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My research focus lies within film and media co-productions. Valuing their co-constitutive nature, I see co-productions as special contact zones where multiple entry points for understanding Chinese-language film and media intersected in different times and places within and beyond the territorial boundaries of the People’s Republic of China. I also wish to locate the inter-related connections among several research areas, such as film censorship, cultural industry and policy, media technology and cultural geography, the cultural logic of neoliberal post-socialism, and Asian environmental humanities.

Taking the above multiple research entry points into consideration, my proposed Ph.D. project borrows the notion of “rescaling” from critical human geography to re-examine contemporary Chinese film and media co-production practices from more (trans)local perspectives and problematize the scales utilized in existing film co-production and transnational cinema studies. In doing so, I hope to contribute a more comprehensive framework that can help better captured the dynamics and contingency of film co-productions. This study also plans to develop a new critical scale that situates Chinese film and media co-productions in the uneven production of space in neoliberal post-socialist China.