Rate My Professor Yanhong Zhu

Zhu has an extensive publication record. Her forthcoming book chapter, “Gendered Screens: Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female Filmmakers,” appears in Crossing Boundaries/Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film (SUNY Press). Other notable book chapters include “Zhai Yongming” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chinese Poets Since 1949 (2021), “Teaching Chinese Through Film: Rationale, Practice, and Future Directions” in The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching (2019), and “Drama-tic Synthesis: Time, Memory, and History in the Writings of the Nine Leaves Poets” in Chinese Poetic Modernisms (2019). She co-edited the special issue Collective Memory and Spatiality: Rethinking Post-Socialist/Colonial/Martial-Law Chinese Cinemas for East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (2015). Key articles feature “The Human and the Beast: Humanity, Animality, and Cultural Critique in Contemporary Chinese Cinema” (Chinese Literature Today, 2018), “The Crisis of the American Dream: On Going-Abroad Films in Contemporary Chinese Cinema” (American Quarterly, 2017), and “A Past Revisited: Re-presentation of the Nanjing Massacre in City of Life and Death” (Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2013). She has also published several book reviews in journals such as Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Her works in progress include Reconfiguring Chinese Modernism: The Poetics of Temporality in 1940s Fiction and Poetry and Screening the Unnamable: Chinese Cinema and the Historical Event.