Her publications include An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1895-1937 (2005; MLA “Honorary Mention for an Outstanding First Book”) and The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century (2007). She is currently working on a new book on the melodramatic articulations in Chinese film history and two co-edited volumes, Screening Trans-Asia and DV-Made China. Zhang Zhen is also a widely published poet and essayist.