Dr Yau, Esther Ching Mei 丘靜美
Dr Yau, Esther Ching Mei 丘靜美
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| University of California Los Angeles | PhD |
Esther C.M. YAU, Ph.D. (UCLA) has written on Hong Kong cinema and globalization, China's Fifth Generation, gender and film, trauma and testimony, and New Wave directors. She has published essays in The Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, The Oxford History of World Cinema, Discourse, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Wide Angle, Dangdai Dianying,Jintian, and World Cinema. She has recently published in Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier (2011) and Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity and Diaspora (2009). Her books include: At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World (editor, University of Minnesota Press) and New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics (coeditor, Cambridge University Press). She has co-edited "Asia/Pacific: a Spectral Surface" - a special issue of positions: east Asia cultures critique. She has taught film courses at the University of California (Los Angeles & Irvine) and at the University of Southern California. She was Chair of Asian Studies Department at Occidental College where she directed Critical Studies in Film and Media. She has served as academic consultant of Chinese film exhibition projects at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the National Gallery of Art at Washington, D.C. She is presently working on a study of film testimony and local memory in the cinemas of China and Hong Kong.
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-04-01 | Folk Songs and Affective Culture in Chinese Cold War Cinema: Henry Luce Foundation Asian Studies Faculty Research Grant | Research Achievement | |
| 2011-09-01 | GRF Merit Award 2011-12: Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2010-06-01 | Louis Cha Fund Research Conference Grant. Project Title: China and the West: Cosmopolitics, Collective Memory and Visual Media in the 21st Century: Louis Cha Fund for East/West Studies, University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2012-09-01 | Knowledge Exchange Impact Project 2012-13: "Migration Memory and Creative Digital Narratives": Knowledge Exchange Exercise 2012-2013, University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2012-01-01 | RGC General Research Fund 2011-2012 . Project Title: Transformative Witnessing and Everyday Ethics: A Study of Cultural Memory in Chinese FIlms and Public Discourse": Research Grants Council of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2010-10-01 | Research Grant. Project Title: Local Memories, Testimony and Creativity in Recent Chinese Documentaries: School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2014-02-01 | Experiential Learning Fund 2013-14, "Independent Documentaries Project": University of Hong Kong | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2014-09-01 | Knowledge Exchange Impact Project 2014/15 "Narratives of Connections in Many Accents": University of Hong Kong | Others |
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| March 1986 - Present | Member | Society of Cinema and Media Studies |
| January 2004 - Present | Member | Association of Asian Studies |
| June 2008 - 2011 | Member | University Film and Video Association |
| Area of Expertise (EN) | Area of Expertise (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Post-World War II sinophone cinemas | |
| Globalization and visual culture | |
| Feminist and postcolonial theory | |
| Cinema studies |
| Spoken Language(s) (EN) | Spoken Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English, Cantonese, Putonghua | 英語、粵語、普通話 |
| Written Language(s) (EN) | Written Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English, Chinese | 英文、中文 |
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