Professor, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities
Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1997
Curriculum Vitae
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My research focuses on literary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan—in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts. I inquire how texts and images form and manipulate our perception of space and history. My current research projects address new media in urban spaces, and cinephilia in the PRC. I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. I founded the UW Summer Program in Chinese Film History and Criticism at the Beijing Film Academy (2005-11) and have served as the president of the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature.
Awards and Honors
The Joseph Levenson book prize (post-1900 category), The Association for Asian Studies, 2012
Guggenheim fellow (in Film, Video, and Radio Studies), The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2013
Research
Selected Research
- Yomi Braester, James Tweedie, eds. Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Networks in East Asia. Hong Kong University Press: 2010.
- Yomi Braester. Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract. Duke University Press: 2010.
- Yomi Braester. Witness against History: Literature, Film and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China. Stanford University Press: 2003.
- Yomi Braester. Book project on Beijing in new media.
- Yomi Braester. Book project on cinephilia in the People's Republic of China.
Research Advised
- Katherine Morrow. "Urban and Rural Encounters in Chinese Postsocialist Film and Media." Diss., 2019
- Yizhong Gu."The Myth of Voluntary Death: The Representation of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in the Maoist Films (1949-1976)." Diss., 2017.
- Laura Eshleman. "Pacific Crossings: Travel, Writing, and Literary Transition in the Sino-American Nineteenth Century." Diss., 2016.
- Xiqing Zheng. "Borderless Fandom and Contemporary Popular Cultural Scene in Chinese Cyberspace." Diss., 2016.
- Ching-Sue Kuik. "Un/Becoming Chinese: Huaqiao, The Non-perishable Sojourner Reinvented, and Alterity of Chineseness." Diss., 2013.
- Zhuoyi Wang. "Revolutionizing the Silver Screen: A User-Centered Discursive Study of Early PRC Cinema: 1949-59." Diss., 2009.
- Lihong Tang. "Nonsensical speech: speech acts in post-socialist Chinese culture." Diss., 2008.
- Qian He. "Expose and Punish: Trial by Moving Images in Revolutionary China." Diss., 2020.
Courses Taught
Winter 2026
Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
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Affiliations
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Professional Affiliations
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Beijing Fiilm Academy. Professional organizations: AAS; ACLA; ACCL; MLA; SCMS.