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Dr. Qingyang Freya Zhou<\/strong>
\nResearch Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
\nOffice<\/strong>: Run Run Shaw Heritage House, G.06
\nEmail<\/strong>: freyaqz@hku.hk<\/p>\n

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
\nBA, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Qingyang Freya Zhou (she\/her) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in German, with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2026. Her first monograph in progress, Divisive Kinship: The Long Cold War in Korean German Film and Literature<\/em>, examines literary and cinematic representations of national division across East\/West Germany and North\/South Korea from 1900 to the present. Freya has published two award-winning journal articles on Asian diasporic cinema in Seminar<\/em> and German Studies Review<\/em> and co-edited the anthology Charting Asian German Film History<\/em> (Camden House, 2025). For more of her writing, see qingyangfreyazhou.com.<\/p>\n

RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/strong>
\nAsian German Studies
\nKorean Film and Literature
\nCultural History of the Cold War
\nMigration and Diaspora Studies
\nGender and Sexuality Studies<\/p>\n

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<\/strong>
\nEdited Volume<\/strong>
\nCharting Asian German Film History: Imagination, Collaboration, and Diasporic Representation<\/em>. Camden House, 2025. https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/book\/charting-asian-german-film-history-9781640141780\/?v=ae4171856a75<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Journal Articles<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2018A Temporality of Imminent, Never-Consummated Arrival\u2019: Contemporary German Documentaries on North Korea.\u201d German Studies Review<\/em> 46, no. 2 (2023): 285\u2013305. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/gsr.2023.0042<\/a>.
\n\u201cQueering the Screen: Spectral Figures and German-Taiwanese Encounters in Monika Treut\u2019s Ghosted.\u201d Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies<\/em> 58, no. 3 (2022): 251\u201370. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3138\/seminar.58.3.2<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Book Chapters<\/strong>
\n\u201cPrecarious Kinship, Conflicting Memories, and Ambivalent Affects of Belonging in Cho Sung-hyung\u2019s Korean-German Documentaries.\u201d In Charting Asian German Film History<\/em>, 227\u201348. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9781805436980-012<\/a>.
\n\u201cA Fa\u00e7ade of Solidarity: East Germany\u2019s Attempted Dialogue with China in The Compass Rose<\/em> (Die Windrose<\/em>, 1957).\u201d In East Asian-German Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present<\/em>, ed. Joanne Miyang Cho, 123\u201345. Routledge, 2021. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003157540-8<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Book Review<\/strong>
\nReview of Jihoon Kim, Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981\u20132022<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, 328 pp. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema<\/em> 16, no. 2 (2024): 172\u201375. https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17564905.2024.2395071<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

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