Dr Yingchi Chu

Dr Chu is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and Murdoch Business School.

Qualifications & memberships:

DipEd, Nanjing, BA(Hons) (Media), PhD Murdoch

Research Fellow of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University

Member of the Australia Chinese Studies Association

Teaching areas:

Media analysis; Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwan media; Documentary films; Contemporay China and the diaspora Chinese

Research areas:

Chinese media, Documentary films, media and citizenship, media and ethnicity, Hong Kong cinema

Research grants:

REGS (2003) - $10,000 (Pedagogy, Media and Citizenship)
REGS (2005) - S13,000 (Media and Ethnicity)
REGS ARC (2005) - $7,000 (Screen Images of Muslims in China)
ARC Discovery (2005) - $75,088 (Chinese Documentary Cinema)
REGS (ARC) (2007) $7,000

Some recent publications:

Books

Chinese Documentaries: From Dogma to Polyphony, London: Routledge, 2007.

Hong Kong Cinema: Colonizer, Motherland and Self, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Papers in Refereed Journals and Chapters in books:

‘The Consumption of Cinema in Contemporary China’ in S. Donald, M. Keane & Y. Hong (eds) Media in China: Consumption, Contest and Crisis (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002), pp. 43-54.

‘Children, Media and the Public Sphere in Chinese Australia’ with S. Donald and A. Witcomb in G. Rawnsley & M. Rawnsley (eds) Political Communications in Greater China: The Construction and Reflection of Identity (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), pp.261-274.

‘Legal Report: citizenship education through a television documentary’ in V. Fong and R. Murphy (eds) Chinese Citizenship: views from the margins (London: Routledge 2006), pp.68-95.

‘Images of Tibet: Documentaries from the US, China and Tibet’, Actes de 8eme Congres de l’AIS, Les signes du monde, Lyon, 2006.

‘The New Chinese Citizen and CETV’, Critical Asian Studies, 39:2(2007), pp. 259-272.

‘The Emergence of Polyphony in Chinese Television Documentaries’ in K. Sen & T. Lee (eds) Political Regimes and the Media in Asia: Continuities, Contradictions and Change. London: Routledge (in press)

'The New Chinese Citizen' in V. Fong and R. Murphy (eds) Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China (London: Routledge 2007), pp.90-101.

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