About Julia Keblinska

I am fellow in OSU's Global Arts and Humanities Society of Fellows, working on a comparative project about East Asian/Eastern European socialisms. My (soon to be) "new book," is titled "New Era, New Media: Emerging Media Ecologies in 1980s China." It is a media archaeology of the early postsocialist period in China (1978-1989) that analyzes print culture, television, and cinema as a transitional media ecology. At OSU, I am teaching a class on East Asian media history and working on both the "New Era, New Media" manuscript and my developing my next project, "Revolutionary Skeuomorphs," a study of new media as they interact with socialist nostalgias in contemporary China and Eastern Europe.

Julia Keblinska is a postdoc at the East Asian Studies Center at the Ohio State University specializing in Chinese media history and comparative socialisms.

NBN Episodes hosted by Julia:

Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

December 24, 2023

Cinematic Guerrillas

Jie Li
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Welcome to the latest episode of New Books in Chinese Studies! I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and today I will be talking today to Jie Li, about her…

Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

December 11, 2023

Laws of the Land

Tristan G. Brown
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and I am speaking today to Prof. Tristan Brown about his …

Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)

October 29, 2023

Fear of Seeing

Mingwei Song
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

I am talking today to Mingwei Song about his new book, Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia UP, 2023). The book is a sweepi…

Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

October 14, 2023

On the Edge

Margaret Hillenbrand
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Margaret Hillenbrand’s On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia UP, 2023) examines the negative cultural forms that have emerged in response…

Julia C. Schneider, "Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)" (Brill, 2017)

September 15, 2023

Nation and Ethnicity

Julia C. Schneider
Hosted by Julia Keblinska
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Julia Schneider’s Nation & Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s), published with Brill in 2017, is a…

Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho, "Material Contradictions in Mao's China" (U Washington Press, 2022)

February 13, 2023

Material Contradictions in Mao's China

Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

I'm joined today by Profs. Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Ho to talk about their new edited volume, Material Contradictions in Mao’s China, published …

Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)

December 16, 2022

The Chinese Atlantic

Sean Metzger
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical fra…

Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)

December 15, 2022

Artful Subversion

Ying-Chen Peng
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Ying-chen Peng’s Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making is a beautiful new volume on late Qing imperial art practice from Yale Univers…

Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)

September 30, 2022

Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting

Juliane Noth
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Juliane Noth’s Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Paintings, coming very soon from the Harvard University Asia Center (2022), tracks a relative…

Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

June 25, 2022

Cultural Revolution Manuscripts

Lena Henningsen
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Lena Henningsen’s Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) is a study of shouchao…

Yi Gu, "Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting" (Harvard UP, 2021)

June 10, 2022

Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting

Yi Gu
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Yi Gu's Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting (Harvard UP, 2020) examines the rise of open-air painting in 20th-century China, showing how this…

Joshua Neves, "Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy" (Duke UP, 2020)

June 3, 2022

Underglobalization

Joshua Neves
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Joshua Neves’ Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (Duke University Press, 2020) examines the interplay of conte…

Corey Byrnes, "Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges" (Columbia UP, 2019)

May 19, 2022

Fixing Landscape

Corey Byrnes
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Corey Byrnes’ Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press, 2019) is a work of considerable historical…

Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)

March 8, 2022

Internationalist Aesthetics

Edward Tyerman
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

I am joined for my interview with Edward Tyerman by Ed Pulford, another host on our channel. Together, we discuss Edward’s new book, Internationalist …

Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

February 14, 2022

The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art

Peggy Wang
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking to Peggy Wang about her new book, The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art (Minnesota Universit…

Shaoling Ma, "The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906" (Duke UP, 2021)

December 6, 2021

The Stone and the Wireless

Shaoling Ma
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

In this episode, I interview Shaoling Ma, professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS about her new book, The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating C…

Laurence Coderre, "Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China" (Duke UP, 2021)

October 19, 2021

Newborn Socialist Things

Laurence Coderre
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Laurence Coderre’s Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke UP, 2021) is an exciting book that considers Chinese socialist culture …

Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)

October 5, 2021

Urban Horror

Erin Y. Huang
Hosted by Julia Keblinska

Erin Y. Huang’s Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke UP, 2020) is an expansive and ambitious book that explores …