Academic & Teaching Staff Academic & Teaching Staff
Prof. LAU Wai Sim, Dorothy

Associate Professor

Contact: 

Email: dorolau@hkbu.edu.hk
Tel: 34118099

Education: 

PhD, Comparative Literature,The University of Hong Kong

Areas of Interest: 

Star studies, fan studies, celebrity culture, celebrity philanthropy, digital culture, screen culture, Hong Kong cinema, East Asian cinema, auteurs

Major Highlights: 

AWARDS, HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS

  • 2023 - Faculty/School of Creative Arts Performance Award in Service, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2023 - Long Sevice Award, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2022 - Visiting Scholar, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
  • 2022 - Faculty/School/Academy of Visual Arts Performance Award in Scholarly Work (Early Career Researcher), Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work 2018/19 by School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University


PUBLICATIONS

Single-authored Books

  • Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary. Amsterdam University Press. (Forthcoming 2024)
  • East Asian Auteurs, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era (working title). (under contract with Edinburgh University Press) 
  • Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Network: Voice, Ethnicity, Power, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021.
  • Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Hong Kong Baptist University, Start-up Grant (Tier 2). “World Cinephilia and Asian Filmmakers in the Post-cinematic Era”. Principal investigator. HKD240,000.
  • UGC RGC Early Career Scheme, “Renegotiating Film Authorship in Cyberspace: Chinese Filmmakers, Global Fans, Politics of Participation." Principal Investigator. HKD405,000. 2020.
  • UGC RGC Competitive Research Funding Schemes: The Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), “Reimagining Chinese Celebrities in the Cosmopolitical Order: Humanitarianism, Social Media, Fan Identification.” Principal Investigator. HKD524,431. 2018.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
  • 2012    Ph.D., Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong
    • Thesis title: Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
    • Thesis supervisor: Professor Esther C.M. Yau
  • 2002    M.Phil., Communications, Hong Kong Baptist University
    • Thesis title: Hong Kong Auteurs in Hollywood: The Case of John Woo
    • Thesis supervisor: Professor Yeh Yueh-yu
  • 1999    BA, Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong (Honor: Second Upper)

 

POSITIONS
  • 2023 - current Associate Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2018 - 2023     Assistant Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2013 - 2018     Lecturer, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2012 - 2013     Lecturer (part-time), Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong
  • 2005 – 2009    College Lecturer, Center for International Degree Programmes/Community College & School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong
  • 2002 -- 2005    Lecturer, Department of English, Chu Hai College of Higher Education

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Stardom, celebrity, fandom, Asian cinema, Sinophone cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture, screen culture

 

RESEARCH GRANT
  • 2021    Hong Kong Baptist University, One-off Tier 2 Start-up Grant

Project title: “World Cinephilia and Asian Filmmakers in Post-cinematic Era”. Principal Investigator

Grant: HKD240,000

  • 2020    UGC RGC Early Career Scheme

Project title: Renegotiating Film Authorship in Cyberspace: Chinese Filmmakers, Global Fans, Politics of Participation. Principal Investigator

Grant: HKD405,000

  • 2018    UGC RGC Competitive Research Funding Schemes: The Faculty Development Scheme (FDS)

Project title: “Reimagining Chinese Celebrities in the Cosmopolitical Order: Humanitarianism, Social Media, Fan Identification.” Principal Investigator

Grant: HKD524,431

  • 2018    Hong Kong Baptist University, One-off Tier 1 Start-up Grant

Project title: “Asian Celebrities and Humanitarianism in the Global Age”. Principal Investigator

Grant: HKD100,000

  • 2016    Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University

Project title: “Chinese Film Stardom in New Media Landscape.” Principal Investigator

Grant: HKD20,000.

 

AWARDS, HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS
  • 2023    Faculty/School of Creative Arts Performance Award in Service, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2023    Long Service Award, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2022    Visiting Scholar, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
  • 2022    Faculty/School/Academy of Visual Arts Performance Award in Scholarly Work (Early Career Researcher), Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2019    Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work 2018/19 by School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • 2007    Excellent Team Performance Bronze Award by School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong (2006/2007)
  • 2005    Silver Prize (Translated Works) of Gold Medallion Book Awards by the Association of Chinese Publishers, Hong Kong

 

PUBLICATIONS

Single-authored Books

  • The Discourse of Ageing in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema: The Silvering Entanglement (under contract of Edinburgh University Press).
  • East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era: Film Authorship Rethought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2025.
  • Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2024.
  • Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Network: Voice, Ethnicity, Power, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021.
  • Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

 

Referred Book Chapters / Journal Articles (Selected)
  • “Michelle Yeoh and the Aging Discourse of Asian Female Celebrities.” Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity, Taylor, Anthea and McIntyre, Joanna, eds. Routledge. (Forthcoming 2026)
  • Co-author with Donnar, Glen. “Crisis, Vulnerability and Aged Action Stars: Hong Kong Celebrity Politics in an Era of Turmoil.” Asian Celebrity and Digital Media: The Transformation of Asian Celebrity Culture in the Digital Age, Xu, Jian, Donnar, Glen and Garg, Divya, eds. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2025.
  • “Zhang Ziyi: An Alternative Female Martial Arts Stardom and The Logic of Indeterminacy”. Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. Barrowman, Kyle, ed. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2024.
  • “Renegotiating Jia Zhangke’s Contentious Auteurism on Douban.” Journal of Chinese Film Studies 4(1), 2024.
  • “Mashing-up the Bible’s “Passion” Story: Transmedia Adaptation and User Participation in the Post-celluloid Era.” Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptations in the 21st Century. Chua, Brandon and Ho, Elizabeth, eds. London: Routledge. 2023.
  • Co-edit with Tan, Kenneth Paul. Special Issue: Narrating Cold Wars. Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images. 2(2), 2022.
  • “Asian Celebrity Capital in Digital Media Networks: Scandal, Body Politics and Nationalism.” Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile. Kim, Youna, ed. London and New York: Routledge. 2022. 139-151.
  • “Charity, Cantopop Stardom and the Pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s Online Concert 2020.” Celebrity Studies 12(4): 2021. 689-692.
  • “Aamir Khan and Celebrity Humanitarianism in Asia: Towards a Cosmopolitical Persona.” Celebrity Studies 12(2): 2021. 234-249.
  • “Gazing of the Wuxia Body: Digital Visual Effects, Looking Relations, and Spectatorship in Peter Chan’s Wu Xia (2011).” Digital Culture and Humanities: Challenges and Developments in a Globalized Asia. Kung, Kaby Wing-sze, ed. Singapore: Springer Singapore. 2020. 17-30.
  • “Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Co-creative Culture, and Transnational Chinese Icons on YouTube.” Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences, Park, Hyesu. Ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2020.
  • “Discussing Takeshi Kaneshiro: The Polysemic, Pan-Asian Star Image on Internet Fan Forums,” positions: asia media critique 26(4): 2018. 687-718.
  • “Donnie Yen’s Star Persona in Amateur-produced Videos on YouTube,” Transformative Works and Culture 28, 10th anniversary issue, “The Future of Fandom”. 2018.   
  • “On (Not) Speaking English: The ‘Phonic’ Personae of Transnational Chinese Stars in the Global Visual Network.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 12(1), 2018: 20-40.
  • “Reframing Celebrities in the Post-Handover Hong Kong: Political Advocacy, Social Media, and the Performance of Denise Ho,” Hong Kong Studies 1(1), 2018: 51-65.
  • “Rearticulating Bruce Lee and his ‘Hip-Hop Fury’ in Fan Made Videos” in Lasting Screen Stars: Personas that Endure and Images that Fade. eds. Lucy Bolton and Julie Lobalzo Wright, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 291-303.
  • “‘Friending’ Jet Li on Facebook: The Chinese Celebrity Persona in Online Social Network.” Journal of Asian Cinema 26(2), 2016: 169-192.
  • Remediating the Star Body: Donnie Yen’s Kung Fu Persona in Hypermedia,” Studies in Media and Communication 4(2), 2016: 90-98.
  • “The Matrix Hero on YouTube: Fan Vids as a Form of Transmedia Storytelling.” Social Media: Global Perspectives, Applications and Benefits and Dangers. Bennet, Annmarie, ed. New York: Nova Science Publishers. 2014, 89-106.
  • “Actor or Ambassador? The Star Persona of Jackie Chan in Social Media.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. March 2014: 1-17.
  • “Donnie Yen’s Wing Chun Body as a Cyber-Intertext.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 7 (2), 2013: 157-173.
  • “The Flickering of Jackie Chan: Transnational Chinese Film Stardom, Web 2.0, and the Signification of Performance.” The International Journal of the Humanities 8 (2), 2010: 11-22.
  • “Between Personal Signature and Industrial Standards: John Woo as a Hong Kong Auteur in Hollywood.” LEWI Working Paper Series 22. Hong Kong Baptist University. 3.2004.

 

Manuscripts Submitted/Accepted/Under Review

As Editor

Michelle Yeoh: Everything and Everywhere on Global Film Screens. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (in production)

 

As Author

  • “Intraregional Star Currency: Michelle Yeoh’s Goodwill Image and her Southeast Asian Connections in the Intermedial Space.” Inter-Asia Intermediality. Bernards, Brian and Gonzaga, Elmo, eds. Routledge. (accepted)
  • “Performing as a Goodwill Ambassador: Michelle Yeoh’s Humanitarian and Eco-Conscious Persona in Global Media.” Michelle Yeoh: Everything and Everywhere on Global Film Screens. Funnell, Lisa, Wong, Wayne, and Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim, eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (in production)
  • “Transcultural Star Phenomenon: Tony Leung Chiu-wai’s Fame and Reception in South Korea.” Special Issue: Destination Hong Kong. Journal of Chinese Cinemas. (submitted)
  • “Reimagining Aging on the Contemporary Hong Kong Screen: Rejuvenation, Performative Bodies, and Star Embodiment in Time (2021).” The Hong Kong Film Book. Yeung, Jessica, Van den Troost, Kristof, Choi, Emilie, and Tam, Enoch, eds. Leiden: Brill. (submitted)

(accepted)

 

Translation Projects
  • From Chinese to English
    • Cheuk, Pak Tong, Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000), Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2008.
  • From English to Chinese
    • Godawa, Brian. Hollywood Worldview: Watching Film with Wisdom and Discernment. Hong Kong: FES Press. 2005.
    • Bordwell, David. “Transnational Space: Toward a Poetics of Chinese Cinema.” Film Appreciation Journal 104. 6-8. 2000: 15-25, Co-trans. with Yeh Yueh-yu.
    • Kleinhans, Chuck. “Becoming Hollywood: New Era of Hong Kong.” Film Appreciation Journal 105, 9-11. 2000: 23-28, Co-trans. with Yeh Yueh-yu.

 

INVITED SEMINARS, TALKS, AND GUEST LECTURES (ACADEMIC)
  • Speaker, ‘Book Talk: East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era:
  • Film Authorship Rethought.” City Book Room, Singapore, organized by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 31, 2026.
  • Speaker, ‘Rethinking Chinese Stardom In and Beyond Sinophone Media Culture: A “Linguaphonic” Paradigm.’ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. March 30, 2026.
  • Guest lecturer, “Hong Kong Films as Cultural Texts: Identity, Industry, Local-Global Dialectics.” The University of Hong Kong. March 6, 2026.
  • Speaker, ‘Book Talk: East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era:
  • Film Authorship Rethought.” The University of British Columbia. January 28, 2026.
  • Speaker, ‘Book Talk: East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era:
  • Film Authorship Rethought.” Hong Kong Baptist University. November 10, 2025.
  • Panel Chair, “Rethinking Asian-ness in Border Crossing: Contemporary Asian Cinema in the Contexts of Extremity, Diaspora and the Post-Film Festival Era.” Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference. The University of Hong Kong. May 23, 2025.
  • Discussant, the ‘Destination Hong Kong: South Korean Cinema’s Encounter with Chinese-Language Cinemas’ Conference. City University of Hong Kong. May 17, 2025.
  • Guest lecturer, “Celebrity and Cause: Goodwill Ambassadorship in the Changing Times of Humanitarianism.” HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. April 29, 2025.
  • Speaker, ‘“It is the Greatest Love of All”: The English-language Persona of Danny Chan.’ Reaching the Star: Symposium of Danny Chan and Hong Kong Popular Culture (
  • Reaching the Star: Symposium of Danny Chan and Hong Kong Popular Culture (
  • Speaker, “Asian Celebrities Care! - Book Talk on Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary.” Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. March 19, 2025.  
  • Speaker, “East Asian Auteur Films and Wong Kar-wai.” Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy. Hong Kong Baptist University. March 12, 2025.
  • Speaker, “Asian Celebrities and Goodwill Mobilizations: The Case of Aamir Khan.” MSU Asian Studies Center. November 12, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Role of Film in Hong Kong Today.” Oxford University Hong Kong Scholars Association, July 1, 2023.
  • Speaker, “Reconfiguring Wong Kar-wai in China’s Platformized Cinephilic Culture.” Sheffield Center for Research in Film, University of Sheffield, April 26, 2023.
  • Speaker, “East Asian Stars and the Transnational Reception: The Case of Michelle Yeoh.” School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, March 17, 2023.
  • Speaker, “Piccadilly (1929).” Panel: Women’s Representations in ‘Specialized Film’. The 2023 Mint Chinese Film Festival, February 4, 2023.
  • Speaker, “Recoding Asian Stars in the Cocreative Media Culture: Donnie Yen’s Persona in Digital Amateur Videos”, University of Sheffield, December 13, 2022.
  • Speaker, “Chinese Female Star Power in Translingual Media Culture: The Case of Michelle Yeoh.” China Center, University of Oxford, November 23, 2022.
  • Speaker, “The Silvering Hong Kong Screen: Time (2021), Representation of Old Age, and the Discourse of Aging Stardom.” Oxford University Hong Kong Scholars Association. November 19, 2022.
  • Speaker, “Reimagining East Asian Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro’s Multilingual Media Persona,” SEAS seminar series. University of Sheffield, November 11, 2022.
  • Speaker and respondent, “Intraregional Star Currency: Michelle Yeoh’s Goodwill Image and her Southeast Asian Connections in the Intermedial Space”. Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop. Part II: The Chinese University of Hong Kong. June 11, 2022.
  • Speaker, “The Silvering of Genre and Stardom: Time (2021), ‘Old Age’, and Rejuvenation on Contemporary Hong Kong Screen.” UBC Cantonese Popular Culture Master Class. University of British Columbia. February 22, 2022.
  • Speaker, “Re-examining Bruce Lee’s Kung Fu Persona in the Cyber Frontier: An Aural-based Approach.” SEAS seminar series. The University of Sheffield. December 3, 2021.
  • Speaker, “Asian Female Power On- and Off-screen: Michelle Yeoh’s Stardom in the Translingual Media Culture.” Research Postgraduate Program. Hong Kong Baptist University. November 16, 2021.
  • Speaker, “Construction and Reception of Transnational Chinese Stars in Global Film Networks: The Case of Michelle Yeoh.” American Studies Program. The University of Hong Kong. October 8, 2021.
  • Speaker, Book Talk: Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Network: Voice, Ethnicity, Power. Hong Kong Baptist University. June 17, 2021.
  • Moderator, “UBC Cantonese Popular Culture Master Class - The Many Stories of Hong Kong Films.” UBC Cantonese Popular Culture Master Class. Organized by University of British Columbia. May 21, 2021.
  • Moderator, “Hong Kong, Reimagined”: Dialogue with Alex Law. Organized by UK-China Film Collab, May 5, 2021.
  • Speaker, “Reworking of Film Star Persona in Amateur-produced Online Videos.” HKBU-SHU Online Workshop on Smart Media Technologies, AI and Ethics, and Film Arts. September 29, 2020.
  • Speaker, “Charity, Cantopop Stardom and the Pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s Online Concert.” The Asian Pandemic Panel Series: Asian Celebrity and the Pandemic: Misreading the Room?. Web. June 18, 2020.
  • Speaker, “From the Celluloid Screen to the Cyber Screen: Re-reading Film Stars in Participatory Culture.” The Read & Red: Pillars of PolyU Lecture Series, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. October 14, 2019.
  • Speaker, “Reimagining Film Stars in Cyberculture: Donnie Yen’s Martial Arts Body, Digital Poetics, and Co-creative Media Economies,” The Visual Cultural Studies program, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. September 27, 2019.
  • Moderator, “Constructing Ideas of Nation and Identity in Bollywood”. Organized by Hong Kong Baptist University. September 24, 2019.
  • Speaker, “Intermedial Star Construction in the 1980s’ Hong Kong Cinema.” The Fourth International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia: Taiwan and Hong Kong Cinemas during the 1980s, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, April 27-28, 2019.
  • Host, post-screening talk of Canine. Co-organized by Taiwan Independent Documentary Festival and Hong Kong Baptist University. April 11, 2019.
  • Moderator, Director’s sharing session of A Woman is a Woman. Organized by Hong Kong Baptist University. April 4, 2019.
  • Speaker, “Chinese Celebrities in Participatory Cyberspace.” The Education University of Hong Kong, March 28, 2019.
  • Speaker, “Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture.” Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 25, 2019.
  • Speaker, “Reinventing Film Stardom in Digital Culture.” The University of Hong Kong. March 15, 2019.
  • Speaker, “Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture.” Hong Kong Baptist University, January 25, 2019.
  • Panelist, Post-screening discussion of Tracey. Organized by Hong Kong Baptist University. November 22, 2018.
  • Discussant, International Research Postgraduate Conference on Method in Asia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. October 27, 2018.
  • Speaker, “Isango Ensemble - U-Carmen eKhayelitsha”, HK Arts Festival 2018 & Hong Kong Baptist University, February 8, 2018.
  • Speaker, “Watch Great Movies - Breathless”, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, January 24, 2017.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
  • Speaker, “Aamir Khan in China: Transcultural Stardom and Sino-Indian Cultural Reimagination.” ‘India in Asia: Asia in India: Transcultural Film Practices, Circulations, and Histories’ Conference. City University of Hong Kong. May 29, 2026.
  • “Cinephilic Remediation of the East Asian Auteurist Brand on Digital Platforms: The Case of Bong Joon-ho.” AAS Annual Conference. Seattle. March 15, 2024.
  • “Exploring Celebrity Humanitarianism in Asia: Aamir Khan’s Cosmopolitical Persona in Transmedia Space.” Starring Asia: A Three-Day Conference on Asian Stardom and Celebrity, Melbourne, Australia, December 2-4 2019.
  • “Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Participatory Culture, and Donnie Yen’s Image on YouTube,” AAS-in-Asia, New Delhi, July 7, 2018.
  • ‘“Who is Mr. Kam, or … Mr. Kim?”: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Intermediality, and East-Asian Star Construction in the Culture of Convergence,’ Asia Intermedialities: New Objects, Themes, and Methods at the Convergence of East and Southeast Asian Cultural and Media Studies, Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 26, 2018.
  • “When Martial Arts Meets Star Wars: Amateur-produced Videos, Knowledge of Stars, Discursive Power.” The Third International Conference in Pop Culture and Education, Hong Kong: The Education University of Hong Kong, July 20, 2017.
  • ‘Remembering the “Dragon”: Fan-made Video Tributes of Bruce Lee in the Digital Participatory Era.’ Interdisciplinary Conference: Research and Teaching in the Digital Era: Dialogues on Screen, Literary, and Ecocritical Studies, Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, May 24, 2017.
  • ‘Authenticating the Martial Arts Body in Hong Kong Cinema: The Case of Dragon Tiger Gate.” RIDCH Conference: Digital Art and Film, Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong, July 4-6, 2016.
  • “Gazing of the Wuxia Body: Digital Visual Effects, Looking Relations, and Peter Chan’s Wu Xia (2011),” RIDCH Conferences: Digitization and Reconceptualizations of the Humanities, Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong, December 17-18, 2015.
  • “The Ethnic Star Phenomenon in Participatory Cyberculture: Chinese Movie Stardom, Zhang Ziyi, and YouTube,” The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Osaka, Japan, April 5-8, 2012.
  • “The Martial-Arts Body as Cyber-Intertext: The Case of Donnie Yen,” Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 16-20, 2012.
  • “Friending the Star in the Networked, Participatory Culture: The Case of Jet Li on Facebook,” Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association Conference (Computer Culture Area), Albuquerque, USA, February 8-11, 2012.
  • “The Flickering of Jackie Chan: Cosmopolitan Chinese Film Stardom, Web 2.0, and the Signification of Performance.” China-West: Cosmopolitics, Memory and Visual Media in the 21st Century, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 11-12, 2010.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Editorial Board Member

  • Book series on Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies, Bloomsbury Academic (2021-current)

 

Managing Editor

  • Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images (2021-2025)

 

Peer Reviewer

Journals

  • Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
  • Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
  • Quarterly Review of Film and Video
  • Journal of Asian Cinema
  • Celebrity Studies
  • European Journal of Cultural Studies
  • China Perspectives
  • Chinese Journal of Communication
  • Ex-position
  • Plaridel Journal
  • Journal of Chinese Film Studies
  • Global Media and China
  • International Journal of Cultural Studies
  • Journal of Cultural Research
  • Journal of Chinese Cinemas

 

Academic Publishers

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • Rutgers University Press
  • Bloomsbury Academics

 

Postgraduate Exam Board / Accreditation Panel
  • June 2026 - Oral examination, PhD, City University of Hong Kong
  • May 2026 - Member of the Accreditation Panel for the Postal Accreditation of Mass Media and Communication, Journalism and Public Relations Programme Area Accreditation, School of Continuing Education, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • June 2025 - Oral examination, PhD, The University of Hong Kong
  • December 2023 - Oral examination, PhD, University of Sheffield
  • September 2023 - Prospectus presentation, PhD, Nanyang Technological University
  • June 2023 - Oral examination, PhD, University of Oxford
  • September 2021 - Oral examination, MPhil, The University of Hong Kong

 

Community Service (as Invited Speaker)
  • Film Salon - Time, organized by The Mission Covenant Church Oriental Church, April 17, 2026.
  • Film Salon - White Building, organized by The Mission Covenant Church Oriental Church, October 17, 2025.
  • Film Salon - Time Still Turns the Pages, organized by The Mission Covenant Church Oriental Church, April 25, 2025.
  • Film Salon - Lost Love, organized by The Mission Covenant Church Oriental Church, January 17, 2025.
  • Moviement, organized by The Aslan Spirit. Hong Kong. (starting from June 2024)
  • “From Hong Kong to Hollywood: Michelle Yeoh’s Transnational Star Image and its Cultural Politics.” (
  • Film Salon - Mad World, organized by Mission Covenant Church Oriental Church, September 18, 2019.
  • “On The Sentence”, Sundance Friday: Women Power, organized by Sundance Film Festival, Hong Kong. December 7, 2018.
  • organized by Spiritual Formation International. Hong Kong. November 12, 2016.
  • “Trauma and Transcendence: The Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda and an Exploration of Spirituality”
  • “Isango Ensemble - U-Carmen eKhayelitsha”, co-organized by HK Arts Festival 2018 & Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. February 8, 2018.
  • “Local Culture and Foreign Influence: The Film Environment that Shaped John Woo,” organized by Hong Kong Film Archive, Hong Kong, December 12, 2002.

 

Adjudicator
  • The Global University Film Awards (first round selection): 2018, 2000, 2022
  • The Second Global University Film Awards (first round selection): 2019

 

Media Interview

 

MEMBERSHIP
  • The Asian Media and Cultural Studies Network (2020-current)
  • Chinese Communication Association (2014-15)