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Yau Ching

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Yau Ching (Chinese: 游靜) is a writer, independent film and videomaker and media installation artist. She was born and raised in Hong Kong and educated in Hong Kong, New York City and London.[1]

Work

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Bibliography

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Her books include:

  • Stripping pants (Chun Hung Press, 1999)
  • Building a new stove (Youth Literary Press, 1996)
  • The impossible home (2000)
  • Ho Yuk – Let's Love Hong Kong: Script and Critical Essays (2002)
  • Filming Margins: Tang Shu Shuen, a Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Director (2004)
  • Sexing Shadows: Gender and Sexuality in Hong Kong Cinema (2006)
  • Sexual Politics (ed.) (2006)
  • As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender In Mainland China and Hong Kong (ed.). (2010)
  • Big Hairy Egg (2011)
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: Hong Kong Cultural Critique (2014)
  • Shadow Beings (2015), You Yu Yi: Yau Ching's Critical Writings on Art (2015)
  • Yau Ching's Critical Writings on Film 1987-2016 (2017)

Filmography and visual art

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Films and video works include:

  • Is There Anything Specific You Want Me to Tell You About? (1990)
  • Flow (1993), The Ideal / Na(rra)tion (1993)
  • Video Letters 1-3 (1993-4)
  • Diasporama: Dead Air (1997)
  • June 30, 1997 (aka Celebrate What?) (1997)
  • Finding Oneself (commissioned by Radio Television Hong Kong) (2000)
  • Ho Yuk (Let's Love Hong Kong) (2002)
  • In My Father’s House, There are Many Mansions (2004)
  • We Are Alive (2010)

Ho Yuk - Let's Love Hong Kong won the Critic's Grand Prize for Fiction at the 2002 Figueira da Foz International Film Festival.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Mühlhahn, Klaus; Haselberg, Clemens von (2012). Chinese Identities on Screen. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783643902702.
  2. ^ Yau, Ching (2010-02-01). As Normal As Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789622099876.
  3. ^ Eisner, Ken (2002-12-14). "Let's Love Hong Kong". Variety. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
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