Chuanhui Meng

she/her/hers

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

428 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

M.A.: East Asian Studies (Critical Asian Humanities Track), Duke University, 2018

Modern and contemporary Chinese film and culture
International film history and transnational movement of cinema
Film and media theory (with focus on genre theory, affect theory, and film philosophy)
Cold War and the global 1950s
Women's studies and ethnic minority studies
Ecocriticism and ecocinemas

Publications

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Meng, Chuanhui. "The Lü Ban Trilogy: Unfinished Comedies, Transnational Film Auteurism, and a Comedic Modernism in Early Socialist China." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 36.1 (forthcoming in Summer 2024) .
Review of The Production and Distribution of Lianhuanhua 1949-1966, Ph.D. Dissertation, by Rebecca Scott, University of Nottingham, 2016. Research Center of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, ed. Daisy Yan Du, John Crespi, Yiman Wang, etc.,https://acas.ust.hk/2021/05/21/the-production-and-distribution-of-lianhuanhua-1949-1966-ph-d-dissertation-by-rebecca-scott-university-of-nottingham- 2016-322-pp/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.

Awards

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Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2023-2024
The Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study, 2022-2023
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Graduate Fellowship, 2018-2021
Graduate Tuition Fellowship awarded by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, 2016-2017
National Scholarship awarded by Ministry of Education of China, 2014

Courses

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AMES 3356 Chinese Film (Summer 2023)
AMES 3356 Chinese Film (Summer 2021)
AMES 3356 Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Summer 2020)
CHN 3161 Movies in Modern China (Summer 2019)
AMES 1201 Arrow, Fist and Sword: Conceptions of the Hero in Asian Cultures (Fall 2021)
AMES 3356 Chinese Film (Spring 2021)
AMES 3556 Korean Film and Media (Fall 2020)
AMES 3337 Contemporary Chinese Literature and Popular Culture (Spring 2020)
ALL 3336 Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Literature and Culture (Fall 2019; Fall 2021)