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. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. She has written for and been reviewed and interviewed in major media outlets including The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, South China Morning Post, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, as well as the BBC, CNN, and NPR.

She reviews manuscripts and evaluates research proposals for major publications and research foundations in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the US, and the UK, and further serves on editorial boards of various publications.

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) ^[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.

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. "HKBU".
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".