Ying Zhu

Ying ZHU’s research areas covers global entertainment industry, encompassing Chinese cinema and media, Sino-Hollywood relations, and streaming media and serial narrative. She has published four single-authored books including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Film Market and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television, six co-edited books including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds and Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema, and numerous articles in academic journals and major media outlets including Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Screen, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal. The recipient of a US National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Fulbright (China) Senior Research Fellowship, Zhu is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed open access academic journal, Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images. Formerly a tenured full-professor at the City University of New York, Zhu currently serves as a Disney Endowed Visiting Chair Professor of Global Media at the Schwarzman College and a Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute.