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Lingzhen Wang is Professor of East Asian Studies and affiliated faculty in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. She also serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Nanjing University. Her scholarship spans transnational feminist theory and practice, film history and aesthetics, Cold War politics and left-wing traditions, modern Chinese literature, and Chinese women’s cinema. 

She is the author of Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China (2021) and Personal Matters: Women’s Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China (2004). Her edited and co-edited publications include Other Genders, Other Sexualities: Chinese Differences (2013), Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts (2011), Years of Sadness: Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi (2009), and the Chinese-language volumes Chinese Sex/Gender: Historical Differences (2016), Gender and Chinese Cinema (2012), and Gender, Theory and Culture (2010).