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Dr Pao-chen Tang
PhD (UChicago)
Lecturer, Discipline of Film Studies
Address
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
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Member of China Studies Centre
Member of Sydney Environment Institute
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Pao-chen Tang’s work focuses on the intersection between film aesthetics and ecopolitics. He has written extensively on questions of the nonhuman in reciprocity with ethics, and with filmmaking (as well as other forms of moving image media).
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- ecocinema and media
- transcultural genres and modes
- animal studies
- film production culture
- FILM1000 Introduction to Film Studies
- FILM3004 National and Transnational Cinema
- FILM4115 Film Theory: Art, Industry, Culture
He is currently working on a second book project, which explores how the ongoing neo-industrialization of Chinese society has given rise to an aesthetic of technology in contemporary Chinese cinema, demonstrably manifested on the front of set and prop design.
- Society of Cinema and Media Studies
- Association for the Study of Literature and Environmen
- British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
- Asian Studies Association of Australia
- Domitor
External Grants:
- Overseas Pioneers Grants for New Scholars, National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan), 2024
- USyd-NTU Ignition Grant, 2024
- Mrs. Alice Tsai Yu Award, China Times Cultural Foundation, 2019
- Franke Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2019
- Ishibashi Foundation Fellowship, 2019
- The Chiu Scholarly Exchange Program for Taiwan Studies, 2019
Reseach Awards:
- Shortlisted, Screen Award, 2024
- Shortlisted, BAFTSS Best Journal Article, 2024
- SCMS Student Writing Award (Third Place), 2020
- SCMS Transnational Cinemas SIG Graduate Student Writing Prize, 2019
- ASLE Graduate Student Paper Award, 2019
- Domitor Essay Award, 2015
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| The spirituality of affect in contemporary East Asian cinema: body intensity and digitality | Chenlei XIAO |
Selected publications
Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media
(Hong Kong University Press, 2025)
The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema (forthcoming)
(Amsterdam University Press, 2025)
Publications
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Books
- Tang, P. (2025). The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema (forthcoming). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [More Information]
Edited Books
- Tang, P., Yan, Y., Zhang, L. (2025). Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Tang, P. (2025). Beyond Locality: Ke Chin-yuan's Environmentalist Documentary and Cultural Nativism. In Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan and Ling Zhang (Eds.), Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, (pp. 167-187). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
- Tang, P., Yan, Y., Zhang, L. (2025). Introduction. In Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan and Ling Zhang (Eds.), Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, (pp. 1-27). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2024). "Liulangzhe weihe yao yanggou? Huan yang yu zhong tongban dongwu siyang de jujiaxing yu qinggan xuqiu" (Why do unhoused people have dogs? The domesticity and affective needs of companion animal ownership in "Animal Love"). In Tsunghuei Huang and Tsungchieh Huang (Eds.), Dongwu guanjianzi (Keywords in Animal Studies), (pp. 284-289). Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company. [More Information]
Journals
- Tang, P. (2023). Cinema Wears the Mask: The Metaphysics of Animism in 'Une histoire de vent'. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 62(3), 132-151. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2023). Producing a future on a wandering Earth. Screen, 64(4), 426-445. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2022). Solitude in Pixels: Lu Yang's Digital Figuration of Corporeality. Screen Bodies, 7(1), 159-176. [More Information]
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Textual Creative Works
- Tang, P. (2024). Towards a Utopian Archive. Cao Fei: My City is Yours, (pp. 38 - 47). Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2023). The Bodies of DOKU. LuYang NetiNeti, Berlin, Germany: DISTANZ. [More Information]
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2025
- Tang, P. (2025). Beyond Locality: Ke Chin-yuan's Environmentalist Documentary and Cultural Nativism. In Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan and Ling Zhang (Eds.), Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, (pp. 167-187). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
- Tang, P., Yan, Y., Zhang, L. (2025). Introduction. In Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan and Ling Zhang (Eds.), Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media, (pp. 1-27). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
- Tang, P., Yan, Y., Zhang, L. (2025). Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [More Information]
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2024
- Tang, P. (2024). "Liulangzhe weihe yao yanggou? Huan yang yu zhong tongban dongwu siyang de jujiaxing yu qinggan xuqiu" (Why do unhoused people have dogs? The domesticity and affective needs of companion animal ownership in "Animal Love"). In Tsunghuei Huang and Tsungchieh Huang (Eds.), Dongwu guanjianzi (Keywords in Animal Studies), (pp. 284-289). Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2024). Towards a Utopian Archive. Cao Fei: My City is Yours, (pp. 38 - 47). Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales. [More Information]
2023
- Tang, P. (2023). Cinema Wears the Mask: The Metaphysics of Animism in 'Une histoire de vent'. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 62(3), 132-151. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2023). Producing a future on a wandering Earth. Screen, 64(4), 426-445. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2023). The Bodies of DOKU. LuYang NetiNeti, Berlin, Germany: DISTANZ. [More Information]
2022
- Tang, P. (2022). Solitude in Pixels: Lu Yang's Digital Figuration of Corporeality. Screen Bodies, 7(1), 159-176. [More Information]
- Tang, P. (2022). Text and Context: Teaching Regional Film History through Film Criticism. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, JCMS Teaching Media Winter 2022. [More Information]
2020
- Tang, P. (2020). The ecological vision of Xu Bing's 'Dragonfly Eyes'. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 27(3), 440-452. [More Information]
2018
- Tang, P. (2018). The Grandmaster of Snow: Martial arts, Particle Systems and the Animist Cinema. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 12(1), 92-110. [More Information]
2017
- Tang, P. (2017). Of Dogs and Hot Dogs: Distractions in Early Cinema. Early Popular Visual Culture, 15(1), 44-58. [More Information]
2016
- Tang, P. (2016). Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Art and Ecology in Xu Bing's 'Forest Project'. Yishu: A journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, 15(1), 86-108. [More Information]
2015
- Tang, P. (2015). "Jiantan dianying yu dongwu yanjiu" (On cinema and animal studies). Sixiang, 29, 161-178. [More Information]
In the media
- 13/02/2025 - interviewed on Bastille Post Global: "Ne Zha 2" bridges cultures, charts new era for Chinese animation with global debut