Research projects under development:
Nation Building and Female Stardom from Occupied Shanghai: Body, Voice and Mind (monograph)
Memory and Legacy of World War II in East and Southeast Asian Popular Culture (edited volume), co-edited with Yan Ying.
Books:
Film History and Screen Culture in and Beyond Greater China, edited by Lin Feng (London: Routledge, 2025)
Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond, co-edited with James Aston (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017) (monograph). [The book was translated and published in Vietnamese in 2021]
Edited Journal volume:
Special Theme Section: China and Cyberspace: From E-Community to E-Democracy? In Chinese Journal of Communication, volume 10, Issue 3, 2017.
Journal articles and book chapters:
“The Labour Value of Republican Film Stars and Celebrity Filmmakers: China Democratic League (CDL) and PRC’s Overseas Propaganda in the Cold War” (in development)
“Chinese Father, Japanese Son: Rebuilding the Sino-Japanese Relationship on the Chinese Film Screen During the Reform Era”, in Memory and Legacy of World War II in East and Southeast Asian Popular Culture, co-edited with Yan Ying (in development).
“Voicing the West: Dubbing Artists and Invisible Labour Behind the Socialist Screen” in Film History and Screen Culture in and Beyond Greater China, edited by Lin Feng. London: Routledge, 2025.
“From Sing Kid to Master Sing: Stephen Chow and Creative Labour Management in Chinese Film Industry”, Cinema of Stephen Chow, edited by Gary Bettinson and Vivan P.Y. Lee (Bloomsbury, 2024).
“Daoism and Diaspora in Post-millennial Taiwanese Martial Arts Films” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 63.5, summer 2024, 219-242.
“The Sound of Chinese Urban Cinema: Multilingualism and the Re-Globalization of Shanghai in the 1990s” in Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, edited by Jeffrey Kyong-McClain, Jingjing Chang and Russell Meeuf. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022.
“Sketching a Dazzling Sun: A Film Review of Maples (dir. Zhang Yi, 1980)” Chinese Independent Cinema Observer, issue 2, August 2021, 268-273.
“Old Shanghai and Film Noir Cross Over” in Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond, edited by Lin Feng and James Aston. (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 217-246.
“Making Them English: The Screen Charisma of British Male Stars and Discourse of Social Class” [in Chinese], Iris, no.104, December 2017, 4-13.
“Online Video Sharing, an Alternative Channel for Film Distribution? Copyright Enforcement, Censorship, and Chinese Independent Cinema” Chinese Journal of Communication, November 2016, 1-16.
“‘I’m Ugly but Gentle’: Performing Xiaorenwu in Chinese Comedies during the Post-Mao Era”, Transnational Cinemas, vol. 5, no.2, 2014, 127-140.
“Crossroads” in Directory of World Cinema: China 2, edited by Gary Bettinson (Bristol: Intellect, 2014), 124-128.
“Translocal Imagination of Hong Kong Connections: The Shifting of Chow Yun-fat’s Star Image Since 1997” in East Asian Film Stars, edited by Andy Willis and Leung Wing-Fai (London: Palgrave, 2014), 113-137.
“The Good, Bad and Ugly: Performing Whiteness in the Chinese Propaganda Cinema 1949-1976” in Image of Whiteness, edited by Clarissa Behar and Anastasia Chung (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013), 53-65.
“Glocalising Chinese Stardom: Internet Publicity and the Construction of Chow Yun-fat’s Transnational Stardom,” Transnational Cinemas, vol.2, no.1, 2011, 77-91.
“Star Endorsement and Hong Kong Cinema: The Social Mobility of Chow Yun-fat 1986-1995,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol.5, no.3, 2011, 269-281.
“Chow Yun-fat: Hong Kong’s Modern TV Xiaosheng” in Chinese Film Stars, edited by Yingjin Zhang and Mary Farquhar (London: Routledge, 2010), 196-206.
