Professor Emilie YEH

Professor Emilie Yeh is the Associate Vice-President (Academics), Lam Wong Yiu Wah Chair Professor of Visual Studies, Head of the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, and Director of the Centre for Film and Creative Industries. She is a scholar of Chinese and Asian cinema studies, with a focus on history, theory, and media industries. She has published 12 books and over 70 academic articles. Her work examines the aesthetic, institutional, and economic dimensions of cinema, film culture, and media industry. In the past decade, she focused on producing new materials for the study of early cinema and has published three online databases, journal articles, and three edited volumes: Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Republican China (University of Michigan Press, 2018); Beyond Shanghai: New Perspectives on Early Chinese Cinema (Beijing UP, 2016); and Rethinking Chinese Film Industry: New Methods, New Histories (Beijing UP, 2010). Her most recent works are The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, 2025) and 32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2022, with Darrell Davis and Wenchi Lin). Her publications have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, French, and Hungarian. 

Professor Yeh was visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris and Université de Lyon (Jean Moulin), and Visiting Research Fellow at the Carsey-Wolf Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been awarded research grants from Research Grants Council, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and funding agencies from Australia and the United States. Professor Yeh holds editorial memberships at several international and regional journals. She served as a panel member in Research Assessment Exercise (Hong Kong) and the Jury of the Golden Horse Film Awards twice (Taiwan), the Asian Television Awards (Singapore), the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards and the Hong Kong Fresh New Wave Film Competition. She was also a consultant for the Motion Picture Association of America. Before joining Lingnan, she was Director of Academy of Film and the Director of Centre for Media and Communication Research at Hong Kong Baptist University.