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.
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", and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television, and six co-edited books including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds, with a foreword by Joseph Nye. Her first research monograph was Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System. 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, TV Drama in China, and Television Dramas: The US and Chinese Perspectives addressed the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West.Zhu has produced current affairs documentary films, including Google vs. China and China: From Cartier to Confucius, both screened on the Netherlands Public Television.
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.