Poshek Fu

(Ph.D. Stanford)
Professor History, EALC and Cinema Studies:

Movie industries and popular cultures of China and Hong Kong, globalization, media history, business studies.

217-244-2089
poshekfu@uiuc.edu

Poshek Fu is Professor of History, EALC, and Cinema Studies. His research focuses on the intersection between social and cultural history and Chinese and Hong Kong cinemas.

Publication: My current book project combines cinema studies and business history to examine the little-studied political economy of pan-Chinese commercial cinemas from 1900 to 2000. My edited volume, China Forever: The Diasporic Cinema of Shaw Brothers is forthcoming from University of Illinois Press and Hong Kong University Press. My books include Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas (Stanford 2003), its Chinese translation will by published by Peking University Press, The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (Cambridge, 2000. co-edited with David Desser), and Passivity, Resistance,and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai (Stanford 1993).