Yingjin Zhang received his M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1988 and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University in 1992. Before joining the UCSD faculty in 2001, he taught at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he was honored with an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 1996. He served as President of the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature in 1993-94 and received, among others, a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 1995-96, a Summer Faculty Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999, a Pacific Cultural Foundation Research Grant (Taipei) in 2000, a Fulbright China Research Fellowship in 2003-04, and a UC Humanities Research Institute Fellowship (Irvine) in 2005. He taught at the University of Chicago as a visiting professor in 2006.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Co-ed. with Paul G. Pickowicz and preface. From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
China in Focus: Studies of Chinese Film and Literature in the Perspective of Academic History (in Chinese). Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2006.
Chinese National Cinema. National Cinemas Series. London: Routledge, 2004.
Screening China: Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002.
Ed. and introduction. Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Ed. and introduction. China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
With Zhiwei Xiao. Encyclopedia of Chinese Film. London: Routledge, 1998.
The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
“Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen.” Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia. Ed. Corey K. Creekmur and Mark Sidel. Palgrave, 2007.
“Cultural Translation between the World and the Chinese: The Problematics in Positioning Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies [Taipei] 31.2 (July 2005): 127-44.
“Styles, Subjects, and Special Points of View: A Study of Contemporary Chinese Independent Documentary.” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film [England] 2.2 (2004): 119-35.
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