Dai Jinhua

Background

She was born in 1959, Beijing and educated in the Department of Chinese Literature, Peking University.

Career

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 has long been engaged in the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Green movement.

She is the author of more than ten scholarly monographs. Her literary, film and television commentary have addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong over the last decades.

1959 Born in Beijing 1982 Graduated from Department of Chinese Literature, Peking University 1987-1992 Lecturer, Department of Filmic Literature, Beijing Film Institute 1993-1997 Associate Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University 1996- present Adjunct Professor, Ohio State University (graduate program) 1997- present Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and Language, Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University 2009- present Adjunct Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University.

Politics

Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, eds.

Connections

associate:

Filmic Literature, Beijing