Dino Ge Zhang
Media AnthropologistDino Ge ZHANG is a media anthropologist teaching at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. His current research primarily focuses on socio-technical, aesthetic and affective dimensions of contemporary video cultures/arts in the sinophone world.
Articles by Dino Ge Zhang
Culture
Art imitates life: The depressive soundscape of northeast China [Eye on Dongbei series]
Hong Kong academic Dino Ge Zhang explores the regional soundscape shaped by art forms like errenzhuan (二人转) and hanmai (喊麦) in northeast China. He discusses how a sense of ambiguous nostalgia emerged from the tension between declining folk culture and the perceived inertia of a population struggling to adapt to the rise of capitalism since the 1990s.
Dino Ge Zhang
19 Sep 2024