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About Jing Li
I hold a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Stony Brook University. My research interests include film theory, Chinese cinema, contemporary Chinese literature, rural cultural studies, gender studies, and spirituality studies. My dissertation, Filming Villages: The Representation of Rural China in Chinese Independent Cinema since 2000, examines how independent filmmakers create aesthetic spaces for rural experience while addressing broader questions of rural culture. Before pursuing my doctoral studies in the United States, I earned an M.A. from Nanjing University and worked as an editor for publishing houses and an art museum in Shanghai. At the College of William & Mary, I have taught courses on modern Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, and cultural studies.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jing:
December 15, 2025
Politics of Tranquility
Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddh…
October 21, 2025
Literati Lenses
Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China’s art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting has been an enduring source of i…
September 20, 2025
Going to the Countryside
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth ofte…