Hong Zeng is an assistant professor of Chinese language, literature, and film at Carleton College.

"Hong Zeng presents a much-needed theoretical exploration of Chinese-language film. The theory of exile provides a shared platform to discuss not only a variety of otherwise non-comparable Chinese-language films but also some critical aspects of Chinese films that had been insufficiently studied." - Jie Zhang, assistant professor, Chinese Language, Literature and Cinema , Trinity College

• Semiotics of Photography and Exile Postmodernism and Semiotics of Exile Female Doubling and Postcolonial Exile Semiotics of Exile and Genre Upsetting: Xin Jin's Subversion of Melodrama in Hibiscus Town Failure of Root-searching in Cheng Kaige Semiotics of Exile and Displaced Film Codes: Jia Zhangke's Three Films