Qi Wang
Associate Professor
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
- ADVANCE IAC
Overview
My research interests include Chinese cinema and history, East Asian cinema and history, aesthetics, art history, and theory. My first book, Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2014. I am currently working on my second book project on space, aesthetics, and history in East Asian cinema from the 1950s on. My articles appear in Asian Cinema, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, positions: asia critique and so on. I also (co-)curated the 2008 REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial (New York and Shanghai) and the 2011 Independent Chinese Cinema series at High Museum (Atlanta).
- Ph.D in Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
- M.S. in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
- M.L. in International Communication, Peking University, China, 1999
- B.A. in English Literature, Peking University, China, 1996
Interests
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- United States
- Aesthetics
- Cinema Studies
- Film History and Theory
- Historiography
- History and Memory
- Literary Theory
- Modernity
Courses
- LCC-2500: Intro to Film
- LCC-3254: Film History
- LCC-3256: Major Filmmakers
- LCC-3257: Global Cinema
- LCC-3853: Special Topics in Film
- LCC-4102: Senior Thesis
- LCC-4500: Seminar in Film Studies
- LCC-6215: Media Studies
- LMC-2500: Intro to Film
- LMC-3254: Film History
- LMC-3254R: LMC 3254 Recitation
- LMC-3256: Major Filmmakers
- LMC-3257: Global Cinema
- LMC-4500: Seminar in Film Studies
- LMC-6368: Global Cinema
Selected Publications
Books
- Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema
Date: October 2014
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over sixteen selected works that range from narrative film and documentary to experimental video and digital media (even including a multimedia avant-garde play), this book presents a provocative portrait of the independent filmmakers as a peculiarly pained yet active group of historical subjects of the transitional, post-socialist era. Through a connected investigation of cultural and cinematic concepts including historical consciousness, personal memory, narrative, performance, subjectivity, spatiality, and the body, Wang weaves a critical narrative of the formation of a unique post-socialist cultural consciousness that enables independent cinema and media to become a highly significant and effective conduit for historical thinking in contemporary China.
Covering directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Meng Jinghui, Wang Bing, Wang Guangli, Duan Jinchuan, Cui Zi'en, Shi Tou, and Tang Danhong, this book is essential reading for all students and scholars in Chinese film.
Journal Articles
- Embodied Visions: Chinese Queer Experimental Documentaries by Shi Tou and Cui Zi’en
In: positions: asia critique [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2013
- Those Who Lived in a Wallpapered Home: The Historical Space of the Socialist Chinese Counterespionage Film
In: Journal of Chinese Cinemas [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2011
Chapters
- The Recalcitrance of Reality: Performances, Subjects, and Filmmakers in 24 City and Tape
In: DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2015
- Chicken Poets and Rough Poetry: Figuring the Poet and His Subject(s) in Independent Chinese Cinema
In: Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2013
- Performing Documentation: Wu Wenguang and the Performative Turn of New Chinese Documentary
In: A Companion to Chinese Cinema [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2012
Internet Publications
- Literary Shamanism in Liu Qing’s Fiction of Northeast China
In: MCLC (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature ) Resouce Center
Date: February 2022
- Shadows and Voices: Shuang Xuetao's Fiction of Northeast China
In: MCLC (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature ) Resouce Center
Date: September 2020
- Homecoming, Postsocialist Memory, and Subjects: On the 9th Reel China Biennial
In: MCLC (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature ) Resouce Center
Date: June 2020
- Frozen Waters and Deathly Wells: Ban Yu’s Fiction of Northeast China
In: MCLC (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature ) Resouce Center
Date: September 2019
Recent Publications
Internet Publications
- Literary Shamanism in Liu Qing’s Fiction of Northeast China
In: MCLC (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature ) Resouce Center
Date: February 2022