Jianying Zha is a writer, media critic, and China representative of the India China Institute at The New School. She is the author of Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China and China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture, both published by The New Press. She is also the author of fiction and nonfiction books in Chinese, including The Eighties, an award-winning cultural retrospective of the 1980s in China. Zha has published widely in both Chinese and English for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Dushu, and Wanxiang. She lives in Beijing and New ...
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Jianying Zha is a writer, media critic, and China representative of the India China Institute at The New School. She is the author of Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China and China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture, both published by The New Press. She is also the author of fiction and nonfiction books in Chinese, including The Eighties, an award-winning cultural retrospective of the 1980s in China. Zha has published widely in both Chinese and English for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Dushu, and Wanxiang. She lives in Beijing and New York.
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A Conversation With Jianying Zha
Jianying Zha will address China’s 20th century struggle for modernity, its recent economic transformation, and the country’s reemergence as a great power. Using personal stories and photographs relevant to her topic, Zha will focus on new trends in China’s pop culture (media, public debates, censorship); tensions and contradictions in current politics and society; and questions about China’s future.
