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Helena Wu
Helena Wu is Canada research chair and assistant professor of Hong Kong studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She has written on the topics of Hong Kong cinema, culture, literature, media and identity for journals and edited volumes such as Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2018), Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture (2018), Hong Kong Keywords (2019), Global Media and China (2020) and Journal of Chinese Cinemas (2020). She has recently contributed an article on healthy realism to the cinema section of the Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies (Brill, forthcoming). She is the author of The Handover after the Handover: Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong (Liverpool University Press, 2020). One of her latest projects explores the dynamics between creative experiences, audience activities and cultural (industry) practices in the spectatorships generated by community screening.
Contact: University of British Columbia, 607-1871 West Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada.