Yau Ching
Yau Ching is a Hong Kong writer, filmmaker, and scholar. She was educated in Hong Kong, New York City and London.
Biography
Yau was born and raised in Hong Kong. She majored in English and comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong and graduated in 1988. She briefly attended California State University to pursue a master's degree in theatre arts but withdrew after three months. After "what happened in 1989", she decided to study abroad again in 1990 and completed a master's degree in media studies at The New School for Social Research. During her studies, she was also accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program in Studio Art, where filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, impressed by a short film she produced, invited her to spend a year studying filmmaking. From 1998 to 2003, she earned a PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and conducted postdoctoral research as a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the University of Hawaii from 2004 to 2005. She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of California, San Diego, and Lingnan University. Currently, she is a professor at National Central University in Taiwan.Work
Filmography and visual art
Films and video works include:- Is There Anything Specific You Want Me to Tell You About?
- Flow, The Ideal / Nation
- Video Letters 1-3
- Diasporama: Dead Air
- June 30, 1997
- Finding Oneself
- Ho Yuk
- In My Father’s House, There are Many Mansions
- We Are Alive