Ying Zhu

Ying Zhu is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York and Director of the Center for Film and Moving Image Research in the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University.

[1] Zhu is the Founder and Chief Editor of Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images A leading scholar in film and media, Ying Zhu’s research areas encompass Chinese cinema and media, Sino-Hollywood relations, and TV dramas.

Zhu has published ten books, including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market[2][3] (2022), Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds (Coedited with Stanley Rosen and Kingsley Edney),[4][5] Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2014)[6][7][8] and Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (2010).

Zhu reviews manuscripts for major publications and evaluates grant proposals for research foundations in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S. Zhu also produces current affairs documentary films, including Google vs. China (2011)[18] and China: From Cartier to Confucius (2012), both screened on the Netherlands Public Television.

[19] Zhu is founder and editor in chief of Global Storytelling an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media, and technology of the moving image.