Going to share my research at Umichigan tomorrow noon(Tuesday March 24), welcome to attend in person or via zoom: “Transnational Feminist Mediation: The Other Half of the Sky (1975) and US-China People’s Diplomacy”
Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, SUNY: ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-e...
Sharing a chapter draft from a book I am writing this Saturday morning at Université Paris-Nanterre.
The chapter is on the documentary “The Other Half of Sky: A China Memoir” (Shirley MacLaine & Claudia Weill, 1975), 1970s American women documentary and second-wave feminism.
Thanks Prof. Winder W.T. Chang for organizing such a fascinating workshop on January 15, 2026 at IIAS Leiden. I will discuss "Silver Needle and the Silver Screen: Acupuncture Anaesthesia in 1950s-1970s Cinema" (my grandfather was a great TCM practitioner): www.iias.asia/events/persp...
Thank you Joshua and Pietro! Look forward to reading this fantastic issue!
Dear friends and colleague in London: I am giving a talk titled "Specter of Acoustic Internationalism: 'Voice of Malayan Revolution' in China, 1969-1981" at SOAS on November 11th (Tuesday) 5:15-7:00p.m, welcome to register and attend, and share your comments! Thanks!: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Dear friends and colleagues in Hong Kong, welcome to attend the book launch event (Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media) at UChicago Hong Kong Center on Friday, November 7, 2025. You can find more details and register in the weblink:
uchicago.hk/event/book-l...
Thanks for publishing this piece! Writing this essay was an inspiring political journey! Thanks Matt, the editors, and all my progressive Canadian friends!
Visited a unique museum: the Paris Sewer Museum (Musée des égouts de Paris); so many themes converged beneath the city’s polished surface: labor, infrastructure, waste, hygiene, smell, and resistance...This also reminded me of Polish filmmaker AndrzejVajda’s film Kanal (1957).
Friends and colleagues in Paris, welcome to my presentation, "The Kite, the Wind, and the Monkey King: Sino-French Cinematic Journeys, 1950s–1980s," at Maison Suger, October 9th (Thursday), 7-8p.m., look forward to your questions and suggestions: fmsh.fr/en/events/kite…
Hybrid book launch event, Dutch time Thursday (09/25) 3:00p.m., Eastern time 9:00a.m., Beijing time 9:00p.m. Look forward to a productive discussion with colleagues. Welcome to register and participate: Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media: www.iias.asia/events/socia...
Thanks Matt for editing the special issue, my article, "Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune (Zhang Junxiang, 1965)," is available for free download, look forward to your critique: www.academia.edu/129826352/DR...
Thanks Matt Croomb for editing this special issue, I contributed an article, “Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune”: utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...
Look forward to attending the conference remotely tomorrow:
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Tuesday 27 May 2025 10.00am to 4.00pm
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre:
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
Tomorrow evening in The Hague, welcome colleagues nearby.
Presenting a book chapter, entitled "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War" at IIAS Leiden and online tomorrow afternoon 2:00p.m.(EST 8a.m.), welcome friends and colleagues to join: www.iias.asia/events/fire-...
Dear friends and colleagues, welcome to register to join my talk at IIAS in Leiden, the Netherlands and online on April 17th: "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War": www.iias.asia/events/fire-...
Tsinghua Professor Yan Hairong's talk, "Chinese Capital Accumulation and the Belt and Road Initiative," at Iias Leiden this Friday (03/07) at 2:00p.m., welcome friends in Leiden and Amsterdam to attend and share with friends and colleagues: www.iias.asia/events/chine...
With permission from co-editors, I have uploaded our introduction to Socializing Medicine online for free access. Look forward to your thoughts--many of the issues we raise regarding medicine, health injustice, and audiovisual media remain highly relevant. Thanks!: www.academia.edu/127485109/_I...
Revolutionary books bought in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
After 4 years of collaborative efforts, our edited volume, Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, has been published by HKUP. Colleagues in North America can order through UCP website. Thanks for your support, look forward to your feedback: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Inspiring books I read in 2024:My Childhood; New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China; The Right to Be Lazy; Labor and Monopoly Capital; Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China’s Workers; Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema…
The ten most inspiring films I watched in 2024: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat; Ni chaînes ni maîtres;About Dry Grasses;La Chimera;The Cord of Life;West Indies;POLISARIO, UN PEUPLE EN ARMES; Garm Hava (1973); Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (1973,); The Red Army-PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)
The bunkers once held by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and the Memorial to the International Brigades at City University. The memorial bears a quote from Dolores Ibárruri: “You are history, you are legend, you are the heroic example of solidarity and the universality of democracy”
Fado in Lisbon.
Conferences next June: Kathmandu, Nepal and Dakar, Senegal.
Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on "The Politics of the Soundtrack;" deadline: February 1, 2025; contact email:
st.politics2025@gmail.com, welcome colleagues to contribute and please share widely, thank you: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
Have bought 4 books to read before bed since late Oct; finished Gorky’s “My Childhood” and Gospodinov’s “Time Shelter.” Both interesting, the former sincere and incisive; the latter, too cynical to my taste. Cultural elites popular in the West from former socialist nations share this characteristic.
Since 2021, during the pandemic, some film historian and cinephile friends and I have been hosting bi-weekly online discussions on 1920s-1949 Chinese films, drawing scholars and students from China, the U.S., and beyond. I have learned so much. We have finished discussing over 50 early Chinese films
Visited the International Institute of Social History Amsterdam with other IIAS fellows. Thanks Elf for giving us the special tour. Will definitely go back to do research.
