Dai Jinhua 戴錦華

Dai-Jinhua

Name: Dai Jinhua 戴錦華

Position: Professor
Organisation: Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University

Dai Jinhua is a leading feminist cultural critic in China. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture, film studies, and gender studies. She taught at the Beijing Film Academy before assuming professorship at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture and directorship of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Peking University. She is the author of many books including Invisible, Writing: Cultural Studies in China in the 1990s (1990) , Breaking Out of the Mirror City (1995), Cinema and Desire (2002), Masked Rider: The Writings of Subcomandante Marcos (2006), After the Post-Cold War: The Future
of Chinese History (2018), among others. Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Her literary, film and TV commentary have addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong over the last decades.

She is one of the founding members of the Global University for Sustainability.

 

Brief profile:

  • Born in 1959, Beijing
  • Educated in the Department of Chinese Literature, Peking University
  • Former Associate Professor at the Beijing Film Academy before assuming professorship at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture and directorship of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Peking University
  • Having long been engaged in the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Green movement
  • Author of more than ten scholarly monographs
  • Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Her literary, film and TV commentary have addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong over the last decades.

 

Videos of Dai Jinhua

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Articles:

Icon of Dai Jinhua_21ST CENTURY POSTCOLONIAL THESES Dai Jinhua_21ST CENTURY POSTCOLONIAL THESES (44 KB) 2018-04-24
Icon of Dai Jinhua and Teng Wei_100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Dai Jinhua and Teng Wei_100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (0.3 MB) 2018-04-24
Icon of Dai Jinhua and Teng Wei_100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Dai Jinhua and Teng Wei_100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (0.3 MB) 2018-04-19
Icon of Dai Jinhua and Teng Wei_Dialogue on the Centenary of the Russian Revolution Dai Jinhua and Teng Wei_Dialogue on the Centenary of the Russian Revolution (0.3 MB) 2017-10-05
Icon of Coordinates, Confusions, and Cultural Studies Coordinates, Confusions, and Cultural Studies (0.2 MB) 2012-03-14 Author: Dai Jinhua.
Icon of I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human (1.4 MB) 2011-12-14 Author: Dai Jinhua (Translated by Shuang Shen).
Icon of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s films: pursuing and escaping history Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s films: pursuing and escaping history (91 KB) 2008-06-17 Author: Dai Jinhua (Translated by Zhang Jingyuan).
Icon of Order/Anti-Order: Representation of Identity in Hong Kong Action Movies Order/Anti-Order: Representation of Identity in Hong Kong Action Movies (0.2 MB) 2005-03-14 Author: Dai Jinhua.
Icon of Class and Gender Class and Gender (0.2 MB) 2003-01-01 Author: Dai Jinhua.
Icon of Behind Global Spectacle and National Image Making Behind Global Spectacle and National Image Making (0.1 MB) 2001-03-14 Author: Dai Jinhua.
Icon of Imagined Nostalgia Imagined Nostalgia (1.5 MB) 1997-09-14 Author: Dai Jinhua.
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