Li Wanxia

Associate Research Fellow
Ph.D. in Art Studies
liwanxia@nju.edu.cn



Academic part-time title:

  • Member, Film and Television Stylistics Committee, China Film Critics Association

  • Member, Jiangsu Association for Media and Art Studies


(I)Research Interests:

  • Chinese Film History; Film Culture and Media Studies; Art Theory and Criticism

(II) Research Achievements

Publications:

BOOKS

  1. Contributor to Modern Chinese Film Literature: Concepts, Forms, and Criticism (1905–1949), China Film Press, 2023.


Journal Articles

Representative Papers：

  1. “Wireless Cinema: Early Chinese Imaginations of Television and Film Media Archaeology.” Contemporary Television, no. 3, 2025. Reprinted in full in Film and Television Art of RUC Information and Documentation Center, no. 7, 2025.

  2. “On Stylistic Conceptions in Early Chinese Cinema: Focusing on the Discourse of Yingxi.” Ethnic Arts Studies, no. 3, 2024. CSSCI.

  3. “Hesitation and Transformation: Hong Shen’s Film Production in the 1920s.” Journal of Beijing Film Academy, no. 1, 2021. CSSCI.

  4. “Early Film Special Issues: Screenwriting Media and Cultural Participation—A Study Centered on Mingxing Special Issue.” NJU Drama Studies, no. 2, 2021. CSSCI.

  5. “Youth Nostalgia Films and the Construction of Collective Memory.” Film Literature, no. 14, 2019. PKU Core.


Major Research Projects

  1. Led the “Enlightening the Masses: A Study of ‘Social Problem Films’ (1923–1949)” under Jiangsu Provincial Graduate Research and Innovation Program (Project number: KYCX24_0059), 2024-2025;

  2. Participates in the “Collection, Organization, and Database Construction of Modern Chinese Film Literature” under the Major Art Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (Project number: 18ZDA262), 2018-present;

  3. Participates in the “International Dissemination and Influence of Chinese Newsreels during the War of Resistance Against Japan” under the Youth Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (Project number: 25CXW018), 2025-present.


(III) Award and Honor


  1. National Scholarship (2015, 2019); Nanjing University Outstanding Model (2024); Nanjing University Outstanding Graduate (2021, 2025)

  2. Outstanding Theoretical and Critical Article Award, China Film Association, for “Early Chinese Cinema and International Film Festivals: Opportunities for Intervention, Reception Differences, and National Discourse (1932–1949)” (2025)