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Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University

Ph.D. Communication Arts (Radio, Television, Film). University of Wisconsin-Madison.

M.A. Communication Arts; Minor: Art History. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

B.A. Philosophy and English. Calvin College, Michigan.

Languages: fluent in Japanese; reading knowledge of German; Conversational Mandarin Chinese.

Senior Lecturer. School of English, Media & Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Lecturer. School of Theatre Film & Dance, UNSW.

Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Cinema-TV, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Visiting Assistant Professor. Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, September.

Associate Professor. English Department, Kobe University of Commerce, Japan.

Lecturer. East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California, Spring-Autumn 1995. Lecturer. International Cinema, School of Cinema-TV, University of Southern California.

Part-time Lecturer. Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i-Manoa.

Director. Asia Program, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, January-October 1993.

Curator. Film and Video, Honolulu Academy of Arts Museum, December 1990-December 1992.

1. East Asian Screen Industries. Co-author. London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 202 pages. Paperback and Hardcover. Chinese Translation forthcoming.

2. Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts. Co-editor. London: Routledge, 2007, 272 pages. Paperback and Hardcover.

3. Taiwan Film Directors: a Treasure Island. Co-author. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, 286 pages. Paperback and Hardcover.

Reviews:

• Winterton, Bradley. "Celebration of Camp or Threnody of Collapse?" The Taipei Times, 31July 2005:18.
• Dreyer, June Teufel. "From a Magic Lantern: A New Study Sifts Through the Cultural Legacies of Taiwan as Seen by Its Filmmakers." Taiwan Review 55.10 (October 2005): 22-27.
• Caspers, Paul. 8Weekly, 24 Dec. 2005 ( http://www.8weekly.nl/index.php?art=3376 ).
• Suhka, Samaya L. "Taiwan and the Auteur: The Forging of an Identity." Film-Philosophy 10.1 (2006): 98-102.
• Udden, James. China Review International 23 (2007): 86-88.
• Berry, Chris. Screening the Past #21 (July 2007).
• Tweedie, James. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (October 2007).
• Jian, Yu-Jyuan. Canadian Journal of Film Studies 17.1 (Spring 2008): 103-108.

4. Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film. Columbia University Press, 1996, 304 pages. Paperback and Hardcover.

Reviews:

• Crean, D. R., Bulletin of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Vol. 16, 2-3 (Sept.-Dec. 1996): 74-77.
• Brian Lewis, Monumenta Nipponica 51:3 (Winter 1996): 397-400.
• Linda Erhlich, Asian Cinema Vol. 9, 1 (Fall 1997): 140.
• Keiko McDonald, Film Quarterly Vol. 51, 1 (Fall 1997): 54-55.
• Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Journal of Japanese Studies Vol. 24, 2 (May 1998): 419-422.
• Ayako Saito, The Japan Foundation Newsletter XXVI:1 (May 1998): 11-12.
• P. H. Stacy, Choice 33:10 (June 1996).
• Iwamoto Kenji, Gakuto Vol. 96, 6 (June 1997, in Japanese): 68-69.
• Miyao Daisuke, Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 58, 2 (1999): 550.
• Japan Quarterly, January - March 1997.
• Amazon.com Editor's recommendation

• "Re-nationalizing China's Film Industry: Case Study on the China Film Group and Film Marketization" (with Emilie YY Yeh). Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Vol. 2, 1 (2008): 37-51 (Refereed).
• "Compact Generation: VCD Markets in Asia." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 23, 2 (2003): 165-176 (Refereed).
• "A New Taiwan Person? Questions for Wu Nien-chen." positions: east asia culture critique, Vol. 11, 3 (Winter 2003): 717-34 (Refereed).
• "Japan Hongscreen: Pan-Asian Cinemas and Flexible Accumulation" (with Yeh Yueh-yu). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Vol. 22, 1 (2002): 61-82 (Refereed).
• "Borrowing Postcolonial: Wu Nien-chen's Dou-san and the Memory Mine." Post Script Vol. 20, 2 &3 (Winter/Spring 2001): 94-114 (Refereed).
• "Warning! Category III: The Other Hong Kong Cinema" (with Yeh Yueh-yu). Film Quarterly Vol. 54, 4 (Winter 2001): 12-26 (Refereed).
• "Re-igniting Japanese Tradition with Hana-Bi." Cinema Journal Vol. 40, 4 (Summer 2001): 55-80 (Refereed).
• "In the Event of Sound." Film Appreciation (Taipei Film Archive house journal) Vol. 17, 2 (March/April 1999): 21-25.
• "Pornographication." Multimage #83 (April 1997): 32-40.
• "The Ineffable." Film Appreciation Vol. 15, 1(January/February 1997): 11-15.
• "Kurosawa's Kagemusha: In Praise of Shadows," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan Vol. 11 (1996): 93-106 (Refereed, prize-winning essay).
• "Uses and Misuses of History: The Janus Faces of The Abe Clan." Film History Vol. 7, 1 (Spring 1995): 49-68 (Refereed).
• "A Talk With Shaji," interview with Indian filmmaker. East-West Film Journal Vol. 5, 2(July 1991): 128-35.
• "Back to Japan: Militarism and Monumentalism in Prewar Japanese Cinema." Wide Angle Vol. 11, 3 (July 1989): 16-25. (Refereed)
• "A Tale of Two Movies: Charlie Chaplin, United Artists, and the Red Scare." Cinema Journal Vol. 27, 1 (Fall 1987): 47-62. (Refereed, prizewinning essay)

• "Technology and [Chinese] Ethnicity." Cinema at the City's Edge: Film and Urban Space in East Asia. Eds. Yomi Braester and James Tweedie. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, forthcoming.
• "Kitano's Hana-Bi, Therapy for Him and Her." Japanese Film: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Julian Stringer. London and New York: Routledge, 2007: pp. 284-295.
• "Introduction: Cinema Taiwan, a Civilizing Mission?" Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts. Eds. Darrell Davis and Robert Chen. London and New York: Routledge, 2007: pp. 1-13.
• "Problems of Popularity in Taiwan's Cinema." Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts. Eds. Darrell Davis and Robert Chen. London and New York: Routledge, 2007: 146-158.
• "Japanese Popular Cinema: Cause for Cautious Optimism." Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame. Ed. Ann Ciecko. Berg Publications, 2006: 193-206.
• "Borrowing Postcolonial: Wu Nien-chen's Dou-san and the Memory Mine." Chinese-language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics. Eds. Sheldon Lu and Emilie Yeh. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005: 237-266. (Reprint of Post Script article)
• "Inoue at Shaws: the Wellspring of Youth" (with Emilie Yeh Yueh-yu). The Shaw Screen: A Preliminary Study. Ed. Wong Ain-ling. Hong Kong Film Archive, 2003: 255-271.
• "VCD as Programmatic Technology: Japanese Television Drama in Hong Kong" (with Yeh Yueh-yu). Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas. Ed. Koichi Iwabuchi. University of Hong Kong Press, 2004: 227-247.
• "Notes on Atavism." The Silent Word: The Role of the Unwritten in the Production of Meaning. Ed. Robert J. C. Young. Singapore University Press, 1998: 27-44.
• "Anatomy of Misinterpretation." From Beijing to Port Moresby: The Politics of National Cultural Policies. Ed. Virginia Dominguez, Gordon and Breach, 1998: 293-301.
• "Ozu's Mother." Tokyo Story. Cambridge Film Handbooks, ed. David Desser. Cambridge University Press, 1997: 76-100.
• "Genroku Chushingura and the Primacy of Perception." Cinematic Landscapes: Cinema/Art in Japan and China. Eds. David Desser and Linda Ehrlich. Texas University Press, 1994: 187-215.

• "New Cinema Revisited: Hsiao Yeh, Wu Nien-Chen and Wang Tung" (with Yeh Yueh-yu). 20th Anniversary of Taiwanese New Cinema Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, 2002: 84-103.
• "The Death of a Hong Kong Policeman: Lau Sing Hon's One Body, Two Flags." Hong Kong Economic Journal (17 December 1999, in Chinese): 32.
• "Special Effects Cannot Save Hong Kong Film." Hong Kong Economic Journal (11 September 1999, in Chinese): 24.
• "Comrades: People on the Make." Cinedossier: The 34th Golden Horse Award-Winning Films. 1998 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: 56-61.
• "Borrowing Postcolonial: Dou-San." Special Program of Contemporary Taiwan Cinema. 1997 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: 85-93.
• "The Future of Asian Cinema: the Japanese Case." Media Digest (RTHK House Journal, September 1998): 8-10 (in Chinese with Yeh Yueh-yu).
• "'Formalist Jackstraws and Unmotivated Camera Mischief': 1993, My Time in the Yamagata Asia Program." Eiga Shimbun [Movie Newspaper, Osaka, Japan], November 1993 (original in English, Japanese translation).

• "Compact Generation: VCD Markets in Asia." Trans. Verdy Leung and Zero Yiu. Film Appreciation Vol. 22, 2 (Summer 2003).
• "VCD as Programmatic Technology: Japanese Dorama in Hong Kong." Trans. Li Ya-mei. Film Appreciation Vol. 21,3 (Fall 2002): 36-43.
• "Borrowing Postcolonial: Wu Nien-chen's Dou-san and the Memory Mine." Trans. Wang Chih-ming. Chung Wai Literary Monthly Vol. 28, 11 (April 2000): 7-32.
• "'Japaneseness' and Beat Takeshi's Hana-Bi." Trans. Yeh Yueh-yu. Film Appreciation Vol. 16, 6 (Nov./Dec. 1998): 63-68.
• "The White Courtyard." What Is Jidai Geki? New Film Studies. Ed. and trans. Kato Mikiro. Jimbun Shoin sha, 1997 (Japanese).
• "Ozu's Mother." Trans. Yeh Yueh-yu. Film Appreciation Vol. 14, 3 (May/June, 1996, Chinese): 94-105. Translation re-printed in Dangdai Dianying (Contemporary film, Beijing) no. 27 (January 1999): 91-96.

• Mark Le Fanu, Mizoguchi and Japan. British Film Institute, 2005. Journal of Japanese Studies Vol 33,1 (2007): 259-264.
• Yoshida Kiju, Ozu's Anti-Aesthetic. University of Michigan Press, 2003. Japanese Studies 26,2 (September 2006): 260-262.
• Peter B. High, The Imperial Screen. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Japanese Studies Vol 24, 2 (2004): 269-71.
• Eric Cazdyn, The Flash of Capital. Duke University Press, 2003. Media International Australia No. 107 (May 2003): 150-52.
• Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Cinema. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2002. Senses of Cinema, No. 20 (May-June 2002): online publication.
• Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema. Duke University Press, 2000. Film Quarterly Vol. 55, 1 (2001): 65-66.
• Andrew, Dudley and Carole Cavanaugh, Sansho Dayu. London: BFI, 1999. Metro: Film / Television / Radio / Multimedia No. 127/128 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 205-206.
• Keiko McDonald, Japanese Classical Theater in Films. London: Associated University Presses, 1994. Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 55, 2 (May 1996): 463-465.
• David James, Allegories of Cinema. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. East West Film Journal Vol. 4, 2 (June 1990): 130-135.
• Gregory Barrett, Archetypes in Japanese Film. London: Associated University Presses, 1989. Asian Cinema Vol. 5, 2 (1990): 16-18.

University of New South Wales (2000-2007)
Honours Seminars: Postcolonial Theory and Film; Film Historiography
General Education: Landmarks in Film History
Undergraduate Courses: Aspects of Film History; The Hollywood System; Popular Film in East Asia; Cinemas of Asia and the Pacific Rim; Contemporary Approaches to the Cinema; Introduction to Film; Australian Cinema and Television; Japanese Cinema; Major Figures: Raoul Walsh and Ida Lupino

University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University (1998-2000)
Film Culture; Theories of the Visual; History of Image and Sound; Studies in Hollywood Cinema

Kobe University of Commerce (1996-1998)
Freshman Seminar; Media Studies; East Asian Cultural Studies; Studies in English Communication

University of Southern California (1993-1996)
Graduate Survey: Postwar European Cinema
Graduate Seminar: East Asian Cinema (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan); Japanese Fiction, Film and Drama
Undergraduate Course: Japanese Literature in English Translation

University of Hawai'i (1992)
Japanese Cinema

Video Production: MANA FROM HEAVEN, Compilation documentary, 16mm footage of the Hawaiian Islands, ca. 1929-1933, 34 min. Made for "Encounters with Paradise" exhibition, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 1991.

Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California, 1993-94.

Winner. The Tenth Asiatic Society of Japan Essay Contest. US $1000, January 1993.

Dissertation Fellowship. East-West Center Joint Doctoral Research Award. Institute of Culture and Communication, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 1989-90.

Winner. The Seventh US-Japan Culture Center Essay Contest. US $1000 and an all-expense trip to Japan, February 1988.

Dissertation Fellowship. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Fall-Winter, 1987.

Winner. Society for Cinema Studies Student Writing Contest. US $150, January 1987.

"Leftist Samurai Films and the Monumental Style." UCLA, February 1994.

"Institutional Homes for Film Study in the West." National Film School (VGIK), Moscow, October 1993.

"The Japanese Spirit In History/On Film." Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities, Honolulu, February 1991.

"Cinema, Realism, and the Uncanny." St. Bonaventure University, Olean, New York, November 1990.

"Film as Window, as Mirror, or as Shopping Mall?" Summer Program for Enhancement of Basic Education, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, June-July 1990.

"Sisters of Gion and the Geisha." Kap'iolani Community College, Honolulu, February 1990.

"Kenji Mizoguchi's Sacred Japanese Flappers." University of Hawai'i, December 1989.