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Stephen Teo was awarded his PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2003. In 2005, he began a stint as senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore (NUS). Since 2008 has been associate professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His writing has focused mainly on Asian cinema and he has published widely in journals and book anthologies. He is the author of many books on Asian cinema, including Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions (London: British Film Institute, 1997), Wong Kar-wai (British Film Institute, 2005), King Hu’s A Touch of Zen (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2009; expanded edition 2016), The Asian Cinema Experience: Styles, Spaces, Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Inside and Outside Hollywood (Routledge, 2017), Singapore Cinema, New Perspectives, as co-editor (Routledge, 2017), and Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Reception and Aesthetics in Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2019). His newest book is Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of Action, to be published by Routledge in 2021.