#  Shaowen Zhang 

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

Teaching Fellow

 

 

 



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 email <shaowenzhang@g.harvard.edu> 

 



 

 Shaowen’s research focuses on modern Chinese visual studies, film, and media. Her dissertation investigates the social, political, visual, and media-industrial legacy of color from China’s socialist period to the late 1980s, tracing a chromatic historiography of aesthetics, politics and science alongside mediated memories and national construction. Broader fields of interest include East Asian film history, Cold War visual culture, Sino-Russo intellectual exchange, and socialist/post-socialist art and literature. In addition to a few curation projects, she has also written articles and reviews for: *Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Trans Asia Photography*, *Critical Inquiry* and *European Journal of East Asian Studies*.



 

 

 





 

 

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