The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to Hollywood in China on Thursday, June 2 from 10 - 11AM PST.

Professor Ying Zhu charts a century of relations between Hollywood and China against the backdrop of shifting U.S.-China dynamics. She teases out competing political and economic interests as well as cultural values that have played out in the art and artifice of filmmaking on a global scale, and with global ramifications.

REGISTER TO ATTEND»

speaker

Ying

Ying Zhu is professor emeritus at the City University of New York and director of the Center for Film and Moving Image Research in the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author to four books including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market (2022) and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2013), and co-editor of six book volumes including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds (2019).

moderator

tiffert-150px.jpg

Glenn Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He co-chairs the Hoover project on China’s Global Sharp Power and works closely with government and civil society partners to document and build resilience against authoritarian interference with democratic institutions. Most recently, he co-authored and edited Global Engagement: Rethinking Risk in the Research Enterprise (2020).

Upcoming Events

Sunday, July 27, 2025
technologyistock-1300754614.jpg
Advancing Policy Through Dialogue: Maintaining Excellence And Innovation In S&T
The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to Advancing Policy Through Dialogue: Maintaining Excellence and…
Monday, July 28, 2025
Ideas-Uncorked_square_July28.jpg
Ideas Uncorked: Reimagining Strategic Depth
The Hoover Institution in DC hosts Ideas Uncorked: Reimagining Strategic Depth on Monday, July 28 from 5:00–6:30 pm ET. The event will feature Nadia… Hoover Institution in DC
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
The Milk Tea Alliance:  Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing
The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy And Beijing
The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and… Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building
overlay image