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Dr Yau, Esther Ching Mei 丘靜美

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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 JournalFilm QuarterlyThe Oxford History of World CinemaDiscourseQuarterly Review of Film and VideoWide AngleDangdai 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.

 
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