Jason McGrath is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, where he also serves on the graduate faculty of Moving Image, Media, and Sound Studies. His books include Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age (Stanford U Press, 2008) and Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age (U Minnesota Press, 2022).