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Zimu Zhang is an environmental humanities scholar specialized in visual culture, eco-cinema and ecofeminist arts. She completed her PhD research on Anthropocene (counter)visuality in contemporary Chinese visual culture in 2022 from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She is the recipient of the 2022 Landhaus fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU and 2023 VisitANTS fellowship in Critical Studies of Biodiversity and the Anthropocene Research at University of Oulu, Finland. Along with her academic research, Zimu also practices filmmaking, curation and socially engaged art. For more information, please visit website: https://zimu-z.com/.
Research interests
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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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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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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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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Free-roaming bovids in Hong Kong, worlding the more-than-human care
ZHANG, Z., Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Cultural Studies.Research 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
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Water on cross-border screens, Hong Kong water tales from the 1960s
ZHANG, Z., 2025, In: Journal of Chinese Cinemas. 19, 1, p. 6-24Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review