Dai Jinhua | |
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
Awards | Shanghai Film Critics Awards, for Contributions to Film Theory (2017) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Peking University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Peking University |
Main interests | Film studies and gender studies |
Notable works | Cinema and Desire |
Chinese name | |
Simplified Chinese | 戴锦华 |
Dai Jinhua (Chinese: 戴锦华) is a Chinese feminist cultural critic. She is a professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture, film studies, and gender studies.[1]
She taught at the Beijing Film Academy before assuming professorship at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture and directorship of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Peking University. She has long been engaged in the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Green movement. She is the author of more than ten scholarly monographs. Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Her literary, film and TV commentary have addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong over the last decades.