Matthew D. JohnsonMatthew D. Johnson is Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Grinnell College, US. As a doctoral student he conducted one of the first oral histories of China's early socialist film industry, and is currently working on a book-length project tiled The Most Important Art: Motion Pictures as Political Communication in Maoist China. He has written on mass media, documentary cinema, and U.S.-China transnational relations, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Read More Read Less