Prof Ying Zhu
Professor, Academy of Film
Director of Centre for Film and Moving Image Research
Founder & Chief Editor: Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Image

Contact
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- yingzhu@hkbu.edu.hk
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Fields of Expertise
Chinese Film and Television / Hollywood Film / Studio History
About
Education:
Ph.D. (Radio/Television/ Film, University of Texas at Austin)
Area of Interests:
Chinese Film and Television / Hollywood Film / Studio History
Highlights
2019
Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds (Coedited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney, Routledge, 2019)
https://bunews.hkbu.edu.hk/news/knowledge/new-book-by-staff-20-march-2020
Review on The American Interest:
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/03/30/hard-truths-about-chinas-soft-power/?utm-access=mbayles
2015
Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (New York: New Press, Hardcopy in 2013; Paperback in 2014; Spanish Edition in 2015), 291
Review:
http://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/archived-article/?articleID=1565
Achievements
Major National Research Awards (USA)
01/2017-06/2017 | Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (Shanghai) |
01/2008-08/2008 | The American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship |
01-07/2006 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship |
Publications
2019 | Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds (Coedited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney, Routledge, 2019) https://bunews.hkbu.edu.hk/news/knowledge/new-book-by-staff-20-march-2020 Review on The American Interest: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/03/30/hard-truths-about-chinas-soft-power/?utm-access=mbayles |
2015 | Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (New York: New Press, Hardcopy in 2013; Paperback in 2014; Spanish Edition in 2015), 291 Review: |
2011 | Women’s Studies in the West (Lead editor, co-edited with Jieyu Liu & Yachien Huang, Beijing: People’s University Press, 2011; in Chinese), 233 |
2010 | Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (lead editor, co-edited with Stanley Rosen, Hong Kong University Press, 2010), 292 |
2009 | TV China (lead editor, co-edited with Chris Berry; Indiana University Press, 2009), 259 |
2008 | TV drama in China (lead editor, co-edited with Michael Keane and Ruoyun Bai, Hong Kong University Press, 2008), 276 |
Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and Global Television Market (London: Routledge, 2008), 176 | |
2005 | Television Dramas: the US and Chinese Perspectives (co-edited with Chungjing Qu; Shanghai: Shanlian Press, 2005; in Chinese), 569 |
2003 | Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform: the Ingenuity of the System (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 230 |