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Winnie Lai Man Yee

Prof. Dr. Winnie Lai Man Yee

Carson Fellow

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Winnie L. M. Yee is assistant professor in comparative literature and programme coordinator of the MA in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are environmental humanities, contemporary Chinese literature and film, Hong Kong culture, and postcolonial theories. She has published on Hong Kong independent cinema, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, Chinese writers Natalia Chan and Dung Kai-cheung. Her works have appeared in the Journal of Asian Cinema; Communication and the Public; Environment, Space, Place; Jump Cut; and the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, among others. She is currently working on a book project exploring the relationship between ecopoetics and the Chinese independent film scene, and an edited volume on Asian ecocinema.

RCC Research Project: The Urban in the Ruins: Studies of Ecotopia in Chinese Urban Texts in the 2000s

Selected Publications:

  • "Nature in the City: A Study of Hong Kong’s Independent Eco-film Festival.” In Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema: Reimagining a Field, edited by Sheldon Lu and Haomin Gong, 48-64. London & New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • “The Post-urban Gaze and Hong Kong Independent Cinema: An Ecofeminist Perspective.” Asian Cinema 30, no. 2 (2019): 219-234.
  • “Contemplating Land: An Ecocritique of Hong Kong.” In Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins, edited by Chia-ju Chang, 271-288. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
  • “Writing the Therapeutic Waterscape: Bodies, Memories, and Nature in Post-socialist Chinese Texts.” Communication and the Public 3, no. 4 (2018): 322-334.
  • “Green Activism in the City: Hong Kong Independent Eco-films in the Post-2008 Era.” Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 11, no. 1 (2018): 39-57.
  • with Kiu-wai Chu. “Local Stories, Global Catastrophe: Reconstructing Nation, Asian Cinema and Asian Eco-consciousness in Japan’s 3.11 Films.” In The Handbook of Asian Cinema, edited by Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park et al., 667-688. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.