Scrycer/Sandbox: Shaoyi | |
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| Occupation | film critic, professor and author |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Subject | Film, Asian cinema |
| Notable works | Lights, Camera, Kaishi!: In-Depth Interviews with China’s New Movie Directors; The Imagined City: Literary, Cinematic, and Visual Shanghai, 1927-1937. |
| Website | |
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Shaoyi Sun is a Chinese film critic, author and professor. He currently teaches at Shanghai University and New York University's satellite campus in Shanghai.
Biography edit
Sun was born and raised in Shanghai, China. In 1991, he received his first MA in Modern Chinese Literature from Nanjing University. In 1997, he received his second MA in Film Studies from the University of Southern California. In 1999, Dr. Sun graduated from the University of Southern California with the Ph.D. disseration: "Urban Landscape and Cultural Imagination: Literature, Film, and Visuality in Semi-Colonial Shanghai 1927-1937."
Sun is known to be an expert on Chinese Film. He
Education edit
1. Ph.D. (1999) Asian Literature & Film, University of Southern California Dissertation Title: Urban Landscape and Cultural Imagination: Literature, Film, and Visuality in Semi-Colonial Shanghai 1927-1937
2. M. A. (1997) Film Studies, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California
3. M. A. (1991) Modern Chinese Literature, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Degree granted at Nanjing University, China
4. B. A. (1983) Chinese Literature and Language, Institute of International Politics, Beijing, China
Selected Bibliography edit
Books
1. Lights, Camera, Kaishi!: In-Depth Interviews with China’s New Movie Directors (in English). Norwalk, CT: EastBridge Press, 2008.
2. The Imagined City: Literary, Cinematic, and Visual Shanghai, 1927-1937 (in Chinese). Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2009.
3. Global Media Policies: New Perspectives (in Chinese; Co-Editor). Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Press, 2005.
Book Chapters
1. “Qiaozhi Lalun yu Bominghan xuepai yanjiu” [“Studies in Jorge Larrain and the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies”] (a 70-page chapter for Houdadushi yu wenhua yanjiu [Post-Metropolis and Cultural Studies], ed. by Bao Yaming). Shanghai: Shanghai jiaoyu chubanshe [Shanghai Education Press], 2005.
2. “Cong wenxue yanjiu dao wenhua pipan” [“From Literary to Cultural Studies”] (a 100-page chapter for Zhu Liyuan’s Xifang meixue tongshi [A Comprehensive History of Western Aesthetics], Vol. 7, Part II : 651-744). Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chuban she [Shanghai Literature and Art Press], 1999.
Selected Translations
1. Richard Jewell. “Shanghai shoushi: Haolaiwu quanqiu shichang shuchu yu niuqu de zhongguo xingxiang” [The Shanghai “Gesture”: Hollywood Exports a “Slanted” Image of China]. Shanghai daxue xuebao [Journal of Shanghai University], No. 2, 2008.
2. Laura Mulvey. “Bainian dianying huimou: liushi de shiguang yu dianying de wanjin fengge” [The Cinema as Centenarian: Passing Time and the Cinema’s “Late Style”]. Dangdai dianying [Contemporary Cinema], No. 5, 2005, No. 128.
3. David Bordwell. “Yi shizheng wei jichu de dianying lilun” [Film Theory as Empirical Inquiry]. Dangdai dianying [Contemporary Cinema], No. 5, 2004, No. 122.
4. Pei Kairui. “Yazhoujiazhi yu jiating jiazhi: tongzhishengfen zai yingxiang zhong de chengshu” [Chris Berry. “Asian Values, Family Values: Film, Video, and Lesbian and Gay Identities”]. Dianying xinshang [Film Appreciation Journal], Jan.-March, 2004, No. 118.
5. Luo Sidian. “Langlaile: Haolaiwu yu zhongguo dianying shichang, 1994-2000” [Stanley Rosen. “The Wolf at the Door: Hollywood and the Film Market in China, 1994-2000”]. Quanqiuhua yu zhongguo yingshi de mingyun [Globalization and the Destiny of Chinese Film and Television], p. 336-60. Beijing: Beijing guangbo xueyuan chubanshe [Beijing Broadcasting Institute Press], 2002.
6. Zhou Lei. Yuanchu de Jiqing: Shijue, Xingyu, Minzuzhi yu Zhongguo dangdai dianying [Rey Chow. Primitive Passions: Visulaity, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema]. Taipei, Taiwan: Yuan-Liou chuban gongsi [Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd.], 2001.
7. Jiao Tong. Erotic Recipes: A Complete Menu for Male Potency Enhancement [Jiao Tong. Wanqun zhuangyang shipu]. Kobenhavn & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2000.
8. Huang Weizhong. “Nanyi taodun de kunjing: A Q Zhengzhuan de xushuzhe jiqi huayu” [Matin Weizhong Huang. “The Inescapable Predicament: The Narrator and His Discourse in The True Story of Ah Q]. Shanghai wenlun [Shanghai Literary Theory], 1991 : 6.
Selected Articles
1. “Dianying ‘zhonglaiwu’: quanqiu yingxiang bantu de chonggou?” [The Cinematic ‘Chillywood’: The Re-structuring of the Global Film Landscape?]. In Dianying yishu [Film Art], No. 4, 2009.
2. “Meiguo de xuefu dianying jiaoyu” [“Film Studies in American Universities”]. In Beijing dianying xueyuan xuebao [Journal of Beijing Film Academy], No. 4, 2009.
3. “Niandu baogao: 2008nian zhongguo dianying de haiwai shichang he pingjia” [“The Year 2008: The Overseas Market and Appreciation of Chinese Cinema”]. In Dangdai dianying [Contemporary Cinema], No. 5, 2009.
4. “Dianying yanjiu de lishi zhuanxiang: lilun yu fangfa” [“The ‘Historical Turn’ of Film Studies: Theory and Methods”]. In Dangdai dianying [Contemporary Cinema], No. 4, 2009.
5. “Yazhou chuanmeiye jiegou bianqian zhi fansi” [“Reflections on the Structural Transformation of the Asian Media Industry”] (Co-authored with Zheng Han & Jin Guanjun). In Zhongguo wenhua chanye pinglun [Commentary on the Cultural Industry in China, Vol. 9], Shanghai People’s Press, 2009.
6. “Kua diyuxing yu wudiyu kongjian: quanqiuhua yujing zhong de huayu shangye dianying” [“Translocality and Non-Locality: Globalization and Chinese-Language Blockbusters”]. In Chuanbo yu shehui xuekan [The Chinese Journal of Communication and Society], No. 7 (2009).
7. “Cong Nickelodeon dao Megaplex: yingxiang xiaofei kongjian yu meiguo dianying yuanxian” [“From Nickelodeon to Megaplex: The Space of Image Consumption and the American Film Circuit”]. In 2008 Dianying chanye yanjiu [The Year 2008: The Film Industry of China], China Film Press, 2008.
8. “Dituobang chengshi yu yanshen de dianying shikong” [“The Dystopian City and the Extended Time and Space of Cinema”]. In Shanghai wenhua [Shanghai Culture], No. 6, 2008.
9. “Guozu dianying yu yingxiang de kuadiyu xiaofei” [“National Cinema and the Transnational Consumption of Cinematic Images”]. In Hu & Dong (eds.) Qiuyi yu qutong [Differences and Affinities], Xinan shifan daxue chubanshe [Southwestern Normal University Press], 2008.
10. “Dianying lilun yu dianying piping: wenhua zhuanxing yu zhishifenzi de juese wenti” [“Film Theory and Criticism: Cultural Transformation and the Role of Intellectuals”]. In Shanghai daxue xuebao [Journal of Shanghai University], No. 3, 2008.
11. “Wu diyu kongjian yu huaijiu zhengzhi: hou jiuqi xianggang dianying de shanghai xiangxiang” [“Non-Locality and the Politics of Nostalgia: Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema’s Shanghai Imagination”]. In Wenyi yanjiu [Literature and Art Studies], No. 11, 2007.
12. “Meiguo de xueshu guifan yu xueshu chengxin” [“Scholarship and Plagiarism in American Institutions”]. In Dangdai dianying [Contemporary Cinema], No. 4, 2007.
13. “Xiaofei xiandaixing: lao shanghai guanggao yu sanshi niandai moden meng” [“Consuming Modernity: Shanghai Fantasies in 1930s’ Advertisements”]. In Shanghai wenhua [Shanghai Culture], No. 1, 2007.
14. “Retrospect and Prospect: One Hundred Years of Chinese Cinema.” In Osian’s Cinemaya: The Asian Film Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2006).
15. “Singing in Electric Shadows: A Survey of Chinese Musicals.” In Roger Garcia ed. Asia Sings: A Survey of Asian Musical Films. Udine, Italy: Centro Expressioni Cinematografiche, 2006.
16. “Quanli geju zhong de pushixing celue: haolaiwu yu zuowei liyi xiangguanzhe de zhongguo dianying” [“Toward a Strategic ‘Universality’: Hollywood and Chinese Cinema as a ‘Stakeholder’”]. In Dianying yishu [Film Art], No. 5, 2006.
17. “Shizhuang shanghai: xingbie zhengzhi yu shenti quanli” [“Fashioning Shanghai: Sexual Politics and the Body Power”]. In Shanghai wenhua [Shanghai Culture], No. 3, 2006.
18. “In Search of the Erased Half: Suzhou River, Lunar Eclipse, and the Sixth Generation Filmmakers of China” (In 100 Years of Chinese Cinema: A Generational Dialogue, eds. Haili Kong and John A. Lent. EastBridge Press, 2006).
19. “’All Artists Are Narcissistic:’ An Interview with Director Lou Ye” (In 100 Years of Chinese Cinema: A Generational Dialogue, eds. Haili Kong and John A. Lent. EastBridge Press, 2006).
20. “Xushu de zhengzhi: zuoyi dianying yu haolaiwu de shanghai xiangxiang” [“The Politics of Narration: Chinese Leftist Cinema and Hollywood’s Imagination of Shanghai”]. In Dangdai dianying [Contemporary Cinema], No. 6, 2005.
21. “Zai yingxiang de kuaguo liudong yu xiaofei zhong lijie zhongguo dianying yu yazhou dianying” [Understanding Chinese and Asian Cinemas in the Context of Transnational Flow and Consumption of Visual Images]. In Shijie dianying [World Cinema], No. 6, 2005.
22. “Xinmeiti yu zaoqi dianying” [“New Media and Early Cinema”]. In Chen Xihe eds. Dangdai dianying lilun xin zouxiang [New Trends in Contemporary Film Theories]. Beijing: Culture and Art Publishing House, 2005.
23. “Zhidu zhuanxing yu zhengce chongtu: dangqian guoji chuanmei fazhan de jibendian” [“Paradigm Change and Policy Conflict: Key Issues in Contemporary Media Policies”]. In Xiandai Chuanbo [Journal of Modern Communication], No. 4, 2005.
24. “Xinmeiti de xushu: fuchen zai yingxiangku zhong de qianmian chengshi” [“New Media and Narration: The Multi-layered City Floating in the Visual Database”]. In Shanghai Wenhua [Shanghai Culture], No. 1, 2005; also in Meng Jian & Stefan Friedrich, eds. Tuxiang shidai [The Era of the Visual: Theoretical Analysis of Visual Culture Communication]. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2005.
25. “Cong Shencha dao fenlei: Jiedu meiguo dianying fenji zhidu” [“From Censorship to Classification: Interpreting Hollywood Film Rating System”]. In Shijie dianying [World Cinema], No. 3 & 4, 2005; also in Lisa Lu, Li Yizhong, eds. Geyang guanjing: Haolaiwu jingxiang zongheng [Looking Across the Ocean: The Mirrored Image of Hollywood]. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2004.
26. “Shichang zhuanxing zhong de yingxiang chongzhu: xin meiti yu wenhua piping” [“Towards a Re-orientation of Visual Images: New Media and Its Cultural Implications”]. In Meng Jian, eds. Chongtu yu hexie: Quanqiuhua yu yazhou yingshi [Conflict and Harmony: Globalization and Asian Film & TV]. Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe [Fudan Univ. Press], 2003.
27. “Meiguo dianying chanye yunzuotizhi, jizhi ji quanqiucelue” [Operational Structures and Global Strategies of the American Film Industry]. In Jin Guanjun, eds. Quanqiuhua shiye: Chuanmei chanye jinji bijiao yanjiu [Global Perspective: Comparative Studies of Media Economics]. Shanghai: Xuelin chubanshe [Scholar Forest Press], 2002.
28. “Western Mirror and Chinese Identification: Shadow Magic, an Infant’s Problematic Birth” (In both English and Chinese). Cinedossier: The 37th Golden Horse Award. Taipei: 2001.
29. “Global Image Consumption and Chinese Cinema: Random Thoughts on Joan Chen’s Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl.” (In both English and Chinese) Cinedossier: The 35th Golden Horse Award. Taipei: 1999.
30. “Women and the Labyrinth of History: Reflections on The Soong Sisters.” (In both English and Chinese) Cinedossier: The 34th Golden Horse Award. Taipei: 1998.
31. “Dushi kongjian yu zhongguo minzuzhuyi: Jiedu sanshi niandai zhongguo zuoyi dianying” [“Urban Space and Chinese Nationalism: Re-reading Chinese Leftist Films of the 1930s”]. Shanghai wenhua [Shanghai Culture], 1996 : 3.
32. “Tongsu wenhua, yishixingtai, huayubaquan: Bominghan xuepai yanjiu” [“Popular Culture, Ideology, and the Hegemony of Discourse: Reflections on the Birmingham School”]. Dangdai [Con-Temporary Monthly], Vol. 114, October 1995 : 68-89 (also in Qingxiang [Tendency Quarterly], No. 5, 1995 : 117-33.