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Yau Ching

Yau Ching (; born 1966) is a Hong Kong writer, filmmaker, and scholar. She was educated in Hong Kong, New York City and London.

Biography

Yau was born and raised in Hong Kong. She majored in English and comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong and graduated in 1988. She briefly attended California State University to pursue a master's degree in theatre arts but withdrew after three months. After "what happened in 1989", she decided to study abroad again in 1990 and completed a master's degree in media studies at The New School for Social Research. During her studies, she was also accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program in Studio Art, where filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, impressed by a short film she produced, invited her to spend a year studying filmmaking. From 1998 to 2003, she earned a PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and conducted postdoctoral research as a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the University of Hawaii from 2004 to 2005. She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of California, San Diego, and Lingnan University. Currently, she is a professor at National Central University in Taiwan.

Work

Bibliography

Her books include:

  • Stripping pants (Chun Hung Press, 1999)
  • Building a new stove (Youth Literary Press, 1996)
  • The impossible home (2000)
  • Ho Yuk – Let's Love Hong Kong: Script and Critical Essays (2002)
  • Filming Margins: Tang Shu Shuen, a Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Director (2004)
  • Sexing Shadows: Gender and Sexuality in Hong Kong Cinema (2006)
  • Sexual Politics (ed.) (2006)
  • As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender In Mainland China and Hong Kong (ed.). (2010)
  • Big Hairy Egg (2011)
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: Hong Kong Cultural Critique (2014)
  • Shadow Beings (2015), You Yu Yi: Yau Ching's Critical Writings on Art (2015)
  • Yau Ching's Critical Writings on Film 1987-2016 (2017)

Filmography and visual art

Films and video works include:

  • Is There Anything Specific You Want Me to Tell You About? (1990)
  • Flow (1993), The Ideal / Na(rra)tion (1993)
  • Video Letters 1-3 (1993-4)
  • Diasporama: Dead Air (1997)
  • June 30, 1997 (aka Celebrate What?) (1997)
  • Finding Oneself (commissioned by Radio Television Hong Kong) (2000)
  • Ho Yuk (Let's Love Hong Kong) (2002)
  • In My Father’s House, There are Many Mansions (2004)
  • We Are Alive (2010)

Ho Yuk - Let's Love Hong Kong won the Critic's Grand Prize for Fiction at the 2002 Figueira da Foz International Film Festival.

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