
Jinyan Zeng
Postdoctoral fellow

I joined the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in July 2021. My research focuses on gender and sexuality, culture and politics, intellectual identity and social activism, and ethnicity, with particular emphasis on China. I received my PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 2017 (HK SAR), working as the 2017 Oak Human Rights Fellow (film and photography) at Colby College (USA), and the 2020 Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa (Israel). My BA in Economics was completed at the People’s University of China, Beijing.
During my fellowship at the Centre, I focus on writing (non-Han) female authorship and feminist aesthetics of social activism in China, and expanding my expertise in ethnicity, culture, and politics.
Publications
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Queering Community : Affect of Visuality in the Sinosphere
Jinyan Zeng
(2023) Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Spring 2023
Journal articleFrom Women’s Space to Gendering the Public Sphere: Ai Xiaoming’s Practice of Everyday Life and Activism
Jinyan Zeng, Xibai Xu
(2023) Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality
Book chapterDesiring Feminism in Chinese Documentary
Jinyan Zeng
(2022) Chinese Independent Cinema Observer , p.142-178
Journal articleThe Filmmaker as Feminist
Jinyan Zeng
(2022) Chinese Cinema Anthology [tentative title]
Book chapterWords Against the Wind : A Conversation with Liu Wai Tong
Jinyan Zeng, Wai Tong Liu
(2022) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 6 p.133-143
Journal article (comment)《夜鶯不是唯一的歌喉》,其後:對話唐丹鴻
Jinyan Zeng, Danhong Tang
(2021) 今天 [Today] , p.37-228
Journal article (comment)Revisiting Minjian : A Conversation with Sebastian Veg
Jinyan Zeng, Sebastian Veg
(2021) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 6 p.177-183
Journal articleChinese Feminism under (Self-) Censorship : Practice and Knowledge Production
Jinyan Zeng
(2021) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 6 p.166-169
Journal article (comment)Documentary Film, Gender, and Activism in China : A Conversation with Ai Xiaoming
Jinyan Zeng
(2020) Film Quarterly, 74 p.45-50
Journal articleOutcry and Whisper (CN, EN, FR, DE & KO)
Jinyan Zeng, Wenhai Huang, Trish McAdam
(2020)
Artistic work逆風說的話:對話廖偉棠
Jinyan Zeng, Wai Tong Liu
(2020) Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies , p.42-132
Journal articleEpidemic Control in China : A Conversation with Liu Shao-Hua
Jinyan Zeng, Shao-Hua Liu
(2020) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 5 p.40-53
Journal articleJiabiangou Elegy : A Conversation with Ai Xiaoming
Jinyan Zeng, Xiaoming Ai
(2019) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 4 p.131-141
Journal articleAutobiography, Exile, and Gender : A Conversation with Ying Liang
Jinyan Zeng, Liang Ying
(2019) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 4 p.129-137
Journal articleHooligan Sparrow : A Conversation with Wang Nanfu
Jinyan Zeng, Jia Tan
(2019) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 4 p.126-133
Journal articleImagining the Digitalisation of Politics : A Conversation with Wang Lixiong
Jinyan Zeng, Lixiong Wang
(2018) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 3 p.67-79
Journal articleWe the Workers : A Conversation with Huang Wenhai
Jinyan Zeng, Wenhai Huang
(2018) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 3 p.67-75
Journal articleAi Weiwei on Art, Activism and Human Rights
Jinyan Zeng, Weiwei Ai
(2018) The China Story
Journal articleThe Genesis of Citizen Intelligentsia in Digital China : Ai Xiaoming's Practices of Identity and Activism
Jinyan Zeng
(2017)
DissertationVisualizing Truth-Telling in Ai Xiaoming’s Documentary Activism
Jinyan Zeng
(2017) Studies in Documentary Film, 11 p.99-184
Journal articleBook Review: Translating Feminism in China: Gender, Sexuality and Censorship by Zhongli Yu
Jinyan Zeng
(2016) China Information, 30 p.16-115
ReviewThe Politics of Emotion in Grassroots Feminist Protests : A Case Study of Xiaoming Ai’s Nude Breasts Photography Protest Online
Jinyan Zeng
(2014) Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online, 15 p.41-52
Journal articleA Conversation with Zeng Jinyan
Elisa Nesossi, Jinyan Zeng
(2013) The China Story
Journal article (comment)