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Weihong Bao is an Associate Professor of Chinese and Film Studies at the University of California, Berkley.Bao received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2006. She is the author of Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945. Bao serves on the editorial board for Feminist Media History and is co-editor for the “Film Theory in Media History” series published by Amsterdam University Press.

Richard Peña is a Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University, where he specializes in film theory and international cinema. From 1988 to 2012, he was the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival. He currently hosts WNET/Channel 13’s weekly Reel 13.

Christopher Rea is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. His latest book, Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949, was just published on June 1. Rea is also the author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (2015) and co-translator of The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (Columbia, 2017).