Mia Yinxing Liu
Assistant Professor, Visual Studies Program, CCA

TOPIC: "Early Spring in February: Reframing the Problems of Utopia in Chinese Cinema in the 1960s"

Mia Yinxing Liu is Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies department at California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, CA. She received her Ph. D. in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2013, and previously was Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at Bates College. Her first book is The Literati Lens: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema (1950-1979) (University of Hawai'i Press, 2019). She also published on Chinese photography, for example, "The Allegorical Landscape: Lang Jingshan's Photography in Context" (Archives of Asian Arts, 2015). Her research interests focus on cinema, photography, optical devices, the history of visual apparatuses and other issues of media in the history of Chinese art and visual culture.