Professor Kate Taylor-Jones
Kate Taylor-Jones is Professor of East Asian Cinema and Head of School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and draws on a variety of fields including film studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, media studies, visual culture and critical theory. She has an ongoing passion for the study of the role that colonial and postcolonial movements plays in East Asian cinema. Her recent monograph study, Divine Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema and it’s Legacy has been described as ‘concise, lucid and deeply researched’, and ‘opens up a vista on films and filmmakers who shaped and were shaped by the momentous events of the Pacific War’.
Professor Po-Shek Fu
Po-Shek Fu is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research focuses on film history, Cold War cultural history, and the interaction between war and culture. He has received several national fellowships including, most recently, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Fulbright Scholar. In 2008-2011 , he was the director for the UIUC Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and President of Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in 2020-2021. His publications include China Forever: Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema(Illinois 2008), Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas(Stanford 2003), Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945 (Stanford 1993), which have been translated into Chinese. His new book on the Cold War and Hong Kong media will be published by the Oxford University Press.
Dr Xiaoning Lu
Xiaoning Lu is Reader in Modern Chinese Culture and Language at SOAS, University of London. She has authored Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966) (2020) and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (2020). Her articles on Chinese cinema and socialist culture have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Journal of Contemporary China and Maoist Laughter.