Associate Professor of Chinese Film and Media
Undergraduate Adviser
Ph.D., New York University
- 306 Pugh Hall
- yx241@ufl.edu
- 352.392.6539
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Office Hours – Spring 2022
- By appointment
Biography
Dr. Ying Xiao is an associate professor of global Chinese studies and film and media studies at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. from Cinema Studies at New York University. Her teaching and research interests primarily concentrate on Chinese-language films (mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong), Chinese and Asians in the global context, Classical Hollywood cinema in the sound era, popular music, youth culture, sound studies, theories of globalization and transnationalism, Buddhism and film, and the discourse of gender and sexuality.
She is the book author of China in the Mix: Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization (University Press of Mississippi, 2017) and has published many articles on neoliberalism and Chinese film industry, hip hop culture, Chinese rock ‘n’ roll film, documentary and transcultural media production. Before joining the University of Florida, she was involved in a series of TV and documentary productions. She has participated in the curatorship of Reel China Documentary Film Festival since 2004 and co/organized “DV China and Social Change” film series and workshop in 2011, “Sound of China: Folklore, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Chinese Hip Hop” symposium in 2013, “Shanghai in a Global Context: Cinema, Media, and the Crossing of Imaginations” workshop in 2017, and “Gender, Disability, and the Chinese Muslim’s Encounters with Cultural Traditions and a Modernized World” colloquium and film series in 2019, and “Labor, Love, and Homecoming: Towards a Trans-Asian and Global-Cultural Sisterhood” symposium and screening in 2022. Dr. Xiao holds various visiting professorships and fellowships in Fudan University, Yangzhou University, Xiamen University, Zhejiang University, and so on. She sits on a variety of editorial boards and serves as a reviewer for important academic journals, presses, grants, and awards. She has actively partaken in and facilitated a number of international film festivals and also been extensively interviewed and featured at many national and international news and media outlets.
Areas of Interest
Chinese cinema and Sinophone studies, soundtrack, mass culture and media, popular music and youth culture, globalization and multiculturalism, transnational and diaspora studies, Buddhism and film, gender studies and bodily representation, modern Chinese language, literature, and culture.
Selected Publications
Books:
China in the Mix: Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 313 pages.
Lingyan xiangkan: haiwai xuezhe ping dangdai zhongguo jilupian [Reel China: A New Look at Contemporary Chinese Documentary] (assistant editor and translator, edited by Ping Jie). Shanghai: Wenhui Press, 2006. 204 pages.
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Hsia Moon and the Bluebird Trilogy: Hong Kong New Wave, Border-Crossing, and the Chinese Connections in the Early 1980s,” Zhongguo renmin daxue fuying baokan ziliao: Yingshi yishu [China Social Science Excellence: Movie and Television Art] 12 (2021): 82-93.
“Xiameng de huigui yu xiemu: kuaiyu shiye xia xianggang xinlangchao yu 20 shiji 80 niandai chu de dianying wenhua jiaohui” [Hsia Moon, Hong Kong New Wave, and Sinophone Film and Transcultural Linkage in the Early 1980s], Beijing dianying xuebao [The Journal of Beijing Film Academy] 7 (2021): 62-73.
“‘Yesterday Once More:’ IP Film, Phantom/Fandom of Music, and the Youthful (Re)turn of Chinese Cinema in the Age of New Digital Media.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 15.1 (2021): 87-103.
“Scroll Montage and the Cinematic: A Conversation with Director Gu Xiaogang on Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains,” with Wei Lin, Millennium Film Journal 73 (Spring 2021): 66-75.
“In Search of a Chinese Hamlet: Translation, Interpretation, and Personalities in Postwar Film Cultural Exchange.” In Representing Translation: Languages, Translation, and Translators in Contemporary Media, edited by Dror Abend-David, 21-44. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
“Shengyin, huamian, yu dazhong chuanmei: lianjie shijie yu zhongguo de meijie” [Overture: Sound, Image, and Popular Media at the Nexus of Global-China]. Translated by Li Jianpeng). Dianying yanjiu [Film Studies] 7 (2019): 47-54.
“‘Lust, Caution!?:’ Shanghai and the Transnational and Transgressive Imaginations in Classical Hollywood Cinema.” Asian Cinema 28.2 (October 2017): 139-159.
“Chinese Rock ‘n’ Roll Film and Cui Jian on Screen.” In The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, edited by Claudia Gorbman, John Richardson, and Carol Vernallis, 266-283. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
“‘Leitmotif’: State, Market, and Postsocialist Chinese Film Industry under Neoliberal Globalization.” In Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, edited by Jyotsna Kapur and Keith B. Wagner, 157-179. New York and London: Routledge, 2011.
“‘Hip Hop Is My Knife, Rap Is My Sword:’ Hip Hop, Cultural (Re)production and the Question of Authenticity and Authorship in Contemporary China.” Special issue of Three Asias: Japan, S. Korea, China. Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 22 (2010): 269-298.
“Xi zhangjie dui xin nvxing de tansuo” [An Exploration on the New Woman in Zhang Jie’s Works]. Xi’an shiyou daxue xuebao [Journal of Xi’an Petroleum University] (Social Sciences), no. 4 (2004): 56-60.
“‘Wo zai xiacun de shihou’ ji si wu shi niandai de wenyi lunzheng” [“My Stay at Xia Village” and Literary Polemics in the 1940s and 1950s]. Jishou daxue xuebao [University of Jishou University], no. 2 (2001): 51-54.
Book Reviews, Proceedings, and Translations
“Overture: Sound, Image, and Popular Media at the Nexus of Global-China,” translated by Li Jianpeng, Dianying yanjiu [Film Studies] 6 (2018), 15 pages (forthcoming and accepted for publication).
Review of Naomi Greene, From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014), China Review International 22. 2 (2017): 115-120.
Review of John Berra and Wei Ju, eds. World Film Locations: Shanghai (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2014), China Review International 21. 2 (2014): 107-110.
“Cross-national and Gendered Perspectives: The Cinematic Construction of Intellectual Melodrama in The Second Handshake.” In National, Transnational, and International: Chinese Cinema and Asian Cinema in the Context of Globalization. The Centennial Celebration of Chinese Cinema and Annual Conference of ACSS (May 2005): 357-360.
Translation of Ping Jie. “Introduction: Contemporary Ink Art Evolution.”(from Chinese to English). In Shuimo yanyi [Contemporary Ink Art Evolution], edited by Ping Jie, 13-19. Beijing: The Art State Press, 2009.
Translation of Zheng Tiantian. “The Tip of the Hostesses’ Iceberg?: On Leave Me Alone by Hu Shu.” (from English to Chinese). In Lingyan xiangkan: haiwai xuezhe ping dangdai zhongguo jilupian [Reel China: A New Look at Contemporary Chinese Documentary], edited by Ping Jie, 133 -139. Shanghai: Wenhui Press, 2006.
Work in Progress:
“Homecoming, Border-Crossing, and Conjuncture Film: Hsia Moon, Hong Kong New Wave, and the Bluebird Trilogy, 1982-1984”, forthcoming in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies in 2023.
Review of Hentyle Yapp, Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021), forthcoming in The Journal of Asian Studies in May 2022.
Eileen Chang as Method: Transpacific Network, Transmediality, and Affect in Relation”
“The New Moving Ethnoscape from Crazy Rich Asians, The Farewell, to Catastrophe and Media Pandemic at the turn of COVID-19”
Exchanging Screens, Switching Voices: Dubbing, Translating, and Imagining the Western Others in the Second Half of Twentieth Century China (second sole-authored monograph)
Courses Taught:
- CHT3500: Chinese Culture
- CHT3391/ ENG4135, Chinese Film and Media
- CHT3523/ ENG4135: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the New Global Cinema
- CHI4930/REL3938/IDH3931: Buddhism and Film (with Professor Mario Poceski)
- CHI3410: Advance Chinese 1
- CHI3411: Advance Chinese 2
- CHI4051: Fourth Year Chinese 2
- CHI4930/RTV490/MMC6936: Documentary, Society, and Media (with Professor Churchill Roberts)