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.
Conference and symposium presentations:
“Contesting Dichotomous Femininity in Mao’s Film Industry: Female Stars and Representation of the New China”, School of Arts, Media and Communication research seminar (University of Leicester, 10 December 2025)
“Dancing in Chains: Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio and the Creative Performance in the Mao Era”, Film Studios: Histories, Evolution, Innovation conference (Bristol, 5-7 June 2023)
“Daoism and Diasporic Narrative of Taiwan Martial Arts Films (wuxia pian)”, International Perceptions of China: Chinese Culture in International Audio-Visual Culture (University of Southampton, 13 June 2023). [keynote]
“The Changing Image of Nüxia (⼥侠, female warrior) in ‘Dagon Gate’ Films”, 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 25-26 November 2022).
“Contesting Gender Space: Zhou Xuan and Chinese Female Stardom during the Republican Era” Women in East Asian Cinema conference (HOME, Manchester, 4-6 December 2019)
“Performativity in Chinese Artistic Documentaries: A Case Study of Xie Jin’s Huang Baomei (1958)” Conference: Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide (Queen Mary University of London, 15-16 November 2019).
“Looking for a (Chinese) Mother: The Construction of Pan-regional Chineseness in Lotus Lantern (dir. Chang Guangxi, 1999)” Research symposium: Cinemas of the Sinosphere: Border Crossing in Chinese Cinemas (University of Exeter, 20-22 September 2019).
“Shanghai Calling: Imagination of Cosmopolitanism in Co-produced Romantic Dramas” 13th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference (LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 24-26 June 2019)
“Multilingualism in Chinese Urban Films and Re-globalisation of Shanghai in the 1990s” Chinese Cinema in Global Context—Past and Present (University of Idaho, Moscow ID, 14-15 April 2019)
“Finding Next Star: Femininity, Casting and Post-Revolutionary Aesthetics in 1980s’ Chinese Cinema”. Symposium: Casts and Casting: Perspectives from Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 November 2018).
“Republic Star Culture: The Case of Zhou Xuan”. Guest lecture (UCLA, 19 April 2018).
“Shanghai Jazz and Film Noir Crossover”, Rethinking Film Genres: East Asian Cinema and Beyond, conference (University of Hull, 14-15 September 2017)
“Space Remixed: Filming Location, Selective Cosmopolitanism and Translating the Fluidity of Mega Cities in 007 Franchise”. Conference: Cosmopolitanism, World Cities and Circulation of Visual Culture between China and Britain (Shanghai Theatre Academy, 23 June 2017).
“Hear the Unseen: Shanghai Dialect and Taiwan Cinema”, SCMS annual conference (Atlanta, 30 March – 3 April 2016).
“Ghost Shanghai in Taiwan New Cinema and After”. Research symposium: Chinese Cinema: Space, Identity and Politics (University of Nottingham, 5 June 2015).
“Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Transpacific Imagination of Shanghai in Hollywood’s Sci-Fi Films”, SCMS annual conference (Montreal, 25-29 March 2015).
“Piracy, an Alternative Channel for Film Distribution? Online Film Sharing, Censorship and Chinese Independent Cinema”, China in Cyberspace: Platform, Content and Governance, interdisciplinary research workshop (University of Hull, 25 September 2014).
“Somewhere in Between: The Transpacific Imagination of Shanghai in American Independent Cinema since 2000”. Research seminar (University of Southampton, 19 November 2013).
“Behind the Dazzling Lights: The Secret of Cosmopolitan Shanghai in Hollywood Action Blockbusters”, Screen annual conference (University of Glasgow, 28-30 June 2013).
“I’m Ugly but Gentle’: Performing Xiaorenwu (litter character) in Chinese Comedies”, Revisiting Star Studiesconference (Newcastle University, 12-14 June 2013).
“Weaving the Net: Followers, Fame and Film Criticism in an Inter-Media Era”, BAFTSS annual conference: Critics and Criticism: Writing on Audiovisual Media (University of Lincoln, 19-21 April 2013).
“The Good, Bad and Ugly: Performing Whiteness in the Chinese Propaganda Cinema 1949-1976”, Images of Whiteness annual conference: Exploring Critical Issues (Mansfield College Oxford, 7-9 July 2012).
“Beyond the Cultural Revolution: Zhiqing’s Story and the Narrative of Urbanisation in Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema”, New Generation Chinese Cinema, conference (King’s College London, 26-27 May 2011).
“The Construction of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Chow Yun-fat’s Comedies”, MeCCSA annual conference (University of Glasgow, 30 June-1 July 2010).
“The Birth of a Hollywood Star: Chinese Immigrants, Global Labour and Capitalisation of Ethnic Stardom”, 1st International Congress on Chinese Studies Immigration and Cultural Exchanges (Centro de Estudios Chinos Lu Xun, Bilbao, 26-29 November 2008).
“The Birth of a TV Star: Chow Yun-fat, Typecasting and Hong Kong Modern Xiaosheng”, Televising History: Nation, Memory, Identity, postgraduate conference (University of Lincoln, 13-15 June 2007).”Negotiating Transnational Stardom: Chow Yun-fat, Hollywood Blockbusters and Markets”, Identities Negotiations in Contemporary Space(s), postgraduate conference (University of Warwick, 2 December 2006).
Dr Lin Feng 