Shenshen Cai is a Chinese lecturer with Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. She completed her PhD in contemporary Chinese culture studies at the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests focus on contemporary Chinese literature, film, theatre and folklore studies. Shenshen is the author of State Propaganda in China's Entertainment Industry (2016), Television Drama in Contemporary China: Political, Social and Cultural Phenomena (2016) and Contemporary Chinese Films and Celebrity Directors (2017).