Ella Mei Ting Li

Bio

Ella Mei Ting Li is a Lecturer in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she earned her PhD in Chinese Language and Literature. Her research interests lie in cultural history, popular culture, fandom and queer studies, with a particular focus on Hong Kong and global Sinophone communities.

Contributions

The First Generation of Hong Kong Cinephiles: Yinguang

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Hong Kong has enjoyed a long film history, which dates back to as early as the invention of film. Recent scholarship has begun to pay attention to the early screen culture of Hong Kong cinema. These findings paved the way for exploring the cinephilic culture in Hong Kong that has taken shape since the mid-1920s, when local critics and movie lovers began to group themselves to form cine clubs and unions and published film magazines. Yinguang ( 銀光 ) was

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