Poshek Fu

Poshek Fu

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316 Gregory Hall
(217)-333-8860
poshekfu@illinois.edu
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Additional Campus Affiliations

Biography

Professor of History

Professor of Asian American Studies

Professor of Law

Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, 2010-2013

Research Interests

  • modern China and Hong Kong, Cold War Culture, Media history, War and Society, US-China cultural relations

Research Description

Current research focuses on the battle between China, Taiwan, and the US in winning hearts and minds of ethnic Chinese in Cold War Asia

Education

  • Ph.D, Stanford University, 1989

Distinctions / Awards

  • AMIAS Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • Fulbright Scholar

Grants

  • Fulbright Research Scholar
  • Mellon Faculty Grant
  • John D. and Catherine MacArthur Fellowship

Selected Publications

Books

Fu, Poshek Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945 Stanford Stanford University Press 1993.
Fu, Poshek The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity, 1900-1997 (Co-editor) New York Cambridge University Press 2000.
Fu, Poshek Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas Stanford Stanford University Press 2008.
Fu, Poshek China Forever: Shaw Brothers and the Making of A Diasporic Cinema （Editor) Urbana University of Illinois Press 2008.
Fu, Poshek 双城故事:早期中国电影的文化政治 Beijing 北京大学出版社 Peking University Press 2008.
Fu, Poshek 中国在香港：邵氏电影 (合编） Hong Kong 牛津出版社 Oxford University Press 2011.
Fu, Poshek 灰色上海，1937-1945：中國文人的隱退，反抗與合作 北京 三联书店 2012.

Journal Articles

Japanese Occupation, “Shanghai Exile, Postwar Hong Kong Cinema China Quarterly 194 2008, p. 380-394.
Trans-Pacific Cultural Connections: University of Illinois and China Journal of American-East Asian Relations 24 2017.
More than Just Entertaining: Cinematic Containment and Asia's Cold War in Hong Kong, 1949-1959 Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 30 2 2018.
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, p. 47-62.
香港国语电影的黄金时代：“电懋”“邵氏”与冷战 当代电影 7 2019.
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, p. 67-82.

Magazine Articles

Cinema, Cold war, and Hong Kong (“Masters and the Movies Series") Perspectives on History (AHA) 2012, p. 15-18.

Book Contributions

Cold War and Mid-twentieth-Century Hong Kong Cinema Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinema Cold War and Mid-twentieth-Century Hong Kong Cinema New York Oxford University Press 2013.