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
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...
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...
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).
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-...
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.
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.
Since 2021, during the pandemic, some film historian and cinephile friends and I have been hosting bi-weekly online discussions on 1920s-1949 Chinese films, drawing scholars and students from China, the U.S., and beyond. I have learned so much. We have finished discussing over 50 early Chinese films
November 30, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Since 2021, during the pandemic, some film historian and cinephile friends and I have been hosting bi-weekly online discussions on 1920s-1949 Chinese films, drawing scholars and students from China, the U.S., and beyond. I have learned so much. We have finished discussing over 50 early Chinese films
Visited the International Institute of Social History Amsterdam with other IIAS fellows. Thanks Elf for giving us the special tour. Will definitely go back to do research.
November 28, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Visited the International Institute of Social History Amsterdam with other IIAS fellows. Thanks Elf for giving us the special tour. Will definitely go back to do research.
Our panel on “Solidarity Filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s” for SCMS has been accepted. Look forward to seeing friends and colleagues next April in Chicago.
November 26, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Our panel on “Solidarity Filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s” for SCMS has been accepted. Look forward to seeing friends and colleagues next April in Chicago.
Recently finished reading the English translation of Gorky’s “My Childhood.” Once beloved and widely read in China, his autobiographical trilogy still holds a resonance. Revisiting the book, I found its power undiminished—It moved me to tears; also quote a sentence in an article I am working on.
November 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Recently finished reading the English translation of Gorky’s “My Childhood.” Once beloved and widely read in China, his autobiographical trilogy still holds a resonance. Revisiting the book, I found its power undiminished—It moved me to tears; also quote a sentence in an article I am working on.
Thanks Jian Fan and Isabella Zang for visiting IIAS Leiden to share their poignant documentary, “After the Rain” (2021). The film provides an intimate and humane portrayal of families who lost their children in the devastating 2008 earthquake and later chose to give birth to or adopt another child.
November 19, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Thanks Jian Fan and Isabella Zang for visiting IIAS Leiden to share their poignant documentary, “After the Rain” (2021). The film provides an intimate and humane portrayal of families who lost their children in the devastating 2008 earthquake and later chose to give birth to or adopt another child.
Went to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam yesterday. Sara Gomez’s short documentaris were stunning, so nuanced and playful. They reveal clear connections to her doc-style fiction film One Way or Another, with recurring thematic and stylistic motifs. The two new docs were interesting.
November 17, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Went to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam yesterday. Sara Gomez’s short documentaris were stunning, so nuanced and playful. They reveal clear connections to her doc-style fiction film One Way or Another, with recurring thematic and stylistic motifs. The two new docs were interesting.