Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media
Hong Kong University Press · 2025
State University of New York Purchase College
Ling Zhang
Professor of Film Studies
Her research focuses on film sound and acoustic culture, Chinese-language cinema and digital media, gender and labor in cinema, documentary, tricontinental media histories, and global media encounters during the Cold War.
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Profile
Biography
Ling Zhang is Associate Professor of cinema studies at SUNY Purchase College. She co-edited Socializing Medicine (Hong Kong University Press, 2025) and is completing two monographs on Chinese cinema, transnational acoustic culture, and traveling media in China and the world. Her work appears in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Film Quarterly.
Research
Selected Publications
Book (co-editor)
Article
A Scratch Embellishing an Empty Face: Shamate Subculture and Chinese Migrant Workers in We Were Smart
South Atlantic Quarterly · 2025
Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune
Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies · 2025
Sound Shimmers, "Luminosity in the Darkness": Ear-Witnessing Cold War Paranoia in Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies · 2022
From "Mystification" to "Massification": Canton Counterespionage Films and Cold War Geopolitics
The Journal of Popular Culture · 2021
Foreshadowing the Future of Capitalism: Surveillance Technology and Digital Realism in Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
Comparative Cinema · 2020
Book Chapter
"Introduction" of Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media
Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media · 2025
Taipei Story (1985) Floundering in the City of Stone and Glass
32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema · 2022
VOICING NEW LIFE: Prostitute reform and the socialist public sphere in 1950s Chinese cinema
The Routledge Companion to Media and the City · 2022
Rhythmic Movement, Metaphoric Sound and Transcultural Transmediality: Liu Naou and The Man Who Has a Camera (1933)
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China · 2018
Five Golden Flowers as a Socialist Road Movie
The Global Road Movie : Alternative Journeys around the World · 2018