Overview
Dr. Jinhua Li’s research interests are contemporary Chinese language cinemas and their transnational articulations of identity, gender, and cultural politics. She is especially intrigued by how cinematic texts mediate the dynamics between the national and the transnational, the local and the global, and the mercurial dichotomies. Her publication records include articles in leading academic journals, book chapters, textbooks, dictionary, and encyclopedia entries. She has taught courses in Chinese and East Asian cinemas, transnational film remakes, Chinese and East Asian literatures, martial arts cinema, Chinese language, Asian American popular culture, film studies, English and rhetorics, and led study abroad programs to China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Dr. Li serves as the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Asian Studies Development Program Alumni Association since 2024 and the Executive Committee Secretary in the China-US Alliance of College Teachers of Chinese (CUACTC) since 2024. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese for Academic and Occupational Purposes since 2021.
Dr. Jinhua Li has a B.A. in English and an M.A. for English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Purdue University, West Lafayette campus. Jinhua Li was a Full Professor of Chinese Studies and Language and Chair of the Interdisciplinary/International Studies Program at the University of North Carolina Asheville prior to joining Duke Kunshan University.