![Zhuoyi Wang discusses Maoist cinema on April 6 at OU.](https://www.hamilton.edu/assets/mmlibrary/images/185x/wangzhuoyi-at-uo-april-2015-web.jpg)
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang presented an invited talk on April 6 at the University of Oklahoma (OU). “From Disaster to Laughter: Making Comedies in the Changing Political Landscape of the People’s Republic of China, 1959-1963” was presented as part of the Presidential Dream Course roundtable on Maoist cinema and focused on Chinese comedy films produced during the Maoist era.