kinniayau(at)cuhk.edu.hk
Kinnia has been a faculty member of the Department of Japanese Studies at CUHK since 2003. Her research interests include Japanese studies, transnational film and cultural studies in East Asia, and visualizing cultures of WWII. Kinnia is the recipient of the Young Researcher Award 2008, CUHK; as well as a Harvard-Yenching Institute visiting scholar in 2010-2011. Currently her research focuses on WWII on Japanese, American and East Asian screens.

News

  • Talk : “中日韓跨國愛情電影之時代變遷與政治隱喻” (Transformation and Political Metaphor of Chinese-Japanese-Korean Transnational Romantic Movies), 6 June 2012
  • Conference Presentation : “Meanings of the Imagined Friends: Good Japanese in Chinese War Films,” Leverhulme Research Conference in Taipei: Representation of Japan, 11-15 May 2012
  • Conference Presentation : “The Ultimate Message: Subjects and Meanings of Suffering in The Message,” Workshop on Suffering Bodies during the Sino-Japanese War: 1931-1945, 6-7 April 2012
  • Conference Presentation : “No Eternal Allies, No Perpetual Enemies: What Do We Learn from China’s Anniversary Commemorations?,” The 64th AAS Annual Meeting in Toronto, 15-18 March 2012
  • Responding to Disaster: Japan’s 3.11 Catastrophe in Historical Perspective, Special Issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal, Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia, ed., 12 March 2012
  • New Book :《港日影人口述歷史: 化敵為友》 (An Oral History of Japanese and Hong Kong Filmmakers: From Foes to Friends) (Forthcoming)
  • New Book : East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea, October 2011