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2026 - 2027 Society of Scholars
2019 - 2020 Society of Scholars Fellow
Belinda He (she/her/hers)
The Invention of Hostile Views: Class Struggle, Exposure, and Cinema as Show Trial in Revolutionary China, 1925-1985
Whereas most existing studies take for granted the practices associated with class struggle, my dissertation traces an alternative history of how class struggle was made in China. Drawing on archives, fieldwork, and an audiovisual corpus, the project explores the mass production of hostile views—penal spectacles, hate images, antagonistic ideologies, and encounters of watching-as-judging. I argue that the mutual constitution of image and justice, upon which class struggle was legitimized and in effect produced everyday violence.