Yau Ching
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游靜 | |
 Yau in April 2014 | |
| Born | Yau Ching 1966 (age 59–60)[1] Hong Kong |
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Yau Ching (Chinese: 游靜; born 1966) is a Hong Kong writer, filmmaker, and scholar. She was educated in Hong Kong, New York City and London.[2]
Yau was born and raised in Hong Kong.[2] She majored in English and comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong and graduated in 1988.[3] She briefly attended California State University to pursue a master's degree in theatre arts but withdrew after three months.[3] 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.[3] 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.[3] 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.[4] She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of California, San Diego, and Lingnan University.[5] Currently, she is a professor at National Central University in Taiwan.[5]
