Biography
I received my education at the universities of Nanjing (BA), and Utrecht (MA, PhD). Over my career, I have mainly focused on how societies are represented in media and in turn how mediatized representations can influence society, challenge audiences’ values, and transform viewers’ opinions. Two strands of research have been developed accordingly. The first is understanding cinema as an interactive, intercultural, international, and interdisciplinary “contact zone”, reflecting the historical interactions between the United States and China, with a focus on the representation of diasporic Chinese people and communities in films, and the Chinese reception of American representations of China and the Chinese. A second research strand investigates the visual representation of different epidemic experiences down the lines of race, gender, and wealth by employing an explicitly historicised approach.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- han@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Phạm Thùy Dung, Daniel R. Curtis & Qijun Han (2023) - From disease incubation to disease receipt: Representing epidemics and race in pre- and post-second world war American cinema (1931–1939 and 1950–1962) - Journal of Media History, 26 (2), 1-31 - doi: 10.18146/tmg.842
- Cynthia Han & Daniel Curtis (2023) - Heroism and Healthcare Workers in Epidemic Films - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_349-1
- Cynthia Han (2022) - Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965 - China Quarterly, 251, 967 - 969 - doi: 10.1017/S0305741022000947
- Qijun Han & DR (Daniel) Curtis (2022) - Infectious Inequalities; Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema - [link]
- Qijun Han & Daniel Curtis (2021) - Cinematic Representation of Early Modern Women and Epidemics - Early Modern Women, 16 (1), 123-134 - doi: 10.1086/715752 - [link]
- Qijun Han & Daniel R. Curtis (2021) - The Female Burden Visualized:: Cinematic Representation of Women during Epidemics - Journal of Popular Culture, 54 (5), 1116-1142 - doi: 10.1111/jpcu.13070 - [link]
- Cynthia Han (2021) - Feng Xiaogang's <i>Youth </i>(2017) and the Nostalgic Imagination - Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 30 (2), 93-111 - doi: 10.3138/cjfs-2019-0004
- Q Han & Daniel Curtis (2021) - Suspicious minds: cinematic depiction of distrust during epidemic disease outbreaks - BMJ Medical Humanities, 47 (2), 248-256 - doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-011871 - [link]
- Q Han & Daniel Curtis (2021) - Epidemics, public health workers, and ‘heroism’ in cinematic perspective - Visual Studies, 36 (4-5), 450-462 - doi: 10.1080/1472586x.2021.1907781 - [link]
- Daniel Curtis & Q Han (2021) - The Female Mortality Advantage in the Seventeenth-Century Rural Low Countries - Gender & History, 33 (1), 50-74 - doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12495 - [link]