Ying Zhu

Dr. Ying ZHU is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the open access peer-reviewed academic journal Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images. Her research areas encompass Chinese cinema and media, Sino-Hollywood relations, and streaming media and serial narrative. She has published four research monographs including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market (2022), which The China Quarterly calls “a one-stop shop for facts and figures about the Chinese film market, and Hollywood’s presence therein–about what happened, where and when;” and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2013), which The New Inquiry calls “An indispensable guide to the Chinese media landscape,” and six co-edited books including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds (2019) with a foreword by Joseph Nye. Her first research monograph, Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (2003) pioneered the industry analysis of Chinese film studios, with the Journal of Asian Studies calling it “a path-breaking book that initiated the institutional study of Chinese cinema.” Her second research monograph, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market together with three co-edited books—TV China (2009), TV Drama in China (2008), and Television Dramas: The US and Chinese Perspectives (2005) pioneered the subfield of Chinese TV drama studies in the West. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. She has written for and been reviewed and interviewed in major media outlets including The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, South China Morning Post, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, as well as the BBC, CNN, and NPR.

She reviews manuscripts and evaluates research proposals for major publications and research foundations in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the US, and the UK, and further serves on editorial boards of various publications.

Zhu is a recipient of a US National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Fulbright (China) Senior Research Fellowship.

University of Texas – Austin