Weihua Wu is currently professor of media studies in the Faculty of Journalism and Communication at the Communication University of China in Beijing. He received his PhD from the City University of Hong Kong, and then joined the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2006. He was also a Fulbright research fellow at the department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 2014-2015. As an academic, his research focuses on, but is not limited to, visual communication, Internet and youth culture, and animation studies. Weihua’s books include Critical Introduction to New Media (in Chinese, Fudan University Press, 2016), and Chinese Animation, Creative Industry, and Digital Culture (in English, Routledge, 2018).