SELECTED CONFERENCE RESENTATIONS
• “Projecting the ‘Modern’: The Emergence of Commercial Cinemas in Post-Mao China,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Virtual Conference, March 2021.
• “To Overcome the Flaming Mountain: Peking Opera, Special Effects, and Chinese Opera Films of the 1980s,” The 9th Chinese Film History Annual Conference in Beijing, October 2020.
• “Possessed Modernity: The Fantastical Mechanics in the 1980s’ Chinese Popular Cinema,” The 26th Contemporary Cinema Journal Graduate Conference in Beijing, June 2018.
• “Screening Extremity: Men Behind the Sun (1989) and Chinese Exploitation Cinema of the 1980s,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference in Atlanta, March 2016.
• “Post-Mao Cinema Revisited: Trauma, Modernity, and the Spectre of Technology,” The 25th Columbia University Graduate Conference on East Asia, February 2016.
• “Madness, Pseudoscience and Historical Trauma in Post-Mao Popular Cinema of the 1980s,” Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, February 2016.
• “The Chinese Voyage: Revisiting Sci-fi Exploitation Films in Post-Socialist Chinese Cinema,” The Annual Film & History Conference in Madison, WI, November 2015.
• “Black Girl, White Girl: Representations of Feminism in the Transnational French Cinema of the 1960s,” The 3rd Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference at Smith College, April 2015.
ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS
• “The 1980s Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: A Sinophone Critique,” presenter. Sinophone and Chinese Studies Graduate Student Workshop, UCLA, May 2021.
• Ethical Image, Just Story: A Discussion of Documentary Ethics, workshop participant. UCI Critical East Asian Studies Reading Group, UCI, November 2019.
• “Tracing the Currents of Modernity: The Yangtze River and its Cinematic Embodiment in Three Chinese Independent Films,” presenter. Chinese Documentaries 2019: International Symposium and Screenings, UCLA, October 2019.
• “Translating the Dissonance: Problematizing the Audioscape of Sinophone Cinema Through Two Case Studies,” presenter. Sinophone Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Critical Reflections, UCLA, April 2019.
• Research Workshops for Digital Humanities: Data Visualization, workshop participant. UCLA, February 2018.
• “Imagination beyond Borders: Examining The Laser of Death from Coral Island (1981),” presenter. Comparative Literature Symposium,State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 2015.
INVITED TALKS & GUEST LECTURES
• “An Introduction to Transnational Film Studies: A Comparative Study of Early Chinese and Japanese Cinemas,” Invited talk. Nanchang Institute of Technology, December 2020.
• “The Cultural History of Chinese Science-Fiction Cinema: From Late Qing to Contemporary China,” Guest lecture (online). “Popular Culture in Modern Chinese Societies,” Professor Michael Berry, UCLA, April 2020.
• “Su Shi and the Scholar-Official Class of the Northern Song Dynasty: A Transmedia Exploration,” Guest lecture. “Chinese Civilizations,” Dr. Nina Duthie, UCLA, October 2019.
• “Hong Kong Cool: The Wong Kar-Wai Phenomena,” Guest lecture. “Popular Culture in Modern Chinese Societies,” Professor Michael Berry, UCLA, May 2019.
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