Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China

Winner, 2025 Lionel Trilling Book Award, Columbia College

Winner, 2024 Book Award, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Honorable Mention, 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, Modern Language Association

From the toppling of the Qing Empire in 1911 to the political campaigns and mass protests in the Mao and post-Mao eras, revolutionary upheavals characterized China’s twentieth century. In Revolutionary Becomings¸ Ying Qian stu...