Ying Zhu
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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,
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Career

A New York-based expert on Chinese film and media industries, Zhu has published nine books, including ''Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds'' (Coedited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney), ''Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television'' (2014) and ''Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema'' (2010). 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. Her second research monograph, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (2008), together with two edited books in which her work featured—TV China (2009) and TV Drama in China (2008)—pioneered the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West. Her latest research monograph
Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market
is forthcoming. 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) and China: From Cartier to Confucius (2012), both screened on the Netherlands Public Television. Zhu is founder and editor in chief o
Global Storytelling
an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media, and technology of the moving image.


Awards

Zhu received a 2006
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Fellowship, a 2008
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Fellowship, and a 2017 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship.


See also

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Cinema of China The cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan. Cinema was introduced in China in 1896 and the first Chinese film, '' Dingjun Mountai ...
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Television in the People's Republic of China The television industry in China includes high-tech program production, transmission and coverage. China Central Television is China's largest and most powerful national television station. By 1987, two-thirds of people in China had access to t ...


References

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