POSHEK FU
Professor of History

309 Gregory Hall
810 South Wright St., MC-466
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2089
poshekfu@uiuc.edu

Born in Hong Kong, Poshek Fu (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989) is Professor of History and Cinema Studies. His publications include Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas and The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (co-editor). He is writing a book on diasporic cinema, global Chinese popular cultures, and Cold War politics across the Pacific. His teaching interests include modern Chinese history, pan-Chinese cinemas, Afro-Asian conections, Asian American popular cultures, and race relations in the U.S.

Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas
Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity
Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945