Biography
Professor of History, 2004-Present
Professor of Asian American Studies
Vice President, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, 2019-Present
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Spring 2016
Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, 2010-2013
Research Interests
Research Description
He is completing a book manuscript on the cultural cold war in Hong Kong (under contract with Oxford University Press), particularly on the fight between China, Taiwan, and the US in winning hearts and minds of ethnic Chinese across Asia.
Education
Ph.D, Stanford University, 1989
Grants
- Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship
- Fulbright Research Scholar
- Mellon Faculty Grant
- John D. and Catherine MacArthur Fellowship
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding Paper Award, Academy of Hong Kong Studies, 2019
- Distinguished Humanities Lecture Series, Renmin University (Beijing), 2018
- AMIAS Fellow and Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2014-2015
- Visiting Zhijiang Professor of Humanities, East China Normal University, 2011-2017
Courses Taught
Professor Fu teaches classes on modern China, cultural history of Shanghai, Hong Kong cinema and popular culture, US-China cultural relations, and Global East Asia.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, History
Intellectual Property
Journal Articles
- "文化冷战在香港：中国学生周报与亚洲基金会 (Part 1)." 二十一世纪 （Chinese University of Hong Kong) 173， (2019): 47-62.
- "文化冷战在香港：中国学生周报与亚洲基金会 (Part 2)." 二十一世纪 （Chinese University of Hong Kong) 174 (2019): 67-82.
- "香港国语电影的黄金时代：“电懋”“邵氏”与冷战." 当代电影 (2019):
- "More than Just Entertaining: Cinematic Containment and Asia's Cold War in Hong Kong, 1949-1959." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 30.2 (2018):
- "Trans-Pacific Cultural Connections: University of Illinois and China." Journal of American-East Asian Relations (2017):
- "Japanese Occupation, “Shanghai Exile, Postwar Hong Kong Cinema." China Quarterly 194 (2008): 380-394.
Magazine Articles
- "Cinema, Cold war, and Hong Kong (“Masters and the Movies Series")." Perspectives on History (AHA). 16 Apr. 2012: 15-18.
Highlighted Publications
Fu, P., & Yip, M.-F. (Eds.) (2019). The Cold War and Asian Cinemas. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429425202
Fu, P. (Ed.) (2008). China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema. (Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific). University of Illinois Press.
Fu, P. (2003). Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas. Stanford University Press.
Fu, P. (1993). Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945. Stanford University Press.
Recent Publications
Fu, P.-S., Yameng, Q., & Yip, M.-F. (2025). Pro-Communist Mandarin Cinema in Cold War Hong Kong. In T. Hon, & Y. Chan (Eds.), The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War (pp. 169-194). (Asian Cities). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463722483_ch07
Fu, P. S., & Yip, M. F. (2023). Ambivalence of entertainment: the Cold War and pro-communist Mandarin cinema. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 24(6), 1014-1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2265694
Fu, P. (2023). Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073763.001.0001
Fu, P. (2020). 顺流与逆流: 重写香港电影史 (与苏涛合编）. Peking University Press.
Fu, P. (2019). Entertainment and Propaganda: Hong Kong Cinema and Asia’s Cold War. In P. Fu, & M.-F. Yip (Eds.), The Cold War and Asian Cinemas (pp. 238-262). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429425202-13