"Of Color and Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949" Film Screening & Conversation

Weimin Zhang

Professor of Cinema

San Francisco State University

Weimin Zhang is a highly accomplished Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. With a diverse background as an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, and multimedia designer, she has made significant contributions to the film industry and acdemia. Her extensive portfolio includes work on numerous acclaimed films, documentaries, and TV drama series in both China and the United States.

Among her notable achievements, Weimin directed and produced The House of Spirit (2000), which received the Women in Film Award and was featured in several film festivals. In 2008, she served as a U.S. unit director for the award-winning documentary The Ever-Lasting Flame – Beijing 2008, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival and became part of the permanent collection at the Olympic Museum.

Weimin also directed the feature-length documentary Missing Home: The Last Days of Beijing Hutongs (2013), which garnered critical acclaim and received awards at multiple international film festivals. Other notable works include CEO (2003), Green Mountain in a Drawer (2009), and the documentary Nushu – The Secret Writing of Women in China (1999), which won Best Documentary Film at the Torino International Women’s Film Festival.

She has recently completed a feature documentary film, Of Color and Ink, exploring the life and art of the renowned Chinese artist Chang Dai-chien during his over 30 years of exile overseas. The film has achieved significant success, winning numerous international film festival awards and securing worldwide distribution.

In addition, Weimin has always explored the integration of art and technology. Her interactive multimedia project Nushu: The Secret Language of Women was published by China Encyclopedia and won the 2007 International Multimedia AVA Award. In 2007, the Library of Congress in the United States included this work in its permanent collection. In 2018, Weimin further advanced this exploration with the immersive virtual reality project Hutong in Live, which integrated VR, 3D design, and 360-degree live production to provide viewers with an immersive experience of the vanished Beijing Hutongs. This project was selected for the CINEQUEST Film and VR Festival and received notable interviews in CBS and media coverage.

Weimin Zhang’s exceptional talent, expertise, and dedication to the art of cinema make her a highly respected figure in both the industry and academia. Her contributions as a filmmaker and educator have had a significant impact on the professional field and directly contribute to teaching and learning.

Tianlong Jiao

Chief Curator

Bowers Museum

Dr. Jiao has more than two decades of experience in museum curation and administration, both in the United States and Hong Kong. He has served as head curator at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, head and curator of the Asian art department at the Denver Art Museum, head and curator of the Chinese art department at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and chairman of the anthropology department at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii.

At the Bowers Museum, Dr. Jiao manages the permanent collection, which comprises more than 100,000 objects; oversee loans and traveling objects; helm new acquisitions; and refresh onsite permanent galleries. A special emphasis will be placed under his stewardship on Asian-featured exhibitions, a domain in which the Bowers Museum has particular strengths.



Jiao holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University, a master’s degree in archaeology from the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and a bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Beijing University. He has done extensive research in Chinese archaeology, art history, Pacific archaeology and Japanese ceramics. He has authored seven books and over 100 academic papers, both in English and Chinese.