Zhu Ying（朱影）
Professor of Cinema Studies
City University of New York
USA

Storydrive interview: 8 Questions for Zhu Ying

Ying Zhu is a Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Media Culture in the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. A leading expert in Chinese film and media studies, she has published eight books, including 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) initiated the study of Chinese cinema within the framework of political economy. Her second research monograph, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (2008), together with two book volumes in which her work featured prominently—TV China (2009) and TV Drama in China (2008)—pioneered the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish. Her publications further appear in leading academic journals and major media outlets such as The Atlantic, ChinaFile, CNN, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal etc. A recipient of a US National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Zhu has given talks and keynote speeches at leading universities and media institutions around the globe. She 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. She is currently on a US Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to work on a book, The Sino-Hollywood Courtship that parallels Hollywood’s contemporary China expansion and cooptation with the dominance and local resistance of American films in China during China’s Republican era.

Storydrive interview: 8 Questions for Zhu Ying