Angela Zito, Associate Professor, NYU–jointly appointed in Anthropology and Religious Studies. \u00a0Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Co-founder and Director of the Center for Religion and Media. \u00a0BA Penn State in East Asian Studies\/minor in Journalism. MPhil and PhD, University of Chicago, East Asian Language and Civilizations. \u00a0Trained in history, Sinology and cultural anthropology, wrote a dissertation on imperial ritual under the Qianlong Emperor later published as Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as text\/performance in 18th c China. This has led to an abiding interest in the imperial and later Chinese state forms as they continue to seek to influence the styles of personhood of their subjects and citizens. \u00a0I associate religious life with practices, performances, modes of embodiment and their mediation through things. \u00a0After an excursion into Chinese independent documentary as a form of the ethical activist uses of media, I am returned to a project on the Party-state’s revitalization and instance on filiality as both \u00a0piety and propaganda. \u00a0 Writing a book on its various media forms including posters, televisions talk shows, museums and films.<\/p>\n
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