Dai Jinhua

Dai Jinhua (戴锦华) is a Chinese feminist cultural critic. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture, film studies, and gender studies.

She was born in 1959, Beijing and educated in the Department of Chinese Literature, Peking University. She taught at the Beijing Film Academy before assuming professorship at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture and directorship of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Peking University. She has long been engaged in the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Green movement. She is the author of more than ten scholarly monographs. Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Her literary, film and TV commentary have addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong over the last decades.

Biography

• 1959 Born in Beijing
• 1982 Graduated from Department of Chinese Literature, Peking University
• 1987-1992 Lecturer, Department of Filmic Literature, Beijing Film Institute
• 1992-1993 Associate Professor, Department of Filmic Literature, Beijing Film Institute
• 1993-1997 Associate Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University
• 1996- present Adjunct Professor, Ohio State University (graduate program)
• 1997- present Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and Language, Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University
• 2009- present Adjunct Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

Writings

• Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, eds. Jing Wang and Tani E. Barlow. London: Verso, 2002.

References

• Resident Fellows - Dai Jinhua. Townsend Center for the Humanities at University of California, Berkeley. Accessed 2011-02-01.
• Biographical dictionary of Chinese women, Volume 2. Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Wing-chung Ho. M.E. Sharpe, 2003. pp.123-125.