Yau Ching
Hong Kong writer, filmmaker and scholar (born 1966)
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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]
Biography
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]
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.[6][7]