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 or is forthcoming in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and The Journal of Asian Studies. She teaches courses in Chinese cinema and culture, with focus on transnational perspectives, global genre film theory and history, and the intersections among media, environment, and the (post-)human in modern and contemporary China.
