Tim Shao-Hung Teng is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Sinophone film and media at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works across the fields of environmental humanities, media studies, critical theory, and STS. His book project, titled Earthbound Mediation: Geological Entanglements in Sinophone Extractive Zones, studies four historical sites of earth material extraction and their entanglement with media technology across China and Taiwan throughout the twentieth century. The first of its kind to feature extractive practices in Sinophone media culture, the project calls for a rethinking of the extractive zone as mediated by a wide array of geotechnical relations, whose world-making ability deserves careful attention alongside critiques of resource exploitation. He has also begun work on a second book about limestone and mudstone, whose metamorphoses as karst, coral, and cement he traces across various sites from geology to the ocean, from literature to contemporary art.
Teng’s peer-reviewed work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Public Culture, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, positions: asia critique, Screen, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. He has also contributed to the edited volumes Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion and The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming Chinese-language volume titled Film Studies in Taiwan: Cross-Generational Dialogues. Outside of academia, he works as a film curator. His curatorial experiences include internship in the Department of Film at MoMA in NYC as well as collaboration with Harvard Film Archive on East Asian film programs.
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