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Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the author of Going to the Countryside: The Rural in Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965 (The University of Michigan Press, 2020). Taking up an interdisciplinary and transmedia approach, her publications have covered topics in twentieth-century Chinese literature, film, and cultural studies. She is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled “China at Work: Revolutionizing the Culture of Work in Contemporary China”. She received her PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University, and her research has been supported by Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation Junior Scholar Grant and General Research Fund from the Research Grants Council in Hong Kong.