Education
PhD, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, University of Minnesota
Biography
Hongwei Thorn Chen is a scholar of Chinese and East Asian film and media cultures. His research examines nontheatrical film, media history, and the trajectories of colonial modernity in modern China.
Selected Publications
- “Teaching Chinese Documentaries: A Series Approach,” co-authored with Aleksander Sedzielarz, in Teaching Film from the Peoples’ Republic of China, edited by Emily Wilcox, Zhuoyi Wang, and Hongmei Yu (Modern Language Association Options for Teaching Series, 2024), 127–142.
- “Building China on 16mm: Film Formats and the Institutionalization of Cinematic Portability in 1930s China,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 16.1 (2022), 40–57.
- “Cinemas, Highways, and the Making of Provincial Space: Mobile Screenings in Jiangsu, China, 1933–1937,” Wide Screen 7.1 (2018).
- “Screens,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 10, no. 1 (2016), 26–30.