Pingfan Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pingfan Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pingfan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhejiang Gongshang University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1060-9971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Regulated bodies, ungrievable lives: Cultural mediations of Imperial Japan's gendered biomedical violence
The “Comfort Woman” as a Compositional Subject in Chinese and American Literature
The term “comfort women”11 We agree with the popular opinion that “comfort women” is a loaded, controversial term that has obscured the brutalities of the system. Throughout this essay, we use the
(In)significances’ in the contemporary transcultural heritagisation of a historical locale
This article advances the concept of ‘(in)significance’ in heritage studies from a transcultural perspective. It examines the discursive heritagisation of Hualin Temple in Guangzhou up to the present day, focusing on the acquisition, maintenance, and loss of its historical values through Chinese-foreign (primarily Chinese-English) transculturation. Three coexisting, yet distinct, discourses on the temple’s historical significance are identified i…
‘We resolve our own sorrows’: Screening comfort women in Chinese documentary films
This article adds a critical lens to the vicissitudinous public remembrance of the comfort women in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the oscillating representations of comfort women in Chinese documentary films. First, it probes how the violated bodies of comfort women on the screen constantly challenge and disrupt the entrenched gender norms in the interstices of the PRC’s official paradigms of “national humiliation” and “national greatn…
Power of One’: Situating the ‘Iris Chang Phenomenon’ in the National/Transnational Remembering of the Nanjing Massacre
This article examines the 'Iris Chang phenomenon'—the hypervisibility of Chang in the national/transnational remembering of the Nanjing Massacre—which recalls memories dialectically to become relevant to Chinese socio-political and cultural transformations. It mainly investigates why and how Chang's historical narratives have altered Chinese official discourses and triggered transnational literary and cinematic works that resist simplifying histo…
Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema
Considering comfort women as both a contested object of knowledge and a productive figure, this article examines the representational endeavours undertaken by Chinese filmmakers in the past three decades. Specifically, it analyses three fictional films – How Many Levels are Hells (1992), Zhenzhen (2002), and City of Life and Death (2009) – which were produced in disparate socio-political and historical circumstances. Central to this article is a …
American ‘Goddess of Mercy’ in the Nanjing Massacre: Minnie Vautrin and the Afterlife of Her Wartime Diary
This article examines the life and diary of the ‘American Goddess of Mercy’—Minnie Vautrin, who managed an all-women refugee camp during the notorious Nanjing Massacre in China. Starting with a concise biography of Vautrin, this article probes her embodiment of cross-cultural identities and pioneering role in Chinese women’s educational reform. In particular, I highlight the dual function of her wartime diary and how her descriptions of sexual vi…
A More Personal Look at Her Life”: Family Narrative, Gender, and Transnational Memories in The Girl and the Picture
Recent decades have witnessed a booming film industry portraying the Nanjing Massacre, both within and outside Mainland China, which is closely related to contemporary Chinese political, socioeconomic, and cultural transformations. This article examines the USC Shoah Foundation's 2018 documentary film The Girl and the Picture, featuring the well-known Nanjing Massacre female survivor Xia Shuqin. It argues that the cinematic rendition of Xia's fam…
Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema
Considering comfort women as both a contested object of knowledge and a productive figure, this article examines the representational endeavours undertaken by Chinese filmmakers in the past three decades. Specifically, it analyses three fictional films – How Many Levels are Hells (1992), Zhenzhen (2002), and City of Life and Death (2009) – which were produced in disparate socio-political and historical circumstances. Central to this article is a …
American ‘Goddess of Mercy’ in the Nanjing Massacre: Minnie Vautrin and the Afterlife of Her Wartime Diary
This article examines the life and diary of the ‘American Goddess of Mercy’—Minnie Vautrin, who managed an all-women refugee camp during the notorious Nanjing Massacre in China. Starting with a concise biography of Vautrin, this article probes her embodiment of cross-cultural identities and pioneering role in Chinese women’s educational reform. In particular, I highlight the dual function of her wartime diary and how her descriptions of sexual vi…
A More Personal Look at Her Life”: Family Narrative, Gender, and Transnational Memories in The Girl and the Picture
Recent decades have witnessed a booming film industry portraying the Nanjing Massacre, both within and outside Mainland China, which is closely related to contemporary Chinese political, socioeconomic, and cultural transformations. This article examines the USC Shoah Foundation's 2018 documentary film The Girl and the Picture, featuring the well-known Nanjing Massacre female survivor Xia Shuqin. It argues that the cinematic rendition of Xia's fam…
Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema
Considering comfort women as both a contested object of knowledge and a productive figure, this article examines the representational endeavours undertaken by Chinese filmmakers in the past three decades. Specifically, it analyses three fictional films – How Many Levels are Hells (1992), Zhenzhen (2002), and City of Life and Death (2009) – which were produced in disparate socio-political and historical circumstances. Central to this article is a …
‘We resolve our own sorrows’: Screening comfort women in Chinese documentary films
This article adds a critical lens to the vicissitudinous public remembrance of the comfort women in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the oscillating representations of comfort women in Chinese documentary films. First, it probes how the violated bodies of comfort women on the screen constantly challenge and disrupt the entrenched gender norms in the interstices of the PRC’s official paradigms of “national humiliation” and “national greatn…
Power of One’: Situating the ‘Iris Chang Phenomenon’ in the National/Transnational Remembering of the Nanjing Massacre
This article examines the 'Iris Chang phenomenon'—the hypervisibility of Chang in the national/transnational remembering of the Nanjing Massacre—which recalls memories dialectically to become relevant to Chinese socio-political and cultural transformations. It mainly investigates why and how Chang's historical narratives have altered Chinese official discourses and triggered transnational literary and cinematic works that resist simplifying histo…
Regulated bodies, ungrievable lives: Cultural mediations of Imperial Japan's gendered biomedical violence
The “Comfort Woman” as a Compositional Subject in Chinese and American Literature
The term “comfort women”11 We agree with the popular opinion that “comfort women” is a loaded, controversial term that has obscured the brutalities of the system. Throughout this essay, we use the
(In)significances’ in the contemporary transcultural heritagisation of a historical locale
This article advances the concept of ‘(in)significance’ in heritage studies from a transcultural perspective. It examines the discursive heritagisation of Hualin Temple in Guangzhou up to the present day, focusing on the acquisition, maintenance, and loss of its historical values through Chinese-foreign (primarily Chinese-English) transculturation. Three coexisting, yet distinct, discourses on the temple’s historical significance are identified i…
Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · China (3 works)