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Film and Digital Media
Yixuan Li is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She holds an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University and a B.A. in Literature of Theatre, Film and Television from Beijing Normal University, China. As a researcher, Li’s work explores the intersections of early moving images, Global South cinema, media archaeology, and visual modernity. Her broader research interests include radical media movements in 1980s East Asia, historical films, Chinese material culture, and fan labor.
- Russell Merritt Prize, the Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2025
- Honored Mention, Domitor Student Essay Award, 2024
- CRS Conference Travel Grant, New York University, 2024
- TSOA Graduate Scholarship, New York University, 2023-2024
- “Mao Zedong’s Swimming: Body Politics in China State Newsreels of the Socialist Era,” the 30th Columbia University Graduate Conference on East Asia (GradCon), October 18-19, 2024.
- “From Disaster to Revolution: How China State Films Revised the Public History of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake,” the 7th Public History Summer School, University of Wrocław (Poland), June 17-21, 2024.
- “Fatal Control: The Power Struggle Behind Comic Book Deaths,” the Comics Arts Conference at WonderCon, Anaheim Convention Center, March 29-31, 2024.
- “Capturing the ‘Grand Old Man of China’: Revisiting Li Hung Chang’s Image through Photography and Early Films,” 2024 Epiphany Term Centre for Comparative Modernities Workshop Series, Durham University, February 27, 2024.
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