Yuhui Wang is a PhD student at the City University of Hong Kong, School of 

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.