EALAC proudly welcomed Assistant Professor Ying Qian to the faculty in 2015. Professor Qian, who received her PhD in 2013 from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, combines a scholarly interest in Chinese literature, cinema, and politics with an artistic one in film making, criticism, and programming. She is completing a book manuscript, Visionary Realities: Documentary Cinema in China’s Revolutionary Century, and conducting research for a second one, which looks at writers, translators, and filmmakers working bilingually in China’s ethnically diverse border regions. Professor Qian’s documentary and short films have been exhibited and broadcasted in numerous countries, and her film criticism has been published in English, Chinese, and Czech newspapers and journals.