Name: Kristine Harris
Title: Director, Asian Studies Program
Academic Rank: Associate Professor
Department: History

Expertise Keywords: Asia, Asian, China, Chinese, Cinema, cultural history, Culture, current affairs in Asia, East Asia, film, film history, gender, historiography, History, Japan, modern China, nationalism, urban history

Available For: interviews, essays, speaking

Expertise: My expertise is in the history of modern China and Japan, with a specialization in Chinese cultural history. I speak and read Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and French. My teaching includes courses related the areas of expertise mentioned above, along with special topics courses on Chinese film, women and gender in China, and urban history.

Currrent Research: My current research explores the social and political impact of film culture in China from the 1890s through to the present, with an emphasis on the period prior to the 1949 Revolution. For this research I work with original sources in Chinese and Japanese, located in archives in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.

Contact Information

E-mail Address: harrisk@newpaltz.edu

Other Information

Positions held at New Paltz prior to current position:
Assistant Professor, 1996-2003

Positions held prior to joining SUNY New Paltz:
Visiting Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, 2007 and 2009

Education

Colleges/ Universities Attended	Dates Attended	Degree Conferred	Year Conferred	Major Subject
Beijing Foreign Languages Institute	1984	Certificate	1984	Advanced Mandarin
Wellesley College	1982-1986	B.A.	1986	Chinese, English literature
Columbia University	1986-1997	M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D	1997	East Asian Languages & Cultures

Awards/Grants/Honors

SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines, The International New Woman in Photography and Film, project collaborator, 2011

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, U.S. Department of Education, for curriculum development in India, 2009-2010

Research Project Award, State University of New York, New Paltz, for archival research in China, 2004-2005

Research Affiliation, ACLS Committee for Scholarly Communication with China, for archival research in China, fall 2004

Korea Society Fall Fellowship, for study seminars and travel in Korea, fall 2004

Professional Development Award, United University Professions, 2003

Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, spring 1999

Drescher Award, State of New York / United University Professions, for junior faculty leave, spring 1999

Visiting Scholar, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences History Research Institute / International Exchange, for archival research in China, fall 1998

Research Project Award, State University of New York, New Paltz, for archival research in China, 1998-1999

ACLS - NEH National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China Award, for research in China, 1998

Pacific Cultural Foundation Dissertation Grant, 1994-1995

V.K. Wellington Koo Fellowship, Columbia University East Asian Institute, 1993-1994

American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Research in China Fellowship, 1993

Fulbright Foundation Fellowship for Research Abroad, 1992-1993

Columbia University East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Scholarships, 1989 1994

President's Fellowships, Columbia University, 1989 1991

Wellesley College Graduate Fellowship in History, 1989-1990

Foreign Languages and Area Studies Scholarship, 1988-1989

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Other professional activities

PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, PANELS

“New Women: The Lives and Deaths of Ruan Lingyu” – guest lecture in the course "China through the Lens: History, Cinema, and Critical Discourse" (EAST 1270), at Brown University, 22 September 2011

“Shanghai Cinema behind the Scenes” – guest lecturer and curator of 3-film series for the Year of China at Brown University, 21 September 2011

“Replaying the Deaths of Ruan Lingyu” – paper presentation for panel “Creating National Images through Film” in the New York Conference on Asian Studies, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 17 September 2011

“Modern Mulans: From Woman Warrior to New Woman” – paper presentation for panel “Transmitting New Woman Icons,” in the conference "The International New Woman in Photography and Film" (SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines), at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 16 September 2011

“1930s Chinese Cinema: The Case of Love and Duty” – paper presentation for panel on film history in the conference "Chinese Cinemas: Reframing the Field," at Duke University, 15 April 2011

"Modern Mulans: Re-imagining the Mulan Legend in Chinese Film, 1920s-60s" – paper presentation for "The New Woman International" panel hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, at Barnard College, March 2011

"Migrant Lives: Documentary and Discussion" – moderator for panel in the India-China Institute conference "Prosperity and Inequality: India and China in Global Perspective," at The New School for Social Research, March 2010

"Re-makes/Re-Models: The Red Detachment of Women between Stage and Screen” – paper presentation for Symposium on Chinese Opera Films after 1949: Music, Performance, and Cinematic Arts, University of Chicago, April 2009

"Still Life" – lecture & screening of recent Chinese film (invited), New School for Social Research, October 2008

“Electric Shadows” – lecture, film screening, and discussion for PanAsia Spring Festival, University of Chicago, April 2009

“Modern Mulans” – paper presentation for panel “The Multifarious Modern Girl,” (refereed), Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2008

“’Home’ in Chinese Film” – lecture and film screening for NEH Institute Living and Being ‘Chinese’: Geographic and Ethnic Diversity in China (invited), China Institute & Columbia University, New York, July 2007

“Film-within-Film” – paper presentation for research workshop History in Images, History through Images: Entertainment, Media & Public Space (invited), sponsored by University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies and l’Institut d’Asie Orientale, Lyon, France, June 2007

“The Metropolis in the Cinematic Imagination of Republican China” – paper presentation at the Chicago Film Seminar (invited), held at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2007

Discussant for paper on Ruan Lingyu & realism in Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, April 2007

“Mediums for Revolution: 75 Years of The Red Detachment of Women” – paper presentation for lecture series Between Stage & Screen: Modern Chinese Cinema & Drama (invited), University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, May 2006

Discussant for paper on the Chinese women’s question in late Qing, University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, May 2006

“The Goddess” – lecture & screening of 1930s Chinese film (invited), Bard College, March 2006

“1930年代的上海及城市交响曲影片 City Symphony Films in 1930s Shanghai” – paper presentation at the International Forum for the Centennial Anniversary of Chinese Cinema (invited), sponsored by the China Film Archive, China Film Bureau, and CCTV6, held in Beijing, December 2005

“民国时期银幕上的大都会形象 The Metropolis in the Cinematic Imagination of Republican China”– paper presentation for the International Symposium on Popular Culture and Social Change in Modern China (invited), sponsored by the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences and the Huadong University Department of History and Urban Studies, held in Shanghai, December 2005

"The Metropolis in the Cinematic Imagination of Republican China -- New and Old Shanghai" – paper presentation and organizer for panel “The Transnational City in Early Twentieth Century China,” New York Conference on Asian Studies, held at the State University of New York, New Paltz, October 2005

"Designs for Filming: Deco Style and Chinese Cinema" – paper presentation for the symposium Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World War II (invited), Department of Art History and Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, April 2004

"Red Stars over China: Film Workers as Popular Icons in the 1950s"– paper presentation for panel “Creating New China's Cinema: Continuity and Change, 1949-1957,” (with Sun Daolin), Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, held at Arizona State University, Phoenix, October 2005

Moderator for panel: "Brecht in the Chinese Tradition," with the Shanghai Theater Academy, International Theater Symposium (invited), Bard College, October 2003

“Reflecting on 'Double Films' in China” – paper presentation for research workshop Visual Culture in Modern China (invited), University of Washington-Seattle, May 2003

“Mirror Images & Cinematic Spectacle in Republican China” – paper presentation for research workshop Urban Spectacle and the Rise of Mass Culture in Late Qing and Republican China (invited), Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University, May 2003

“Shanghai Cinema and Modern Chinese Cultural History” – paper presentation for Honors Center Lecture Series, State University of New York, New Paltz, November 2002

Guest commentator for TV broadcast of film screening of Country Teacher 鳳凰琴, on City Cinematheque - Celebration of Chinese Cinema (invited), City University of New York TV, June 2002

"A Double Life in Chinese Cinema" – paper presentation for UT Asia Lecture Series (invited), University of Texas, Austin, March 2002

"The Fallen Women in Shanghai Cinema" -- lecture, film screening, and simultaneous translation of 1930s Chinese film (invited), Bard College, November 2001

"Metamorphoses from Stage to Screen in Prewar Chinese Cinema" – paper presentation and organizer for panel “Cinema and the Politics of Culture in Early Twentieth-Century China,” (refereed), Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2001

“Questions of Authenticity” – panel discussion member at the symposium Who Owns Culture? held in conjunction with the Chen Shizheng staging of the Ming kunqu opera The Peony Pavilion, sponsored by the New School University and held at Lincoln Center, New York, July 1999

"A Spray of Plum Blossoms一剪梅: Gender Roles in a 1931 Chinese Film Adaptation of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona" – paper presentation for special focus panel Women in Asian Cinema (invited), Humanities Institute, SUNY Stony Brook, November 1998

"A World Elsewhere: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Shanghai Cinema of the Early 1930s" – paper presentation, organizer, and moderator for panel “Chinese Cinema in the Early Twentieth Century,” New York Conference on Asian Studies, held at the State University of New York, New Paltz, October 1998

"Shanghai Cinema Looks South" – paper presentation for symposium Maritime China: Culture, Commerce, Society (invited), University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, March 1998

Discussant for panel, “Celebrating Fifty Years of Chinese Cinema,” with PRC film delegation, Columbia University, February 1998

Discussant for panel, “Staging Gender through Media in Taiwan,” for research conference History and Culture of Taiwan, Columbia University, August 1997

“The Past and Future of Hong Kong Cinema” – panel discussion member, Contemporary Hong Kong Film Festival (invited), Yale University, April 1996

"Film Actresses and the Media in 1930s Shanghai" – paper presentation for panel “Mainland Chinese Films: Construction of Subjectivity,” Conference on Asian Cinema: Poetics and Politics, Ohio University, November 1994

"Image and Subject: The New Woman and Ruan Lingyu" – paper presentation for panel “Representations and History of 1930s Chinese Cinema,” Conference on Cross-Cultural Analysis & Chinese Cinema Studies, University of Pittsburgh, September 1994

"1930s Shanghai Film Culture and The New Woman"– paper presentation in panel “Media and Modernity in Shanghai, 1895-1945,” (refereed), Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 1994

""Revolution and Exile in Late Qing Fiction: Luo Pu's Novel Heroines of Eastern Europe 東歐女豪杰" Film Actresses and the Media in 1930s Shanghai" – paper presentation, Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, February 1992

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PAST / RECENT SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, journal, External reviewer
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (Univ. of California, Berkeley - Tsinghua University, Beijing), Admissions Committee Member
Journal of Women's Studies, External Reviewer
AAS New York Conference on Asian Studies Program Committee Member
Chinese Historical Review, journal, External Reviewer
Longman, history textbook publisher, External reviewer
Positions, journal of East Asia cultures critique, External reviewer
Twentieth-Century China, journal of modern Chinese history and culture, External reviewer
AAS New York Conference on Asian Studies 1998, Program Committee Member
Giornate del Cinema Muto-Griffithiana Special Focus on Early Chinese Cinema, Pordenone, Italy
Yale University Council on East Asian Studies Chinese Film Festival, New Haven, CT
Republic of China National Film Year Project, Taipei, Taiwan
China Film Archive Sixty Years of Left-wing Cinema Project, Beijing, P.R.C.

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Organizational Memberships

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS)

Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS)

China Institute Renwen Society

Historic Preservation Commission, Village of New Paltz, 2006-present

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Publications

"《西厢记》与20世纪20年代上海的古装剧." [The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai]. 民国时期的上海电影与城市文化 [Film and culture in Republican China]. 张英进编, 苏涛译 [edited by Zhang Yingjin, translated by Su Tao]. 北京: 北京大学出版社, 2011. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2011. Chapter 3. (ISBN：978-7-301-18959-7)

"《西厢记》与20世纪20年代上海的古装剧." [The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai]. 苏涛译 [translated by Su Tao]. 当代电影 [Contemporary Cinema (journal)] (2011.09): 72-76.

"Modern Mulans: Re-imagining the Mulan Legend in Chinese Film, 1920s-60s." In The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s. Edited by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, with a foreword by Linda Nochlin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. pp. 309-330.

“Re-makes/Re-Models: The Red Detachment of Women between Stage and Screen.” The Opera Quarterly: Performance + Theory + History (Oxford Journals; Special Double Issue on Chinese Opera Film edited by Judith Zeitlin & Paola Iovene), vol. 26, no. 2-3 (Spring-Summer 2010), pp. 316-342.

“Hu Die,” “Li Xianglan,” “Ruan Lingyu,” in The Encyclopedia of Modern China (4 vols.), edited by David Pong, with Julia Andrews, Jean-Philippe Beja, Flemming Christiansen, David Faure, and Antonia Finnane. Volume 2, pp. 254, 291-292, 466. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2009

"The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai." Reprinted in Chinese Films in Focus II, edited by Christopher Berry, 128-136. London and NY: Palgrave, 2008

"The Metropolis in the Cinematic Imagination of Republican China and the City Symphony Film 民国時期銀幕上的大都会形象与城市交响曲影片." In Dushi wenhua zhong de xiandai zhongguo 都市文化中的现代中国 [Popular Culture of the Modern Metropolis], edited by JIANG Jin 姜进, 263-304. Shanghai: Huadong shifan daxue chubanshe [East China Normal University Press], 2007

"1930 年代的上海及"城市交响曲"影片 / City Symphony Films in 1930s Shanghai." In 回顾与展望: 纪念中国电影一百周年国际论坛 Retrospective and Outlook: International Forum for the Centennial Anniversary of Chinese Cinema Commemorative Volume, 187-195, 503-513. Beijing: China Film Archive, 2005

"The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai." In Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes, edited by Christopher Berry, 111-119. London: British Film Institute, 2003

"The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai." In Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943, edited by Yingjin Zhang, 51-73. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999

"The New Woman Incident: Cinema, Scandal, and Spectacle in 1935 Shanghai." In Transnational Chinese Cinemas, edited by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, 277-302. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997

"A Symposium on Peony Pavilion" (co-author). Threepenny Review XX, 2 (Summer 1999): 34.

"Peach Blossom Dreams: Silent Chinese Cinema Remembered." Griffithiana 60/61 (October 1997): 126-179. Translations of early Chinese documents on cinema, for dossier edited by Derek Elley

"The New Woman: Image, Subject, and Dissent in 1930s Shanghai Film Culture." Republican China 20, 2 (April 1995): 55-79

Review of Riben Tongshi [Comprehensive History of Japan], by Liu Jianmin. Sino-Japanese Studies 6, 2 (1994): 72

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