Qingyang Freya Zhou (she/her) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in German, with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley in 2026. Her first monograph in progress, Divisive Kinship: The Long Cold War in Korean German Film and Literature, examines literary and cinematic representations of national division across East/West Germany and North/South Korea from 1900 to the present. Freya has published two award-winning journal articles on Asian diasporic cinema in Seminar and German Studies Review and co-edited the anthology Charting Asian German Film History (Camden House, 2025).​

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Edited Volume

Charting Asian German Film History: Imagination, Collaboration, and Diasporic Representation. Camden House, 2025. https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/charting-asian-german-film-history-9781640141780/?v=ae4171856a75.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“‘A Temporality of Imminent, Never-Consummated Arrival’: Contemporary German Documentaries on North Korea.” German Studies Review 46, no. 2 (2023): 285–305. https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0042.

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“Queering the Screen: Spectral Figures and German-Taiwanese Encounters in Monika Treut’s Ghosted.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 58, no. 3 (2022): 251–70. https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.3.2.

Book Chapters

“Precarious Kinship, Conflicting Memories, and Ambivalent Affects of Belonging in Cho Sung-hyung’s Korean-German Documentaries.” In Charting Asian German Film History, 227–48. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805436980-012.

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“A Façade of Solidarity: East Germany’s Attempted Dialogue with China in The Compass Rose (Die Windrose, 1957).” In East Asian-German Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present, ed. Joanne Miyang Cho, 123–45. Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003157540-8.

Book Review

Review of Jihoon Kim, Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981–2022. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, 328 pp. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 16, no. 2 (2024): 172–75. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17564905.2024.2395071.

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Email: freyaqz@hku.hk