The first Chinese socialist film director Wang Ping and her most representative film: The Story of Liubao Village (1956) will be the subject of a talk at Harvard University this month.

Lingzhen Wang, associate professor at Brown University and a specialist in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, gender studies, film studies, and transnational feminist theory, will look at three critical issues in Chinese studies: the dismissal of socialist cinema as mere propaganda; the Cold War influence on the study of socialist China and women since the 1980s in American academia; and a reductive post-socialist adoption of poststructuralist theory in the research on Chinese women's film.

Date: April 30

Venue: Room S030, Harvard University

Website: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu

(China Daily 04/19/2013 page23)