film studios.[10][11][12] Her second research monograph, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (2008),[13][14][15] together with two edited books in which her work featured—TV China (2009)[16] and TV Drama in China (2008)—pioneered the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West.[17] Her latest research monograph, Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market explores how movies have become one of the biggest areas of competition between the world’s two remaining superpowers.

Zhu reviews manuscripts for major publications and evaluates grant proposals for research foundations in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S. Zhu also produces current affairs documentary films, including Google vs. China (2011)[18] and China: From Cartier to Confucius (2012), both screened on the Netherlands Public Television.[19]

Zhu is founder and editor in chief of Global Storytelling an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media, and technology of the moving image.

Awards

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Zhu received a 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a 2008 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a 2017 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship.[20]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "HKBU".
  2. ^ Kokas, Aynne. "Transpacific Connections and Competitions: On Ying Zhu's "Hollywood in China" and Daryl Joji Maeda's "Like Water"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  3. ^ Zhu, Ying (2022). Hollywood in China : behind the scenes of the world's largest movie market. New York. ISBN 978-1-62097-219-9. OCLC 1312160876.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Zhu, Ying (2020). Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds (co-edited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney). Routledge.
  5. ^ "Hard Truths About China's "Soft Power"". 30 March 2020.
  6. ^ Zhu, Ying (2012). Two Billion Eyes. New York: The New Press.
  7. ^ "New Press announcement of Two Billion Eyes" (PDF).
  8. ^ Zhu, Ying (2012). Two Billion Eyes, on amazon.com. New Press. ISBN 978-1595584649.
  9. ^ Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (co-edited with Stanley Rosen ), Hong Kong University Press, 2010, 292, on amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Art-Politics-Commerce-Chinese-Cinema/dp/962209175X
  10. ^ Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform: the Ingenuity of the System, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, 230.
  11. ^ Zhu, Ying; Zhu, Associate Professor Ying (2003). Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform, on amazon.com. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0275979591.
  12. ^ Review in The Journal of Asian Studies available at http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/mediaculture/assets/review%20of%20my%20book.doc
  13. ^ Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market, London: Routledge, 2008, 176
  14. ^ Zhu, Ying (19 February 2009). Television in Post Reform China, on amazon.com. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415492201.
  15. ^ Review in the Chinese Journal of Communications, available at http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/mediaculture/assets/review%20of%20my%20book%20xu.doc
  16. ^ TV China (co-edited with Chris Berry Chris Berry), Indiana University Press, 2009, 259
  17. ^ Television Dramas: the US and Chinese Perspectives (co-edited with Chungjing Qu), Shanghai: Shanlian, 2005, 569.
  18. ^ "Google versus China", Co-Producer, researcher, and interviewer, a 50 minute documentary for VPRO, the Netherlands National Television’s Backlight Program, first aired April 18, 2011 http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/2010-2011/ongekend-china/google-versus-china.html
  19. ^ "Netherlands Public Television Screening".
  20. ^ "CSI Professors".
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