Ling U

Literature, Film, and Media of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
East-Asian Popular Culture Studies
Intertextuality
Cultural Memory and Heritage
Inter-Asian Cultural Studies (especially Hong Kong-Taiwan literary and film studies and Hong Kong-South Korean film and popular culture studies)

Books

• Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novels and Cinema (proposal in submission to major university and commercial press)

Edited special issues

• Guest editor, Comedies in East Asian Media: Laughing in Bitter Times, special issue of Archiv orientální 90/3 (2022) (with Ta-wei Chi and Elaine Chung).
(A book review will be published in Asian Cinema winter 2023 issue. Another book review will be published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal)
• Guest editor, Women and Chineseness in Cinema and Media: Traditions and Trends, special issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas (in preparation; with David John Boyd).

Journal articles

• “Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-ching’s Hong Kong Stories”, Cultural History 12/2 (2023) (in press; expected October 2023).
• “Cultural Memory, the Trope of ‘Humble Wage Earners,’ and Everyman Heroism in the Hui Brothers’ Comedies and Their Remake”, Archiv orientální 90/3 (2022): 417–46.
• “Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature”, Journal of World Literature 5/4 (2020): 568–86. (Open Access)
  URL: http://brill.com/view/journals/jwl/5/4/article-p568_6.xml
• “Remaking Obscure Lives as Prosopography in Blogazine”, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32/2 (2017): 406–407.
• “Collaboration and Cultural Production in Hyde Park Gate News and The Charleston Bulletin”, Virginia Woolf Miscellany 89 (Spring 2016): 14–16.

Book chapters

• “Nostalgic Humor and Cultural Memory in the Remakes of Hong Kong Jane Bond Films” in Lisa Funnell and Klaus Dodds (eds.), Global James Bond: (Re)Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon, Lanham, USA: Lexington Books (Expected late 2023/ early 2024).
• “Film Circulation and Mutual Influences between Hong Kong and Taiwan during the Cold War” in Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Corrado Neri, Wafa Ghermani, and Chris Berry (eds.), Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered, Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press (Expected 2024).
• “Spy Films with Clumsy Spies: Stephen Chow Cinema’s Response to the James Bond Craze” in Gary Bettinson and Vivian P. Y. Lee (eds.), The Cinema of Stephen Chow, London and New York: Bloomsbury. (Expected 2023/2024).
• “Remaking Lubitsch in Hong Kong Cinema: The Ninotchka Trope in Her Fatal Ways” in David John Boyd (ed.), ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch, Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. (Expected 2024).
• “(Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China,” in Andrew Pilsch and Shawna Ross (eds.), Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor, London: Routledge, 2019, 223–38.
• “Ann Hui’s Allegorical Cinema” in Jason S. Polley, Vinton Poon, and Lian-Hee Wee (eds.), Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 87–104.

Refereed translations

Chinese to English

• “An Ode to the Tree Roots: Part III.” English translation of the poem “Shu gen san song zhi san 樹根三頌之三” by Wong Leung Wo 王良和. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (e-journal). September 2014 issue. (247 words)
  (URL: http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1872/462/)

English to Chinese

• “Cosmopolitanism from Below: Union Film’s Adaptation of World Classics 電影改編的文化之爭—中聯與華語電影的世界視野” by Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng 吳國坤. Cold War and Sinophone Literature (冷戰與華文文學), a special issue of《中國現代文學》(Chinese Modern Literature), eds. Tee Kim-tong and Ngoi Guat-peng. 43. (16,754 words) (Forthcoming)
• “Yongyuan zai bianyuan yongyuan zai guodu: Louti chengshi xianggang 永遠在邊緣永遠在過渡：樓梯城市香港 (Always Liminal, Always in Transition: Hong Kong as Staircase City).” By Louis Lo. Ed. Melissa Cate Christ. (15,162 words; press TBC)

Referred book reviews

• “A Review of See-Kam Tan’s Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) (Forthcoming 2023).
• Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin, and Michael Ka-chi Cheuk. “A Review of Kenny K. K. Ng’s Zuotian jintian mingtian: Neidi yu xianggang dianying de zhengzhi, yishu yu chuantong 《昨天今天明天：內地與香港電影的政治、藝術與傳統》(Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Hong Kong Cinema with Sino-links in Politics, Art, and Tradition). Hong Kong: Chunghwa Bookstore, 2021”, Asian Cinema 34/1 (April 2023): 129–34 (Lead author; by invitation).
• “A Review of Hu Ying’s Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016”, Life Writing 16/3 (October 2017): 487–490.
• “Ben’s Fairy Tales”, The Modernist Review (online publication by the British Association of Modernist Studies). [Rev. of The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin]. 25 September, 2016. (949 words)

Other publications (Non-refereed)

Introduction

• “Introduction”, co-authored with Ta-wei Chi and Elaine Chung in Comedies in East Asian Media: Laughing in Bitter Times (a special issue of Archiv orientální), eds. Ta-wei Chi, Elaine Chung, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. 90/3 (2022): 407–15. (Open Access) URL: https://aror.orient.cas.cz/index.php/ArOr/article/view/548

Interview

• “‘I want my films to bring hope to spectators’: An interview with Michael Hui.” Comedies in East Asian Media: Laughing in Bitter Times (a special issue of Archiv orientální), eds. Ta-wei Chi, Elaine Chung, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. 90/3 (2022): 565–74. (Open Access) URL: https://aror.orient.cas.cz/index.php/ArOr/article/view/447

Encyclopedia entry

• “Tianwen Zhu (T’ien-wen Chu) 朱天文.” Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies. Ed. Michael Hsiao. Leiden; Boston: Brill, Web. (by invitation; forthcoming Dec 2023 (web); 2024 (print))

Online film reviews

• “Quiet Icons.” An article commissioned by the Editor-in-Chief Gemma Gracewood of the cinephiliac social media platform Letterboxd (Auckland, New Zealand), on the “Top 100 Narrative Feature Films by Asian Women” list, as part of the commemorative events of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021. (URL: http://news.letterboxd.com/post/652669266301272064/top-100-asian-women) (by invitation)
• “Xu Anhua de xianggang yuyan: Mingyue jishi you 許鞍華的香港寓言──《明月幾時有》” (“Our Time Will Come: Ann Hui’s Hong Kong Allegory”). 8 August, 2017. Cinezen. [Rev. of Mingyue jishi you 明月幾時有 Our Time Will Come by Hui On-wah許鞍華Ann Hui]. (URL: http://www.cinezen.hk/?p=7783)

Bibliography

• Pei-yu Chen, Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, Jun-hong Yong, Bo-yun Xie, Song-yong Sing, and Yi-pei Tu. “Cai mingliang dianying yanjiu xueshu wenxian 蔡明亮電影研究學術文獻 (Academic Literature on Tsai Ming-liang Film Studies).” Cai mingliang de shisan zhang lian: Huayu dianying yanjiu di dang dai miankong 《蔡明亮的十三張臉：華語電影研究的當代面孔》(Thinking with Tsai Ming-Liang: 13 Faces of Contemporary Chinese Cinema Studies), edited by Song-yong Sing and Hsuan-chun Tseng. Trans. Wen-cheng Tsai. 437–52. Taibei: Guoli jiaotong daxue chuban she 國立交通大學出版社 National Chiao Tung University Press, 2021.

Online creative writing (essay)

• “De an jie德安街” (“Tak On Street”). 7 August, 2016. “Wo jiedao, wo zhidao, wo shuxie 我街道，我知道，我書寫。” (“Writing Hong Kong”). Online publication of Xianggang wenxue guan 香港文學館The House of Hong Kong Literature. (URL: http://writinghk.org/article/德安街/)

Newspaper column

• “Yuyan shuoli bu shuojiao 寓言說理不說教” (“Allegory: Reasoning without Didacticism”). Wen Wei Po. 20 April, 2016.

Article manuscripts in preparation

• “Hong Kong Cinema and the Nativist Resistance: Three Cases from the Imported Film Era.” Post-2019 Hong Kong Cinema: Paradox and Polarization (a special issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas), eds. Emilie Choi and Kristof Van den Troost. (Abstract accepted; expected 2025)
• “Allegorical Images in Tsai Ming-liang’s Heliu (The River): Impermanence of Belonging”, in submission to International Journal of Taiwan Studies.
• “Myth in Chu T’ien-wen’s Huangren shouji: Allegory of Enlightenment”, in submission to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC).
• Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, and Elaine Chung. “Revival of the ‘Hong Kong Wave’ and Translocal Nostalgia in Two South Korean Comedy Remakes of Hong Kong Films from the Golden Age”, in submission to the Journal of Popular Culture. (Lead author)
• Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, and Michael Ka-chi Cheuk. “‘I Shall Pretend I’m Travelling Abroad’: The Hong Kong Indie-Pop Songs of My Little Airport”, in submission to Journal of Popular Culture.

Postgraduate courses

• Creative and Media Industries Proseminar: Voices from the Field

Undergraduate courses

• VIS4302 Capstone Project—Research Dissertation
• VIS 4303 Capstone Project—Creative Project
• VIS4304 Capstone Project—Curatorial Project
• CMI4002 Capstone Project

• RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lingnan University (August 2023– )
• Doctoral School Conference Funding, SOAS University of London (July 2021)
• Graduate Student Travel Award, North American Taiwan Studies Association (March 2018)
• Santander Mobility Award, University of London Research Fund (November 2017)
• BCLA Postgraduate Bursary, British Comparative Literature Association (June 2017)
• Research Postgraduate Studentship, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong and Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University (September 2011–August 2013)
• Madame K. Y. Hui Memorial Scholarship, Academic Registry, Hong Kong Baptist University (March 2010)