Ying Zhu

A leading scholar in film and media, Ying Zhu’s research areas encompass Chinese cinema and media, Sino-Hollywood relations, and TV dramas. Zhu has published ten books, including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market{{Cite web |last=Kokas |first=Aynne |title=Transpacific Connections and Competitions: On Ying Zhu's "Hollywood in China" and Daryl Joji Maeda's "Like Water" |url=https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/transpacific-connections-and-competitions-on-ying-zhus-hollywood-in-china-and-daryl-joji-maedas-like-water/ |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}{{Cite book |last=Zhu |first=Ying |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1312160876 |title=Hollywood in China : behind the scenes of the world's largest movie market |date=2022 |isbn=978-1-62097-219-9 |location=New York |oclc=1312160876}} (2022), Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds (Coedited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney),{{cite book|last=Zhu|first=Ying|title=Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds (co-edited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney)|year=2020|publisher=Routledge|url=https://www.routledge.com/Soft-Power-With-Chinese-Characteristics-Chinas-Campaign-for-Hearts/Edney-Rosen-Zhu/p/book/9781138631670}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/03/30/hard-truths-about-chinas-soft-power/|title = Hard Truths About China's "Soft Power"|date = 30 March 2020}}

Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2014){{cite book|last=Zhu|first=Ying|title=Two Billion Eyes|year=2012|publisher=The New Press|location=New York|url=http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_catalog&task=author&author_id=P39602}}{{cite web|title=New Press announcement of Two Billion Eyes|url=http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/mediaculture/assets/zhu-two-billion.pdf}}{{cite book|title=Two Billion Eyes, on amazon.com|isbn=978-1595584649|last1=Zhu|first1=Ying|year=2012|publisher=New Press }} and Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (2010).Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (co-edited with [http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003651&CFID=3588827&CFTOKEN=86113278 Stanley Rosen] ), Hong Kong University Press, 2010, 292, on amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Art-Politics-Commerce-Chinese-Cinema/dp/962209175X

Her first research monograph, Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (2003) pioneered the study on history of Chinese film studios.Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform: the Ingenuity of the System, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, 230.{{cite book|title=Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform, on amazon.com|isbn=978-0275979591|last1=Zhu|first1=Ying|last2=Zhu|first2=Associate Professor Ying|year=2003|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}Review in The Journal of Asian Studies available at http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/mediaculture/assets/review%20of%20my%20book.doc

Her second research monograph, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (2008),Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market, London: Routledge, 2008, 176{{cite book|title=Television in Post Reform China, on amazon.com|isbn=978-0415492201|last1=Zhu|first1=Ying|date=19 February 2009|publisher=Routledge }}Review in [http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcjc20 the Chinese Journal of Communications], available at http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/mediaculture/assets/review%20of%20my%20book%20xu.doc

together with two edited books in which her work featured—TV China (2009)TV China (co-edited with [http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/berry/ Chris Berry] Chris Berry), Indiana University Press, 2009, 259 and TV Drama in China (2008)—pioneered the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West.Television Dramas: the US and Chinese Perspectives (co-edited with Chungjing Qu), Shanghai: Shanlian, 2005, 569. Her latest research monograph, [https://thenewpress.com/books/hollywood-china Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market] explores how movies have become one of the biggest areas of competition between the world’s two remaining superpowers.

Zhu 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)"Google versus China", Co-Producer, researcher, and interviewer, a 50 minute documentary for VPRO, the Netherlands National Television’s Backlight Program,

first aired April 18, 2011 http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/2010-2011/ongekend-china/google-versus-china.html and China: From Cartier to Confucius (2012), both screened on the Netherlands Public Television.{{cite web|title=Netherlands Public Television Screening|url=http://www.filmfestival.nl/publiek/films/china-van-cartier-naar-confucius}}

Zhu is founder and editor in chief of [https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/gs/issue/46/info/ Global Storytelling] an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media, and technology of the moving image.

Zhu received a 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a 2008 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a 2017 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship.{{cite web|title=CSI Professors|url=http://csitoday.com/2016/06/two-csi-professors-receive-fulbright-awards/#.W5grU33PxBw}}

• Cinema of China
• Television in the People's Republic of China

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Category:American mass media scholars