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Seio Nakajima
Seio Nakajima is Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He has conducted organizational analyses of the Chinese film industry, as well as ethnographies of Chinese film audiences and consumption. His articles include “Prosumption in Art” (American Behavioral Scientist, 2012), “Re-imagining Civil Society in Contemporary Urban China: Actor-Network-Theory and Chinese Independent Film Consumption” (Qualitative Sociology, 2013), and “Official Chinese Film Awards and Film Festivals: History, Configuration and Transnational Legitimation” (Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2019). He is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Dream Factory, Chinese Style: Institutional Change in the Film Industry, 1978-2019. He is embarking on a new project on the socio-technical analysis of safe driving and autonomous driving technologies, serving as the Director of the Research Institute of Automobile and Parts Industries (RIAPI), Waseda University.
