Prof. YAU Shuk Ting, Kinnia

Department of Japanese Studies, CUHK

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • M.A., Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • B.A., Department of Japanese Studies, HKU

Teaching

  • JAS1130/UGC229G Chinese-Japanese-Korean Movies: Appreciation and Comparison
  • JAS1140/UGC230G Understanding Japanese Culture and Society through Movies
  • JAS1150/GES2080 Trends and Ideologies in Japanese-European-American Movies

Research Interests/Fields of Specialization

  • Japanese studies
  • Asian studies
  • Film studies

Selected Publications

Books

《香港・日本映画交流史ーアジア映画ネットワークのルーツを探る》 (Interrelations between Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries-Investigation of the Roots of the Asian Film Networks),Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 2007 [Japanese]

《港日電影關係─尋找亞洲電影網絡之源》 (Interrelations between Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries-Investigation of the Roots of the Asian Film Networks),Hong Kong: Centre for Hong Kong Cultural Studies, Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK, and Cosmos Books Ltd, 2006 [Chinese]

《清水宏101年紀念展》 (Shimizu Hiroshi 101st Anniversary), Yau Shuk-ting and Li Cheuk-to (eds), Hong Kong: Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, 2004 [Chinese]

Book Chapters

“From Musicals to Martial Arts: Fifty Years of Hong Kong-Japanese Cinematic Cooperation,” How East Asian Films Are Reshaping National Identities-Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong, Andrew David Jackson, Michael Gibb, Dave White (eds), pp.185-209, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006 [English]

“Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas,” Hong Kong Connections-Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, Stephen Chan Ching-Kiu (eds), pp.35-48, Durham and London: Duke University Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005 [English]

“邵氏電影的日本因素” (Japanese Elements in Shaw Movies), Shaw’s Film and Television Empire: The Imagination of a Cultural China, Liao Gene-fon, Cheuk Pak-tong, Fu Po-shek, Yung Sai-shing (eds), pp.76-112, Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Co., 2003 [Chinese]

“從亞洲影展的變遷看邵氏跟日本電影公司的聯繫及競爭” (Shaw’s Japanese Collaboration and Competition as seen through the Asian Film Festival Evolution), The Shaw Screen: A Preliminary Study, Wong Ain-ling, ed., pp.231-241, Hong Kong Film Archive, 2003 [Chinese]

Journal Papers

“アジアの中の日本人―現代日本映画にみるアジア的要素について” (The Asian Elements of the Contemporary Japanese Cinema), University Press, Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, July, 2008 [Japanese]

“全球化年代的日本恐怖片” (Japanese Horror Movie in the Global Era), Asian Culture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. no.32, June, 2008 [Chinese]

“Nostalgia and Anticipation: A Case Study of Contemporary Japanese Melodrama,” Asian Cinema, Asian Cinema Studies Society, USA, Spring/Summer, 2008 [English]

“Transcending the Outsider’s Role: A Japanese Superstar in Japan and Hong Kong,” Asian Profile, Canada: Asian Research Service. vol.35, no.6, December, 2007 [English]

“Trauma and Comfort: A Study of Korean Romantic Melodrama,” Asian Cinema, Asian Cinema Studies Society, USA. vol.18, no.2, Fall/Winter, 2007 [English]

“A Study of Japanese, Korean, and Hong Kong Beauty Comedies,” Asian Cinema, Asian Cinema Studies Society, USA. vol.17, no.2, Fall/Winter, 2006 [English]