Dr. Ying Zhu

Dr. Ying ZHU is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed academic journal Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images. A leading expert in Chinese film and television, Her research areas encompass Chinese cinema and media, Sino-Hollywood relations, and streaming media and serial narrative. She has published four research monographs including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market (2022), which The China Quarterly calls "a one-stop shop for facts and figures about the Chinese film market, and Hollywood's presence therein--about what happened, where and when;" and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2013), which The New Inquiry calls "An indispensable guide to the Chinese media landscape," and six co-edited books including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds (2019). Her first research monograph, Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (2003) pioneered the industry analysis of Chinese film studios, with the Journal of Asian Studies calling it “a path-breaking book that initiated the institutional study of Chinese cinema.” Her second research monograph, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market together with three co-edited books—TV China (2009), TV Drama in China (2008), and Television Dramas: The US and Chinese Perspectives(2005) pioneered the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. Zhu is a recipient of a US National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Fulbright (China) Senior Research Fellowship. Appeared on NPR etc.

Zhu is a Professor Emeritus of Film and Media at The City University of New York where she served as Department Chair and Director of Modern China program. Zhu also served as a tenured senior professor and Director of Centre for Film and Moving Image Research at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She also teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.

yzhu54@pratt.edu

Sub-specialties:

Chinese film and media industry; Chinese Television; Sino-Hollywood relations; Chinese women