Donations to the Center for Chinese Studies support a wide range of programs which include lectures, large-scale symposia and smaller conferences on key issues, as well as research on the People's Republic of China and the Chinese societies of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
In addition, CCS provides fellowships and awards for UC Berkeley current and entering graduate students. Your contribution will support students who do field work for their degree, attend conferences to present papers, and engage in research-related travel.
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The Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies
The Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies was established with a gift from Pamela P. Fong and her family that was matched by the Hewlett Foundation to support the work of an eminent UC Berkeley faculty member whose research interests focus on China and/or US-China relations and whose work is relevant to one of the following areas: judicial system and law; Asian-American studies; economics and business, health care, the environment, and/or education. The Chair rotates among these areas every five years.
(George Berticevich © 2023. Courtesy of the the artist. The painted backdrop is from May's Photo Studio, San Francisco, Chinatown, c. 1923. Painted by Mock Kug Ming, theatrical and photo studio set designer.)
Chairholder
Weihong Bao | Contact Weihong
Weihong Bao is Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies and an Associate Professor of Film and Media & East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley. She has published widely on comparative media history and theory, media and environment, early cinema, war and modernity, affect theory, propaganda theory and practice, and Chinese language cinema of all periods and regions. Her book Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) received an honorable mention for the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize in 2016. Her more recent work explores the relationship between medium and environment, by engaging intellectual history, political theory, cultural anthropology, and comparative media theory. On this subject she has co-edited two special issues on “Media/Climates” (Representations) and “Medium/Environment” (Critical Inquiry); she is also completing a new book, “Background Matters: Set Design Thinking and The Art of Environment.”
She has held fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Germany, the University of Melbourne, Australia, Freie Universität Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, the National Humanities Center, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities. She is the editor-in-chief for The Journal of Chinese Cinemas and co-edits the “film theory in media history” book series published by Amsterdam University Press. She also serves on the editorial board for Representations, Discourse, Journal of Visual Culture and Feminist Media History.
Also Learn more about Pamela and Kenneth Fong Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients.