Special discussion on Chinese cinema

On January 18, 2011, the Cinema Project organized a discussion session on Chinese cinema between Associate Professor Zheng Zhang (Department of Cinematography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) and lecturers from the Faculty of Literature, Department of Art Studies, lecturers and students.The main content of the discussion was about Chinese cinema studies, especially early Shanghai cinema. Associate Professor Zheng Zhang emphasized one of the characteristics of early Chinese cinema: the rise of narrative films. Through two films, "Poet from the Sea" (produced in 1927) written and directed by Hou Yao and "A String of Pearls" (produced in 1926) written by Hou Yao, Associate Professor Zheng Zhang made important discoveries about Hou Yao's early filmmaking methods and the rise of the romantic film genre in Shanghai cinema in the 1920s. Previously, Associate Professor Zheng Zhang also had a number of discussions with students of the film project about the history of Chinese cinema. Associate Professor. Zheng Zhang is a research and teaching expert in film history and historiography, early cinema, popular culture and modernity, gender and media, cinema and urban culture, cosmopolitanism, Chinese-language films (including documentaries and video), Asian and East Asian cinema studies.