Ying Zhu

Ying Zhu is the founder and chief editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is the author of four books including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (both from The New Press) and co-editor of six books including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds. Previously on the faculty at the City University of New York, she is now a professor in the Academy of Film at the Hong Kong Baptist University and an adjunct professor in the School of Arts at the Columbia University.

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Read an excerpt from Ying Zhu’s Hollywood in China in Lit Hub about Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's fourth wife, and her influence on mid-century Chinese film.

Books by Ying Zhu

Hollywood in China
Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market

Ying Zhu

Two Billion Eyes
The Story of China Central Television

Ying Zhu