Fields of Interest
Biography
(Belinda) Qian He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media (CLCM) at the University of Washington. She is generally interested in historical and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of East Asian cinema, photography, art, and display culture, associated with atrocity, collective violence, and witnessing. Her dissertation is tentatively titled Spectacular Antagonism: Class Struggle, Exposure, and Cinema as Show Trial in China, 1925-1985. She has published on film theory, animation, teen film, politics of childhood/memory, the Cold War aesthetics, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution both in English and Chinese. Her essays have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, The China Review, Film Art, Beijing Film Academy Journal, China Book Review, and edited volumes. She is co-organizing the Moving Images Research Group-Graduate Research Cluster (MIRG-GRC) with Ungsan Kim and Sarah Ross.