Zijiangdistinguished professor of East China Normal University, director ofECNU-Cornell Center for Comparative Humanities, and doctoral supervisor ofSchool of Communication of East China Normal University.
Hermain research fields are New Documentary Movement in China, Film and TelevisionTheory, Cultural Studies, Political Economy of Communication, issues concerningagriculture, rural areas, and rural people, etc. She has published more than 65papers. At present, she is also the chief editor of Journalism Bimonthly; editorial board member of Film Art; the international editorialboard member of TransAsia: Screen Cultures,Hong Kong University Press; the international editorial board member of Studies in Documentary Film, Intellectpress, UK; the international jury of GlobalMedia and Communication, Sage press, UK. Her papers have been translatedinto English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, etc.