Worlding of Sinophone Cinemas: Textures, Politics, and Aesthetics of the Everyday

Tze-lan Sang is Professor of Chinese Literature & Media Studies at Michigan State University. Among her major publications are The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (2003) and Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (2012). Author of essays and book chapters on Taiwanese women directors such as Wuna Wu, Chen-ti Kuo, Hui-chen Huang, and others. she is currently completing a book on Taiwanese female documentarians as public intellectuals. 

Chih-chi Sunny Tsai is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include Sinophonicity, in-betweenness, and decolonial thinking. Her dissertation explores how in-betweenness shapes the work and life of Taiwanese writer Wang Chen-ho (1940-1990).

Jiwei Xiao is Professor of Chinese and Cinema Studies in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University. She is the author of Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature (2022, Routledge). Her literary and film articles have appeared in New Left Review, Film Quarterly, Comparatist, New York Review of Books, among others.  

Thomas Chen is an Associate Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University. He is the author of Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2022). 

Professor Jessica Tsui-yan Li is Associate Professor in Chinese literature and film at York University. She is Past President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association. She is the author of Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation (Brill, 2025) and the chief editor of The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2019). She has edited special issues and published articles on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film.

WONG Nim Yan 黃念欣 is Associate Professor in Chinese Language and Literature and Director of the Hong Kong Literature Research Centre at CUHK. Her research covers Hong Kong literature, modern Chinese literature, women writers of the May Fourth era, and film-literature relations. She is the author of The Late Style: Three Studies in Hong Kong Female Writers and Dawn Blossoms Picked at Dusk, and has received the Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature and the Hong Kong Book Prize.

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman is professor of Chinese and cinema studies at Oberlin College. Author of Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film (University of Hawai’i Press, 2010) and Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas (University of Hawai’i Press, 2021), she has also published on various aspects of Chinese film, literature, and media in academic books and journals.

Victor Fan is Professor of Film and Media Philosophy, King’s College London and a film festival consultant. He is the author of Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory (Minnesota, 2015), Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media (Edinburg, 2019), and Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism (Minnesota, 2022). His forthcoming book, Interbeing: Living in the Age of Algorithmic Governmentality will be published by Minnesota in 2027.

Chialan Sharon Wang is assistant professor of Chinese at Middlebury College. Her research interests include cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and Sinophone film and literature.

Anqi Liu is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at DePauw University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Sinophone and Chinese diasporic narratives, exploring how identity, culture, and representation shift in the context of global China. Grounded in interdisciplinary studies, her work examines how crisis-driven knowledge is produced and transmitted across visual, textual, and digital media.

Yige Wu is a PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She is interested in censorship as a productive apparatus that pushes alternative means and theorizations of social movements and activist activities. Her inquiries center on “intimacy” as affect, relationality, and a method and praxis to be with ourselves and others. Her broader interests include Chinese film and media, decolonial theory, queer temporality and haunting.

Christopher Lupke, professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, has published extensively on Sinophone literature and cinema, particularly on authors in Taiwan. Lupke's publications include The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien and a translation of Ye Shitao’s A History of Taiwan Literature. He also has (co)edited books on contemporary Chinese/Sinophone poetry. His current project involves the representation of filiality in Chinese/Sinophone literature and cinema.