# Yau Ching

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**Yau Ching** (; born 1966) is a Hong Kong writer, filmmaker, and scholar. She was educated in Hong Kong, [New York City](/source/New_York_City) and [London](/source/London).[2]

## Biography

Yau was born and raised in Hong Kong.[2] She majored in English and comparative literature at the [University of Hong Kong](/source/University_of_Hong_Kong) and graduated in 1988.[3] She briefly attended [California State University](/source/California_State_University) to pursue a master's degree in theatre arts but withdrew after three months.[3] 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](/source/The_New_School_for_Social_Research).[3] During her studies, she was also accepted into the [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art)'s Independent Study Program in Studio Art, where filmmaker [Yvonne Rainer](/source/Yvonne_Rainer), impressed by a short film she produced, invited her to spend a year studying filmmaking.[3] From 1998 to 2003, she earned a PhD in Media Arts at [Royal Holloway, University of London](/source/Royal_Holloway,_University_of_London), and conducted postdoctoral research as a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the [University of Hawaii](/source/University_of_Hawaii) from 2004 to 2005.[4] She has taught at the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan), the [University of California, San Diego](/source/University_of_California,_San_Diego), and [Lingnan University](/source/Lingnan_University).[5] Currently, she is a professor at [National Central University](/source/National_Central_University) in Taiwan.[5]

## Work

### Bibliography

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

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](/source/Figueira_da_Foz_International_Film_Festival).[6][7]

## References

1. ["游靜"](https://www.mplus.org.hk/tc/collection/makers/yau-ching/) (in Chinese). *[M+](/source/M%2B)*. Retrieved 26 January 2026.

1. Mühlhahn, Klaus & Haselberg, Clemens von (2012). [*Chinese Identities on Screen*](https://books.google.com/books?id=rZckw9Iw7KgC&q=Yau+Ching&pg=PA127). LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783643902702.

1. ["藝術家游靜談她1990年代在紐約讀書的經歷"](https://www.mplus.org.hk/tc/magazine/yau-ching-on-film-studies-and-yvonne-rainer/) (in Chinese). *[M+](/source/M%2B)*. 30 August 2022. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20251208005609/https://www.mplus.org.hk/tc/magazine/yau-ching-on-film-studies-and-yvonne-rainer/) 8 December 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 26 January 2026.

1. ["游靜 Y A U, C H I N G"](https://yauching.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CV_2017FinalWeb4.pdf). *yauching.com*. Retrieved 26 January 2026.

1. Yau, Ching (1 January 2025). ["非碳基倖存組曲"](https://www.surpoetry.com/index.php/artmz/artmz_txt/id/2578) (in Chinese). *Survivors*. Retrieved 26 January 2026.

1. Yau, Ching (2010-02-01). [*As Normal As Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong*](https://books.google.com/books?id=f87JU4ALBA0C&q=figueira+fest+yau+ching&pg=PR11). Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789622099876.

1. Eisner, Ken (2002-12-14). ["Let's Love Hong Kong"](https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/let-s-love-hong-kong-1200544357/). *Variety*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200923141136/https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/let-s-love-hong-kong-1200544357/) 23 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2019-03-09.

## External links

- [Website](http://yauching.com/)

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