Creative Media. She holds a BA in English literature and a MA in film studies. Her
PhD dissertation focused on Hollywood fandom and stardom in Republican China.
She has investigated the social-historical history between the 1930s and 1940s to
interpret the popularization and romanticization of Hollywood culture in China. It
contributes to the research topics of transnational film reception, the globalization of
media fandom, and the tension between China and the US in cultural soft power
during the 1940s. In this trajectory, she published an article about the Chinese film
The Movie Fans (1949) to reflect how Hollywood fandom shaped the lifestyle of
Chinese audiences in the 1940s. A second article about the Chinese participation in
Hollywood interactive fandom between the 1930s and 1940s is forthcoming.
Her future research plan locates film history in a broader sense of sound and visual
culture. In this direction, she has published two articles in the Journal of Beijing Film
Academy to discuss the connection between subtitles in early films and their afterlife
in new media forms. Based on these outcomes, she presented her work about the
interactive function of subtitles in media art at the Society of Cinema and Media
Studies (SCMS) annual conference, linking film history and the contemporary art
scene. She is also interested in game studies, paying particular attention to the
interplay between early film history and videogame history. She presented her
research about the visual and cultural representation of Hong Kong in Japanese retro
videogames at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference.
Email: [email protected]
