Professor / Associate Professor / Lecturer / Post-doctoral Fellow in Meishi Film Academy – Chongqing, China

Work type: Full-time

School: Meishi Film Academy

Introduce:

Established in 2000, the Meishi Film Academy offers eight undergraduate programs: Acting, Broadcasting and Hosting Arts, Drama and Film Directing, Drama and Film Literature, Radio and Television Editing and Directing, Film and Television Photography and Production, and Theatre and Film Art Design (with directions in Digital Film and Television Art Design and Character Modeling Design). Among these, the Acting and Broadcasting and Hosting Arts programs are recognized as specialty programs in Chongqing, with the latter being a first-class program in Chongqing and selected as a national first-class program in 2021.

The academy offers an academic master’s degree in Drama and Film Studies under the first-level discipline of Arts, as well as a professional degree in Drama and Film. Drama and Film Studies has been designated a key discipline in Chongqing during the 12th, 13th, and 14th Five-Year Plans. Currently, the academy collaborates with the School of Big Data and Software Engineering to maintain the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Film and Television Intelligent Technology and Art, and with the School of Journalism to support the Chongqing Key Discipline Cluster of Journalism, Communication, and Film Arts. The Chongqing University Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries is also housed within the academy.

The academy currently enrolls nearly 1,000 undergraduate students and over 200 master’s students. The faculty consists of 56 full-time teachers, including 9 professors and 22 associate professors. Additionally, the academy employs several renowned experts, scholars, directors, and actors from both academia and the industry as guest professors and part-time master’s supervisors.

The academy’s dedicated teaching building and Film and Media Arts Teaching Experiment Center cover over 10,000 square meters and are equipped with comprehensive facilities, including a library and audio-visual archive, film studios, TV studios, a small theater, academic lecture halls, a film mixing studio, digital slicing rooms, digital HD non-linear editing labs, photography labs, Foley labs, computer-aided design labs, stage design model rooms, makeup labs, rehearsal rooms, listening rooms, piano rooms, and physical training rooms.

The academy has established strong cooperative relationships with domestic film and television media, production companies, art schools, and major international film art institutions. The academy’s development goal is to align with Chongqing University’s “Double First-Class” initiative, aiming to build the academy into a highland for film and television art education that integrates teaching, research, and creation, and to become a first-class film academy nationally and internationally renowned.

Contacts:

+86-23-65111909

How to Apply:

Applicants are required to submit their resumes, including research achievements, via email wsg@cqu.edu.cn. The subject of the email should be formatted as “Name + Department + Discipline Direction + Position”.

Or apply online: http://recruit.cqu.edu.cn/product/mrecruit/index.html#/?FM_SYS_ID=cqdx

Position List：

1. Hongshen Distinguished Scholar Professor
2. Hongshen Outstanding Scholar Professor
3. Hongshen Excellent Scholar Professor
4. Hongshen Young Scholar Professor
5. Professor, Tenure-track Professor
6. Associate Professor, Tenure-track Associate Professor
7. Hongshen Young Teacher

Position Details:

Hongshen Distinguished Scholar Professor

Application Requirements: Candidates must demonstrate profound scientific knowledge and academic achievements in their field, with significant, innovative accomplishments and contributions. They should possess broad vision, forward-looking judgment, interdisciplinary understanding, and strong organizational leadership skills. Alternatively, candidates may be master-level scholars with high academic reputation and influence both domestically and internationally.

Benefits: To be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

Hongshen Outstanding Scholar Professor

Application Requirements: Candidates must have profound academic attainments and significant achievements in scientific research recognized by peers both domestically and internationally.

Candidates should have the ability to lead their field to meet or surpass international standards and to lead academic teams in collaborative research efforts.

Benefits:

• Pre-tax annual salary of RMB 800,000, with additional performance-based rewards;
• Appointment as a professor, with the qualification to supervise doctoral students;
• In addition to national research funding, the university provides RMB 800,000 for humanities and social sciences and RMB 1000,000-3000,000 for science and engineering as research start-up funds and related research platform funding;
• Relocation allowance of RMB 2000,000;
• Full funding support for postdoctoral positions;
• Assistance with employment for spouses and schooling for children, along with other necessary working and living conditions.

Hongshen Excellent Scholar Professor

Application Requirements: Candidates must exhibit great potential for innovative development, with outstanding academic achievements in their research field recognized by peer experts, and potential to become a leader in their discipline.

Benefits:

• Pre-tax annual salary of RMB 600,000, with additional performance-based rewards;
• Appointment as a professor, with the qualification to supervise doctoral students;
• In addition to national research funding, the university provides RMB 600,000 for humanities and social sciences and RMB 1000,000-3000,000 million for science and engineering as research start-up funds and related research platform funding;
• Maximum relocation allowance of RMB 2100,000 million;
• Full funding support for postdoctoral positions;
• Assistance with employment for spouses and schooling for children.

Hongshen Young Scholar Professor

Application Requirements: Candidates should have at least 2 years of academic work experience, have shown significant potential in their research field, achieved high academic accomplishments, and have strong potential for innovative development.

Benefits:

• Pre-tax annual salary of RMB 350,000-450,000, with additional performance-based rewards;
• Appointment as a professor, with the qualification to supervise doctoral students;
• The university provides RMB 1000,000-2000,000 million for science and engineering and RMB 300,000-500,000 for humanities and social sciences as research start-up funds and related research platform funding;
• The university provides a relocation allowance of RMB 500,000-600,000;
• Assistance with schooling for children.

Professor, Tenure-track Professor

Application Requirements: Candidates must demonstrate high academic achievements, with academic results in the past 5 years exceeding or meeting the standards required for the corresponding high-level positions at the university.

Benefits:

• Implementation of performance-based salary;
• Relocation allowance of RMB 400,000-600,000;
• Research start-up funds of RMB 600,000-1000,000 for science and engineering, and RMB 200,000-400,000 for humanities and social sciences.

Associate Professor, Tenure-track Associate Professor

Application Requirements: Candidates must demonstrate significant academic achievements and potential, with academic results exceeding or meeting the standards required for the corresponding associate high-level positions at the university or for postdoctoral candidates.

Benefits:

• Implementation of performance-based salary;
• Relocation allowance of RMB 250,000;
• Research start-up funds of RMB 200,000-300,000 for science and engineering, and RMB 50,000-100,000 for humanities and social sciences.

Hongshen Young Teacher

Application Requirements: Candidates should be doctoral graduates from other universities who possess an excellent academic background and achievements, have produced high-quality research outcomes, and demonstrate significant potential for innovative development.

Benefits:

• For the first 3 years, the pre-tax salary of RMB 250,000/year, with additional performance-based rewards. After passing the mid-term assessment, performance-based salary will be implemented according to the professional position standards.
• Relocation allowance of RMB 200,000;
• Research start-up funds of RMB 100,000 for science, engineering, and medical sciences, and RMB 50,000 for humanities and social sciences;
• During the appointment period, if the candidates are selected for the national postdoctoral innovative talent support plan, salary will be increased during the funding period.
• Hongshen Young Teachers can independently choose to enter the postdoctoral mobile station. If they enter the postdoctoral mobile station and stay in Chongqing for work after completing the postdoctoral period, an additional subsidy of RMB 150,000 will be provided by the Chongqing municipal government.

Company

Company info: http://www.msfilm.cqu.edu.cn/

Mini-site: Chongqing University

Location: Chongqing, China