Biographies
Gina Marchetti teaches courses in film, gender and sexuality, critical theory and cultural studies. Her books include Yellow Peril: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (Berkeley: University of California, 1993), From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006), Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s INFERNAL AFFAIRS—The Trilogy (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007), The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012), and Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi, 2018).
She has co-edited several anthologies, including Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema, with Tan See-Kam (London: Routledge, 2007), Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity and Diaspora, with Peter X Feng and Tan See-Kam (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009), Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier, with Esther M. K. Cheung and Tan See-Kam (HKUP, 2011), and The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema, with See Kam Tan and Aaron Magnan-Park (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Her current research interests include women filmmakers in the HKSAR, China and world cinema, and contemporary trends in Asian and Asian American film culture.
Yuqian Cai holds an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University and an MALS degree in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College. He lived in Italy before moving to Hong Kong in 2019. His research interests include narrative, creative methodologies, and interdisciplinary studies in literature and social sciences.
Georgina Challen holds an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Hong Kong. She has had a varied career, working in the NGO and aviation sectors in Hong Kong before moving into education. She was the Faculty’s Public Affairs Manager from 2010 to 2017. She currently supports the Faculty’s Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity. Her research interests include gender representations in film and advertising, and food and travel writing.
Lorraine Lau holds an MSt in World Literatures in English from the University of Oxford. She is currently working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. Through her research and writing, she hopes to explore Hong Kong identity as an intersection between various voices, cultures, and ideas.
Louis Lu graduated from the University of Hong Kong with an MA degree in Literary and Cultural Studies. He is interested in the intersection of ecology, animal studies, film studies and the creative arts.
Christine Vicera is a writer, researcher, and filmmaker. At the heart of her interdisciplinary research and praxis lies a broader interest in the relationship between memory, diaspora, and post-/anti-/decoloniality in the context of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, specifically the Philippines. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism, Ekphrasis, Kritika Kultura, PEN Hong Kong, Voice & Verse, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias [forthcoming].
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Ma Ran and Zhen Zhang for their additions to the website.
Notes
This is a non-profit, educational website, supported by a General Research Fund (GRF) award, “Gendered Screens, Chinese Dreams: Women Filmmakers and the Rise of China in the Twenty-First Century,” (2019-2021; Project No. 17612818), as well as the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. While we have made every attempt to ensure the accuracy of its contents as of December 31, 2020, we accept that there may be errors. We welcome amendments or additions and these can be sent to:
womenfilmmakerschina21@gmail.com.
Both traditional and simplified characters are used on the website for the filmmakers’ names and films, where available. We have aimed to use the most appropriate form in each case, but again we accept there may be errors and welcome amendments. We use the Hanyu Pinyin system of Romanization unless the conventional spelling of a person’s name is otherwise, and have mostly followed the Chinese convention in spelling Chinese names, with surnames first, followed by given names.
Thirty-three of the filmmakers included here are linked to their profile on the Hong Kong Women Filmmakers website. For a more complete list of Hong Kong women filmmakers, please visit our companion website: https://hkwomenfilmmakers.wordpress.com.
Outputs
Marchetti, Gina. “The Networked Storyteller and Her Digital Tale: Film Festivals and Ann Hui’s ‘My Way’,” in Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 1.2 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3998/gs.1702.
Marchetti, Gina. “Women as cross-cultural intermediaries within the Chinese diaspora: The search for Esther Eng in S. Louisa Wei’s Golden Gate Girls (2013).” Cultural Intermediaries in East Asian Film Industries (1st ed.), edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Heung Wah Wong, Routledge, 2021, Chapter 8.
https://doi-org.eproxy.lib.hku.hk/10.4324/9781003246657.
Marchetti, Gina. “Screen Feminisms with Hong Kong Characteristics.” Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics, edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, Syracuse University Press, 2021, pp. 299–334.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1c7zg5j.17.
Marchetti, Gina. “Where in the World are Chinese Women Filmmakers? Transnational China and World Cinema in the Twenty-First Century.” Studies in World Cinema (published online ahead of print 2021).
https://brill.com/view/journals/swc/aop/article-10.1163-26659891-01020002/article-10.1163-26659891-01020002.xml?language=en
Marchetti, Gina. “Feminist activism in the first person: an analysis of Nanfu Wang’s Hooligan Sparrow (2016),” in Studies in Documentary Film, 14.1 (2020): 30-49. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17503280.2020.1720090
Marchetti, Gina. “Short Film – ‘Snake Eaters’ by Quentin Lee & Jericho Li,” in VCinema Web Blog, December 19, 2019: http://www.vcinemashow.com/short-film-snake-eaters-by-quentin-lee-jericho-li/
Marchetti, Gina. “First person, second language: Autobiographical documentaries by women in the Chinese diaspora,” for Asia Dialogue: The Online Magazine of the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, May 24, 2019: https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/05/24/first-person-second-language-autobiographical-documentaries-by-women-in-the-chinese-diaspora/
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