Dr Paul Kendall

I am a full-time senior lecturer in Chinese cultural studies. I originally came to the Contemporary China Centre to study for a PhD in 2010, following an MMUS in ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Prior to postgraduate study, I worked as a music journalist in Beijing, primarily producing scripts and articles for China Radio International and Time Out Beijing.

My earlier research drew on ethnographic and textual data to explore the relationship between city branding, built environment and leisure in the production of urban Chinese space. More recently, I have been working on memories and representations of the Third Front, a huge military-industrial project launched in the 1960s. I also write about Chinese animation, with a particular interest in continuities and discontinuities of cultural production across the Mao-Reform divide. 

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.