Ying Zhu

Ying Zhu

Ying Zhu is a professor in the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University and a professor emeritus at the City University of New York. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

Zhu's 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", ^[3] and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2014), ^[4] and six co-edited books including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds (Coedited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney), ^[5] with a foreword by Joseph Nye. Her first research monograph was Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (2003). ^{[6] [7]} Her second research monograph, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (2008), ^{[8] [9]} together with three co-edited books—TV China (2009), TV Drama in China (2008), and Television Dramas: The US and Chinese Perspectives(2005) addressed the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West.

Zhu has produced current affairs documentary films, including Google vs. China (2011) ^[10] and China: From Cartier to Confucius (2012), both screened on the Netherlands Public Television. ^[11]

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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Awards

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. ^[12]

See also

• Cinema of China
• Television in the People's Republic of China

References

1. "Prof. Ying ZHU". Hong Kong Baptist University . Retrieved 18 January 2026.
2. "Ying Zhu". Columbia University . Retrieved 5 December 2025.
3. Zhu, Ying (2022). Hollywood in China : behind the scenes of the world's largest movie market. New York: The New Press. ISBN   978-1-62097-219-9. OCLC   1312160876.
4. Zhu, Ying (2012). Two Billion Eyes. New York: The New Press.
5. Zhu, Ying (2020). Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds (co-edited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney). Routledge.
6. Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform: the Ingenuity of the System, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, 230.
7. Zhu, Ying; Zhu, Associate Professor Ying (2003). Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform, on amazon.com. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-0275979591.
8. Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market, London: Routledge, 2008, 176
9. Zhu, Ying (19 February 2009). Television in Post Reform China, on amazon.com. Routledge. ISBN   978-0415492201.
10. "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
11. "Netherlands Public Television Screening".
12. "CSI Professors".