03/08/2013
25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan
Friday, March 8, 2013, at 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan.
Researched and co-produced by Ying Zhu, “China: From Cartier to Confucius” follows a group of students at an elite Chinese university as they question the value of a market-fundamentalist developmental path China has embarked upon. Through the work of Confucius, this group of self-claimed cultural conservatives is exploring an alternative political and social system anchored on Chinese cultural tradition as opposed to the Marxist or Liberal Democratic model of Western origin.
Ying Zhu (PhD, UT Austin) is Professor of Cinema Studies and Chair of the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island. A leading scholar on Chinese cinema and media studies, Dr. Zhu’s publications have appeared in prominent media journals, edited book volumes, and websites/blogs in the US, China, and Europe. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2006) and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2008), and the author and editor of eight books, including Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central TV (New Press, 2012), which has received significant academic and media attention.
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