Articles

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Journal Articles:

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• "Mountains and water’ and Daoist cosmology in artists’ moving image: A conversation with Gao Shiqiang" in Moving Image Review and  Art Journal, July, 2026.

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• "Embodied Female Gaze and Transborder Flows: Personal Cinema as 'Soft Resistance' in New Wave Women Filmmaking in Post-2010s China" in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2025.

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• “Cinematic ideorealm and Cinema following Dao: Daoism as a method to approach film aesthetics” in Screen, 64-4 (winter), 2023.

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• Co-written with Alisa Lebow: "Feminist approaches in women’s first person documentaries from East Asia” in Special Issue “Women’s First Person Documentaries from East Asia” Studies in Documentary Film, March 2020.

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• “An conversation with Wen Hui” in Special Issue “Women’s First Person Documentaries from East Asia” Studies in Documentary Film, March 2020.

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•  “Documentary”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Vol.10: 1, 2016

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• “Camera Activism in Contemporary People's Republic of China: Provocative Documentation, First Person Confrontation, and Collective Force in Ai Weiwei's Lao Ma Ti Hua”, Studies in Documentary Film, Vol.9:1, 2015

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• “Chinese Photography & Surrealism - Walking at the Extreme Edge of Rationality” in Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 2:1, 2015

 

• “Going Global – Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival 2013”, Studies in Documentary Film, Vol. 8:1, 2014

 

Book Chapters:

 

• "Cinema of Qi: A Daoist Approach to Ecological, Sensory and Affective Cinema Through Vital Energy" in The Intellect Handbook of Documentary (edited by Kate Nash and Deans Williams), Intellect, 2024.

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• “Three Modes of Independent Creative Documentary Production and the Rise of the Industrial Mode” in Chinese Independent Cinema, edited by Chris Berry, Sebrina Yu, Luke Robinson, University of Amsterdam Press, 2024.

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• “First Person Expression on ‘non Western’ Screens – a case on China” in Creative Practice, University of Edinburgh Press, 2020

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• “Image-Writing in Chinese Nonfiction Cinema and Zhao Liang’s Behemoth”, in World Cinema and the Essay Film, edited by Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstic, Univesity of Edinburgh Press, 2019

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• Co-written with A. T. McKenna. ‘Internationalising Memory: Traumatic Histories and the PRC's Quest to Win an Oscar', in Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives, edited by Felicia Chan and Andy Willis, Routledge, 2016

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• “An Inward Gaze at Home: Amateur Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary China” In Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web, edited by Monahan Barry, Laura Rascaroli and Gwenda Young, Bloomsbury, 2014

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• “Towards a Communicative Practice: First Person Filmmaking in Twenty-first century China.” In China’s iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for Twenty-first Century, edited by Johnson et al., Bloomsbury, 2014

 

• Co-written with Keith Wagner: ‘Introduction: China’s iGeneration Cinema: Dispersion, Individualization and Post WTO Moving Image Practices.’ In China’s iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for Twenty-first Century, edited by Johnson et al., Bloomsbury, 2014

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Translations (English to Chinese):

• China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. By Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar. Translated by Tianqi Yu & Dawei Guo. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2018

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• Translator/editor. The Personal Camera. By Laura Rascaroli. Beijing: Xincheng Publisher, 2014