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Zimu Zhang is an environmental humanities scholar working on visual culture, eco-cinema and ecofeminist arts. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong. She has been a visiting research fellow at several global institutions, including the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU (2022), VisitANTS Fellow in Critical Studies of Biodiversity and the Anthropocene at the University of Oulu, Finland(2023), and a Worldmaking China Fellow at Heidelberg University (2025). Along with her academic research, Zimu also practices filmmaking and curation.
Research interests
Environmental Humanities
Blue Humanities
Visual Culture
Moving Image, Documentary, Art
Chinese Independent Film
Blue Humanities
Visual Culture
Moving Image, Documentary, Art
Chinese Independent Film
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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Tracing the Chinese Pearl River Waterscape through Eco-arts
ZHANG, Z. (PI)
01/01/26 → 31/12/28
Project: Research project
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A Frog’s Anthropocene story: An ecofeminist reading of delta amphibiousness through the novel Chao Xi Tu
ZHANG, Z., 2026, In: Environmental Humanities. 18, 2, p. 247-263Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Free-roaming bovids in Hong Kong, worlding the more-than-human care
ZHANG, Z., 2026, In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 29, 3, p. 533-552Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Conferencing as environing with care: Organising an environmental humanities symposium in Hong Kong
ZHANG, Z., WANG, Y. J. & ZHENG, K., 2025, In: Knowledge Cultures. 13, 1, p. 139-162Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Navigating academic non/sense: A collective coda on response-able research ethics
PASLEY, A., STURM, S., ASPRILLA, D. I., EL MAZBOUH, M., KAUHANEN, I., PEÑA, C., RUSSIAL, M., WANG, Y. J., WESTBROOK, F., ZHANG, Z. & ZHENG, K., 2025, In: Knowledge Cultures. 13, 1, p. 163-174Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Village film and place-based film archive: Towards an ecological and archival Chinese independent documentary
ZHANG, Z., Apr 2025, Chinese independent cinema: Past, present, and a questionable future. BERRY, C., ROBINSON, L., YU, S. Q. & WU, L. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 261-283Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapters