Next Tuesday (11/19) at 3:00p.m. (Amsterdam time), with Sarah and Rachel, online discussion about Film/making as research strategy. My title is "Acoustic Internationalism in Solidarity Media Networks": Academic Ontologies: Film/making as Research Strategy iias.asia/events/academi…

Film screening and Q & A with Chinese documentary filmmaker Jian Fan, Monday (11/18), 1:15p.m. at Leiden University, welcome to register here: After the Rain iias.asia/events/after-r…

Our edited volume, Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media (edited by Pao-chen Tang , Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang, HKUP, 2025), is available for pre-order: barnesandnoble.com/w/socializing-…

Moving to Bluesky as well, see you there, friends and colleagues.

Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on "The Politics of the Soundtrack;" deadline: February 1, 2025; contact email: [email protected], welcome colleagues to contribute and please share widely, thank you: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/14…

After 4 years of collaborative efforts, our edited volume, Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, has been published by HKUP. Colleagues in North America can order through UCP website. Thanks and look forward to your feedback: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

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With permission from co-editors, I have uploaded our introduction to Socializing Medicine online for free access. Look forward to your thoughts--many of the issues we raise regarding medicine, health injustice, and audiovisual media remain highly relevant: academia.edu/127485109/_Int…

Tsinghua Professor Yan Hairong's talk, "Chinese Capital Accumulation and the Belt and Road Initiative," at Iias Leiden this Friday (03/07) at 2:00p.m., welcome friends in Leiden and Amsterdam to attend and share with friends and colleagues: iias.asia/events/chinese…

Dear friends and colleagues, welcome to register to join my talk in Leiden and online on April 17th: "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War": iias.asia/events/fire-an…

Fire and Fury from Afar🎥 In this hybrid IIAS seminar on 17 April, Ling Zhang (Purchase College, SUNY) examines the Chinese reception of a #Mexican film to understand the power of #film in resisting powerful states. Film Dialogue ICAS iias.asia/events/fire-an…

Presenting a book chapter, entitled "Fire and Fury from Afar: Mexican Films in China and Sino-Latin American Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War" at IIAS Leiden and online tomorrow afternoon 2:00p.m.(EST 8a.m.), welcome friends and colleagues to join: iias.asia/events/fire-an…

Tomorrow in The Hague.

Look forward to attending the conference remotely tomorrow: International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference Tuesday 27 May 2025 10.00am to 4.00pm Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre: lse.ac.uk/seac/events/20…

Shared by an Indonesian friend: abc.net.au/news/2025-05-2…

Thanks Matt Croomb for editing this special issue, I contributed an article, “Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune”: utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34/1…

Thanks Matt for editing the special issue, my article, "Dressing the Wounds: Medical Internationalism and Embodied Realism in Dr. Bethune (Zhang Junxiang, 1965)," is available for free download, look forward to your critique: academia.edu/129826352/DRES…

In Bologna for the film festival, so far have seen: 1) El Grito (1968, Leobardo López Aretche); 2) The Sandglass (1973, Wojciech Has); 3) Ghazl El-Banat (1985, Jocelyne Saab); 4) Prem Sanyas (1926, Franz Osten & Himansu Rai); 5) Sterne/Stars (1959, Konrad Wolf).