Po-Shek Fu

Po-Shek Fu is a historian of film and popular culture, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Born in Hong Kong, Dr. Fu received his B.A. from the University of Toronto, spent several years in China at the beginning of the "Reforms and Open Up," before getting his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has been Fulbright Scholar, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Zijiang Professor of Humanities at East China Normal University. Dr. Fu's publications include Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945 (Stanford University Press, 1997), Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas (Stanford University Press, 2003), China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (University of Illinois Press, 2008), and, most recently, Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2023).