Robert Chi is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (Harvard University) and has previously taught at SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) as well as Tunghai University in Taiwan.
Professor Chi’s teaching and research focus on Chinese-language cinemas, including those of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. His recent and ongoing research covers topics such as cinema and public memory, globalization and locality, genres including Chinese opera films and martial arts films, and the cinema of Shaw Brothers. His publications include the following:
“Dalu dianying zhong de Taiwan” [Taiwan in mainland Chinese cinema], Zhongwai wenxue [Chung wai literary monthly] 407 (34.11; April 2006): 53-70.
“Fotografia, Memoria e Giustizia: La Strage di Nanchino del 1937”, Dopo la Violenza: Costruzioni di Memoria nel Mondo Contemporaneo, ed. Alessandro Triulzi (Napoli: L’Ancora del Mediterraneo, 2005): 53-74.
“A World of Sadness?”, Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations, ed. E. Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang (Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2004): 65-89.
“The Red Detachment of Women: Resenting, Regendering, Remembering”, Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes, ed. Chris Berry (London: BFI, 2003): 152-159.
“The New Taiwanese Documentary”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 15.1 (Spring 2003): 146-196.
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