Jing Wang

Honorary Lecturer
wj26@hku.hk

Jing Wang is a scholar-practitioner. She possesses over a decade of professional experience in documentary filmmaking, serving as both a director and producer. Simultaneously, she combines academic scholarship with practical insights.

Her documentary works have been released in cinemas across China, including the audience-award-winning Bitter Sweet Ballad (2025, Producer); the world’s first UGC-based documentary This is Life (2024, Producer); and the Golden Rooster-nominated The Great Learning (2021, Director). Her other feature films include Auld Lang Syne Dunhuang 172 (2025, Producer) and Hometown (2018, Director/Cinematographer/Editor), which have been invited for screenings in ten countries, including the Louvre in France and the University of Cambridge in the UK. Her documentary series, including Masters of Ding Ware (2025, Producer), Eternity in Dunhuang (2024, Executive Producer), and Masters in the Forbidden City (2020, Executive Producer), have been broadcast on major platforms such as CCTV, CGTN, and Bilibili.

Her research focuses on audiovisual communication, film and media studies, with a specific interest in realistic cinema, documentary theory, and mobile screens. Her first monograph, Globalized Realism: The Aesthetics of Realistic Cinema in the Post-Cold War Era, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan (2026). Prior to her appointment at The University of Hong Kong, she received her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University and completed her postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford.