Dr ZHANG, Zimu

Assistant Professor

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters

Zimu Zhang (2025). Village Film and Place-based Film Archive: Towards an Ecological and Archival Chinese Independent Documentary. Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, Sabrina Qiong Yu, Lydia Dan Wu, Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present and A Questionable Future (261-283). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722575/chinese-independent-cinema#toc
Zimu Zhang (2021). Social Media Art Practices as Prefigurative Politics: Echoes from China. edited by Guobin Yang, Wei Wang, in "Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production" (179-200). Michigan, US: Michigan State University Press

Zimu Zhang (2025). Free-Roaming Bovids in Hong Kong, Worlding the More-than-human Care. European Journal of Cultural Studies, online first, forthcoming.
Zimu Zhang (2023). Artistic Sousveillance in the Societal Surveillant Assemblage - on Dragonfly Eyes and Eye Contact. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 2(1), 9-27
Johnathan Harrington, Zimu Zhang (2022). Negotiating Chinese Youth Cyber Nationalism through Play Methods. British Journal of Chinese Studies, 12, 114-132
Zimu Zhang (2022). Ecological and Archival Practice in Village Films: An Interview with Guo Jing. Chinese Independent Cinema Observer, 4, 280-293

Invited conference paper

Zimu Zhang (2024, November). Free Roaming Bovids in Hong Kong, A Complicated More-than-human. The Hong Kong 2023 Humanities Conference on Comparative Cultures of Care, Hong Kong. https://www.eduhk-irccs.com/hongkong2023humanitiesconferenceoncomparativeculturesofcare
Zimu Zhang (2024, May). Amphibiousness Worlding and Eco-feminist Speculations of the Chinese Pearl River Delta. 2024 Environmental Humanities Symposium “A Gathered Dialogue: Eco-afterlives and Slow Hope”, Hong Kong. https://www.eduhk-irccs.com/eco-afterlivesandslowhope
Zimu Zhang (2023, June). Death in the Cryosphere, Mourning the Anthropocene Loss. Paper presented at International Symposium on “Affective Anthropocene: Contextualizing Feelings and Environments under Climate Change”, Hong Kong/Online.
Zimu Zhang (2022, April). Green Elegies: Ecofeminist Reading of Toxicity and Trauma in the Making of Chinese Ecological Civilization. Paper presented at International Symposium on Cloud, Heat, Sea, Wind in the Light of Ecological Civilization, Hong Kong/Online.

Refereed conference paper

Zimu Zhang (2023, July). Speculative More-than-Human Indigenous Community as Ecocritical Practices in the Southern China Waterscape. Paper presented at “Reclaiming the Commons” joint conference of The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), Oregon, US/online.
Zimu Zhang (2023, May). Can Awkward Humans Dream About Free Roaming Bovids?. Paper presented at The Sustainable Science Days Conference, Helsinki, Finland.

Zimu Zhang (2023). Letter to T: in nuclearity, we are connected. Singapore: Asian Film Archive. https://asianfilmarchive.org/event-calendar/monographs-2023-letter-to-t-in-nuclearity-we-are-connected/
Zimu Zhang (2023). [film curation] Viral Memo: Camera Eyes on the Biopolitics of COVID-19 in China. Finland
Zimu Zhang, Zheng Lu Xinyuan (2018). [film] Just Like Any Other Night. China
Zimu Zhang (2017). [film] Letter from Xiaobei. China