Faculty and Staff
Poshek Fu
Professor of History
Poshek Fu is Professor of History, Modern China, culture and society of Hong Kong, war and popular culture in East Asia, cultural globalization, and pan-Chinese cinemas.
Current Projects:
My current research focuses on a history of the political economy of pan-Chinese cinemas (1930 to 1980) and on the meanings and definitions of manhood in the changing contexts of twentieth-century China.
Publications:
China Forever: The Diasporic Cinema of Shaw Brothers (Editor, University of Illinois Press, 2008)
Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas (Stanford University Press, 2003)
Translated into Chinese as Shuangcheng gushi: Zaoqi Zhongguo dianying de wenhua zhengzhi (Peking University Press, 2007)
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (Co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia (Co-editor, University of Michigan Press, 2000)
Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai (Stanford University Press, 1993).
Professional Services:
Editorial Board, Cinema Journal (Society of Cinema and Media Studies)
Series editor, “Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific” (University of Illinois Press)