Yayu Zheng is a London-based media scholar and film producer. Zheng’s research focuses on Sinophone queer cinema, geopolitics and regional power dynamics. She earned a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California with a dissertation on gender and national identity in Taiwanese film since the 1990s. Yayu programmes Sinophone cinema strands for international festivals, reports for outlets such as DeepFocus and The Bund, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. She previously studied at Sciences Po, Paris, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Yayu Zheng is currently the 2024 Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese and Sinophone Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.