About

Shaoyi Sun, Ph.D.

Board Member, NETPAC International (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema)

Shaoyi Sun is Research Professor of Film and Media Studies at Shanghai University’s School of Film & TV and Adjunct Professor at NYU Shanghai. He has taught Chinese film, literature, and cultural studies at the University of Southern California, University of California at Irvine, and New York University in Shanghai. He was the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) juror of the 2009 Singapore International Film Festival (Chair), the 2007 Brisbane International Film Festival, the 2001 Hawaii International Film Festival, and a jury member of the 2011 Bengaluru International Film Festival, the 2011 Singapore International Film Festival, the 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival’s International Student Shorts Award and the 2000 Dhaka International Film Festival.

Sun received his Ph.D. in Asian literature and film from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in 1999. He is the author of The Matrix of Cinema: Cinematic Space and Cultural Globalism (Fudan University Press, 2010), Lights! Camera! Kai Shi!: In-Depth Interviews with China’s New Generation of Movie Directors (EastBridge, 2008), The Imagined City: Literary, Filmic, and Visual Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Fudan University Press, 2009),  Structural Transformation of the Media Industry in Asia (co-editor; Shanghai Joint Press, 2009), Global Media Policies: New Perspectives (co-editor; Shanghai Joint Press, 2005) and the Chinese translator of Rey Chow’s Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., 2001). He can be reached at shaoyis@gmail.com.