Chuanhui Meng is a Watson China Initiative postdoctoral research associate in the Department of East Asian Studies at Brown University. Her areas of specialization include modern and contemporary Chinese film and media, with a particular interest in transnational migrations and translations of film genres, border-crossing circulations of film and media in the global 1950s and '60s, as well as ecocritical studies of socialist and post-socialist China. Her current book project examines the formation of a "genre ecology" in socialist Chinese cinema of the 1950s and '60s. It explores the domestic experiments as well as transnational constellation, circulation, and translation of film genres across Cold War geopolitical borders, redefining film genre as an environmental, liminal space that connects the domestic cultural-political ecology, transnational migrations of film forms and criticisms, and the border-crossing circulation of film technology and infrastructure. Her work has been published in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and The Journal of Asian Studies. She teaches courses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and media, with a focus on transnational and comparative perspectives. She also offer courses that examine contemporary issues including environmental challenges, the politics of new media and digital platforms, and changing concepts of the human in post-socialist China.
