Dr Jessica Siu-yin Yeung

Thesis title

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema   

Affiliations

• British Comparative Literature Association
• Society for Hong Kong Studies (Hong Kong)
• Hong Kong Studies Association (United Kingdom)
• Society of Sinophone Studies

Edited volumes

Ta-wei Chi, Elaine Chung, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. Guest editors of Comedies in East Asian Media: Laughing in Bitter Times, (a special issue of Archiv orientální), eds. Ta-wei Chi, Elaine Chung, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. 90.3 (2022).

Book chapters (refereed)

“Film Circulation and Crossed Influences between Hong Kong and Taiwan during the Cold War: The Spy Film Genre and the Anti-War Film Genre.” Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered, eds. Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Corrado Neri, Wafa Ghermani, and Chris Berry. (Under review; volume proposal under consideration at Edinburgh University Press)

“Spy Films with Clumsy Spies: Stephen Chow Cinema’s Response to the James Bond Craze.” The Cinema of Stephen Chow, eds. Gary Bettinson and Vivian P. Y. Lee. London and New York: Bloomsbury. (Under review)

“Space in Pai Hsien-yung’s Niezi: Allegory of a Critique of Protestant-Confucian Moralism.” The Cityscapes of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei during the Cold War, eds. Tze-ki Hon and Ying-kit Chan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (Under review)

“Nostalgic Humour and Cultural Memory in the Remakes of Hong Kong Jane Bond Films.” Global James Bond, eds. Lisa Funnell and Klaus Dodds. Lanham, USA: Lexington Books. (Under review)

Pei-yu Chen, Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, Jun-hong Yong, Bo-yun Xie, Song-yong Sing, and Yi-pei Tu. “蔡明亮電影研究學術文獻 (Academic Literature on Tsai Ming-liang Film Studies).”《蔡明亮的十三張臉：華語電影研究的當代面孔》(Thinking with Tsai Ming-Liang: 13 Faces of Contemporary Chinese Cinema Studies), edited by Song-yong Sing and Hsuan-chun Tseng. Trans. Wen-cheng Tsai. 437-52. Taipei: National Chiao Tung University Press, 2021.

“(Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China.” Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor. Ed. Andrew Pilsch and Shawna Ross. 223-38. London: Routledge, 2019.

“Ann Hui’s Allegorical Cinema.” Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary. Ed. Jason S. Polley, Vinton Poon, and Lian-Hee Wee. 87-104. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Articles (refereed)

“Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature, and Shih Shu-ching’s Hong Kong Stories.” Cultural History. (Accepted)

“Introduction,” co-authored with Ta-wei Chi and Elaine Chung in Comedies in East Asian Media: Laughing in Bitter Times (a special issue of Archiv orientální), eds. Ta-wei Chi, Elaine Chung, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. 90.3 (2022): 407–15. (Open Access)

“Cultural Memory, the Trope of ‘Humble Wage Earners,’ and Everyman Heroism in the Hui Brothers’ Comedies and Their Remake.” Comedies in East Asian Media: Laughing in Bitter Times (a special issue of Archiv orientální), eds. Ta-wei Chi, Elaine Chung, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. 90.3 (2022): 417–46.

“‘I want my films to bring hope to spectators’: An interview with Michael Hui.” Comedies in East Asian Media: Laughing in Bitter Times (a special issue of Archiv orientální), eds. Ta-wei Chi, Elaine Chung, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. 90.3 (2022): 565–74. (Open Access)

“Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature.” Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation (a special issue of Journal of World Literature), eds. Wiebke Sievers and Peggy Levitt. 5.4 (2020): 568–86. (Open Access)

“IABA Graduate Student and New Scholar Forum: Remaking Obscure Lives as Prosopography in Blogazine.” What’s Next?: The Futures of Auto/Biography Studies, a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32.2 (2017), 406-407.

“Collaboration and Cultural Production in Hyde Park Gate News and The Charleston Bulletin.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 89 (Spring 2016): 14-16.

Encyclopedia entries (non-refereed)

“Chu T'ien-wen.” Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies. Ed. Michael Hsiao. Leiden; Boston: Brill, Web. (By invitation; forthcoming Jun-Sept 2022 (web) and Sept 2023 (print))

Book reviews (refereed)

Cheuk, Michael Ka-chi, and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung. “A Review of Kenny K. K. Ng’s Zuotian jintian mingtian: Neidi yu xianggang dianying de zhengzhi, yishu yu chuantong 《昨天今天明天：內地與香港電影的政治、藝術與傳統》(Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Hong Kong Cinema with Sino-links in Politics, Art, and Tradition). Hong Kong: Chunghwa Bookstore, 2021.” Asian Cinema. (by invitation; forthcoming November 2022)

“A Review of See-Kam Tan’s Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) (forthcoming).

“A Review of Hu Ying’s Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss. Cambridge, United States: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016.” Life Writing. 3 Oct 2017.

“Ben’s Fairy Tales.” The Modernist Review. [Rev. of The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin].

Translation (refereed)

English to Chinese

「永遠在邊緣永遠在過渡：樓梯城市香港」Chinese translation of the essay “Always Liminal, Always in Transition: Hong Kong as Staircase City” by Louis Lo. Hong Kong Stair Archive. Ed. Melissa Cate Christ, Susanne Trumpf, and Carmi Lam. (forthcoming)

Conferences

Presentations/Talks/Seminars

“Cultural Memory, the Trope of ‘Humble Wage Earners,’ and Everyman Heroism in the Hui Brothers’ Comedies and Their Remake.” Paper to be presented at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) 2023 Annual Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Virtual. 17–18 February, 2023. (by invitation)

“Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature, and Literary Adaptation in the Postwar Period, 1950s¬–1990s.” Cambridge World History Workshop. Cambridge, UK. Virtual. 2 February, 2023. (by invitation)

“Cultural Memory and Pastiche in Hong Kong Comedy Film.” An invited talk as part of the M.A. Core Module “COMD 7190 Research Methods in Communications (Humanities).” Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Hong Kong. 13 October, 2022. 

“Revival of the ‘Hong Kong Wave’ and Translocal Nostalgia in Two South Korean Comedy Remakes of Hong Kong Films from the Golden Age.” Paper co-authored with Elaine Chung presented at the 70th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA. Online (due to COVID-19). 29-31 October, 2021. (by invitation)

“‘Life as a Transient Abode’: Images of Non-Belonging and Impermanence in Tsai Ming-liang’s Heliu (The River).” Paper presented at the international conference “Identities in Motion: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Mobilities and Crossings.” University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Online (due to COVID-19). 28 June, 2021.

“Hong Kong Popular Fiction as Minor: Cultural Identity and the Limits of Translation and Adaptation in Ni Kuang’s Zhuilong (Chasing the Dragon) and Yi Shu’s Shangchengji (The Wounded City).” Paper presented at the international conference “World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation.” KU Leuven, Belgium. Online (due to COVID-19). 5-7 May, 2021.

“Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature, and Shih Shu-ching’s Hong Kong Stories.” Paper presented at the Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies—Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Online (due to COVID-19). 23-25 April, 2021.

“Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature.” An invited talk as part of the project Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc. Czech Republic. Online (due to COVID-19). 15 March, 2021.

“Introduction to Taiwan Literature and Cinema.” A guest lecture for the B.A. Core Module "ML 1369 China, Greater China and China Overseas." Chinese Department, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Online (due to COVDI-19). 10 March, 2021.

“Semiotics of Allegory: Homosexuality in the Contemporary East Asian Novel and Cinema (Hong Kong and Taiwan).” Nationalisms & Identities Research Group (UnCaNI). University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Online (due to COVID-19). 8 March, 2021.

“Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature.” Paper presented at the 13th Annual Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, SOAS University of London. London, United Kingdom. Online (due to COVID-19). 6-10 July, 2020.

“(Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China.” 24th Annual Conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association—Beyond an Island: Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. University of Texas at Austin, USA. 24-26 May 2018. (funded by NATSA)

“Inter-Asian Comparison, Fragment as Nation, and Allegory.” (Re)Creating A Global Literary Canon. University of Vienna. Vienna. 14-15 December 2017. (funded by the University of Vienna)

“Inter-Asian Comparison and the Future of World Literature.” World Literature and Global Core Texts. Singapore University of Technology and Design. Singapore. 26-27 Jun 2017. (funded by SUTD and BCLA)

“Politics of Censorship and Soft Power in Ann Hui’s Post-CEPA films.” Cinema, Soft Power and Geo-Political Change. Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom. 19-21 Jun 2017. (funded by the University of Leeds)

“Female Allegory in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts and Chu Tien-wen’s Notes of a Desolate Man.” Redefining Allegory: The Meaning of Allegory Now. Queen Mary, University of London. 24 Sep 2016.

• Inter-Asian Cultural Studies
• Literature and Visual Cultures of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
• East-Asian Popular Culture Studies
• Intertextuality
• Cultural Memory and Heritage
• East Asian Comedies