Ling Zhang
@lingzhang.bsky.social
Cinema and media studies scholar/film sound and acoustic culture/third world cultural exchange during the cold war/revolutionary feminism/ Chinese-language cinema and media/labor and cinema/workers’ amateur music: https://purchase.academia.edu/LingZhang
Thank you Joshua and Pietro! Look forward to reading this fantastic issue!
our issue of SAQ on "filming capital" is up! contributions from @lingzhang.bsky.social, @ernestpjl.bsky.social, @benjamincrais.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, patrick marshall, cassandra guan, alberto toscano
bad news for haters of the good!
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bad news for haters of the good!
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Filming Capital
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November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thank you Joshua and Pietro! Look forward to reading this fantastic issue!
Dear friends and colleague in London: I am giving a talk titled "Specter of Acoustic Internationalism: 'Voice of Malayan Revolution' in China, 1969-1981" at SOAS on November 11th (Tuesday) 5:15-7:00p.m, welcome to register and attend, and share your comments! Thanks!: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Specter of Acoustic Internationalism: “Voice of Malayan Revolution” in China, 1969-1981
This paper, as part of a book project on cinematic and media encounters between China, the Third World, and Euro-American Left during the Cold War, traces the Voice of Malayan Revolution as a resonant...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Dear friends and colleague in London: I am giving a talk titled "Specter of Acoustic Internationalism: 'Voice of Malayan Revolution' in China, 1969-1981" at SOAS on November 11th (Tuesday) 5:15-7:00p.m, welcome to register and attend, and share your comments! Thanks!: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Dear friends and colleagues in Hong Kong, welcome to attend the book launch event (Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media) at UChicago Hong Kong Center on Friday, November 7, 2025. You can find more details and register in the weblink:
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October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Dear friends and colleagues in Hong Kong, welcome to attend the book launch event (Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media) at UChicago Hong Kong Center on Friday, November 7, 2025. You can find more details and register in the weblink:
uchicago.hk/event/book-l...
uchicago.hk/event/book-l...
Thanks for publishing this piece! Writing this essay was an inspiring political journey! Thanks Matt, the editors, and all my progressive Canadian friends!
In vol. 34 @lingzhang.bsky.social examines Dr. Bethune, a biographical film about a Canadian surgeon, communist, and early advocate for socialized healthcare. Zhang writes that its “socialist aesthetics” can advance transnational, political possibilities.
Read more at the link in our bio!
Read more at the link in our bio!
October 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Thanks for publishing this piece! Writing this essay was an inspiring political journey! Thanks Matt, the editors, and all my progressive Canadian friends!
Visited a unique museum: the Paris Sewer Museum (Musée des égouts de Paris); so many themes converged beneath the city’s polished surface: labor, infrastructure, waste, hygiene, smell, and resistance...This also reminded me of Polish filmmaker AndrzejVajda’s film Kanal (1957).
October 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Visited a unique museum: the Paris Sewer Museum (Musée des égouts de Paris); so many themes converged beneath the city’s polished surface: labor, infrastructure, waste, hygiene, smell, and resistance...This also reminded me of Polish filmmaker AndrzejVajda’s film Kanal (1957).
Friends and colleagues in Paris, welcome to my presentation, "The Kite, the Wind, and the Monkey King: Sino-French Cinematic Journeys, 1950s–1980s," at Maison Suger, October 9th (Thursday), 7-8p.m., look forward to your questions and suggestions: fmsh.fr/en/events/kite…
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October 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Friends and colleagues in Paris, welcome to my presentation, "The Kite, the Wind, and the Monkey King: Sino-French Cinematic Journeys, 1950s–1980s," at Maison Suger, October 9th (Thursday), 7-8p.m., look forward to your questions and suggestions: fmsh.fr/en/events/kite…
Hybrid book launch event, Dutch time Thursday (09/25) 3:00p.m., Eastern time 9:00a.m., Beijing time 9:00p.m. Look forward to a productive discussion with colleagues. Welcome to register and participate: Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media: www.iias.asia/events/socia...
Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media | IIAS
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September 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hybrid book launch event, Dutch time Thursday (09/25) 3:00p.m., Eastern time 9:00a.m., Beijing time 9:00p.m. Look forward to a productive discussion with colleagues. Welcome to register and participate: Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media: www.iias.asia/events/socia...
Thanks Matt for editing the special issue, my article, "Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune (Zhang Junxiang, 1965)," is available for free download, look forward to your critique: www.academia.edu/129826352/DR...
DRESSING THE WOUNDS: MEDICAL INTERNATIONALISM AND EMBODIED REALISM IN DR. BETHUNE
This article explores the cinematic and political significance of Dr. Bethune (Zhang Junxiang, 1965), a Chinese biographical film that transforms internationalist ideals into lived, corporeal experien...
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June 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thanks Matt for editing the special issue, my article, "Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune (Zhang Junxiang, 1965)," is available for free download, look forward to your critique: www.academia.edu/129826352/DR...
Thanks Matt Croomb for editing this special issue, I contributed an article, “Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune”: utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...
Contents | Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies 34, 1
Special Issue: Cinema and More-than-Human Solidarity
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May 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thanks Matt Croomb for editing this special issue, I contributed an article, “Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune”: utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...
Shared by an Indonesian friend: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Indonesia is writing an 'updated version' of history. Here's what it looks like
The ABC understands several historians have resigned from a controversial project to write an official history of Indonesia, which critics say leaves out key events, including human rights abuses.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Shared by an Indonesian friend: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Look forward to attending the conference remotely tomorrow:
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Tuesday 27 May 2025 10.00am to 4.00pm
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre:
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Tuesday 27 May 2025 10.00am to 4.00pm
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre:
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism
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May 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Look forward to attending the conference remotely tomorrow:
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Tuesday 27 May 2025 10.00am to 4.00pm
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre:
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Tuesday 27 May 2025 10.00am to 4.00pm
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre:
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
Tomorrow evening in The Hague, welcome colleagues nearby.
April 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Tomorrow evening in The Hague, welcome colleagues nearby.
Presenting a book chapter, entitled "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War" at IIAS Leiden and online tomorrow afternoon 2:00p.m.(EST 8a.m.), welcome friends and colleagues to join: www.iias.asia/events/fire-...
April 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Presenting a book chapter, entitled "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War" at IIAS Leiden and online tomorrow afternoon 2:00p.m.(EST 8a.m.), welcome friends and colleagues to join: www.iias.asia/events/fire-...
Dear friends and colleagues, welcome to register to join my talk at IIAS in Leiden, the Netherlands and online on April 17th: "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War": www.iias.asia/events/fire-...
Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War | IIAS
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April 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Dear friends and colleagues, welcome to register to join my talk at IIAS in Leiden, the Netherlands and online on April 17th: "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War": www.iias.asia/events/fire-...
Tsinghua Professor Yan Hairong's talk, "Chinese Capital Accumulation and the Belt and Road Initiative," at Iias Leiden this Friday (03/07) at 2:00p.m., welcome friends in Leiden and Amsterdam to attend and share with friends and colleagues: www.iias.asia/events/chine...
March 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Tsinghua Professor Yan Hairong's talk, "Chinese Capital Accumulation and the Belt and Road Initiative," at Iias Leiden this Friday (03/07) at 2:00p.m., welcome friends in Leiden and Amsterdam to attend and share with friends and colleagues: www.iias.asia/events/chine...
With permission from co-editors, I have uploaded our introduction to Socializing Medicine online for free access. Look forward to your thoughts--many of the issues we raise regarding medicine, health injustice, and audiovisual media remain highly relevant. Thanks!: www.academia.edu/127485109/_I...
February 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
With permission from co-editors, I have uploaded our introduction to Socializing Medicine online for free access. Look forward to your thoughts--many of the issues we raise regarding medicine, health injustice, and audiovisual media remain highly relevant. Thanks!: www.academia.edu/127485109/_I...
Revolutionary books bought in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
January 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Revolutionary books bought in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
After 4 years of collaborative efforts, our edited volume, Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, has been published by HKUP. Colleagues in North America can order through UCP website. Thanks for your support, look forward to your feedback: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
January 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
After 4 years of collaborative efforts, our edited volume, Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, has been published by HKUP. Colleagues in North America can order through UCP website. Thanks for your support, look forward to your feedback: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Inspiring books I read in 2024:My Childhood; New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China; The Right to Be Lazy; Labor and Monopoly Capital; Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China’s Workers; Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema…
January 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Inspiring books I read in 2024:My Childhood; New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China; The Right to Be Lazy; Labor and Monopoly Capital; Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China’s Workers; Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema…
The ten most inspiring films I watched in 2024: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat; Ni chaînes ni maîtres;About Dry Grasses;La Chimera;The Cord of Life;West Indies;POLISARIO, UN PEUPLE EN ARMES; Garm Hava (1973); Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (1973,); The Red Army-PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)
January 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The ten most inspiring films I watched in 2024: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat; Ni chaînes ni maîtres;About Dry Grasses;La Chimera;The Cord of Life;West Indies;POLISARIO, UN PEUPLE EN ARMES; Garm Hava (1973); Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (1973,); The Red Army-PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)
The bunkers once held by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and the Memorial to the International Brigades at City University. The memorial bears a quote from Dolores Ibárruri: “You are history, you are legend, you are the heroic example of solidarity and the universality of democracy”
December 31, 2024 at 9:27 PM
The bunkers once held by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and the Memorial to the International Brigades at City University. The memorial bears a quote from Dolores Ibárruri: “You are history, you are legend, you are the heroic example of solidarity and the universality of democracy”
Conferences next June: Kathmandu, Nepal and Dakar, Senegal.
December 19, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Conferences next June: Kathmandu, Nepal and Dakar, Senegal.
Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on "The Politics of the Soundtrack;" deadline: February 1, 2025; contact email:
st.politics2025@gmail.com, welcome colleagues to contribute and please share widely, thank you: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
st.politics2025@gmail.com, welcome colleagues to contribute and please share widely, thank you: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
cfp | call for papers
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December 16, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on "The Politics of the Soundtrack;" deadline: February 1, 2025; contact email:
st.politics2025@gmail.com, welcome colleagues to contribute and please share widely, thank you: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
st.politics2025@gmail.com, welcome colleagues to contribute and please share widely, thank you: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
Have bought 4 books to read before bed since late Oct; finished Gorky’s “My Childhood” and Gospodinov’s “Time Shelter.” Both interesting, the former sincere and incisive; the latter, too cynical to my taste. Cultural elites popular in the West from former socialist nations share this characteristic.
December 13, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Have bought 4 books to read before bed since late Oct; finished Gorky’s “My Childhood” and Gospodinov’s “Time Shelter.” Both interesting, the former sincere and incisive; the latter, too cynical to my taste. Cultural elites popular in the West from former socialist nations share this characteristic.