Qiao Li
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Dr Qiao Li

Lecturer

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  Q.Li@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

My teaching and research focus on Asian cinema, with expertise in Chinese language cinema: the three new wave film movements in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1980s, the cultural identities, and film authorship etc. I am the Editor-in-Chief of the 2 books commissioned by UNESCO Cities of Film Network: "Development of Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization" (2020, Routledge); and "The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption" (2023, Routledge).

In my role as a film festival curator, I organized the Chinese Diasporic Film Festival and Film Forum in French Polynesia in 2018. Additionally, I contributed to the publication of a bilingual (English/French) book titled "Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of the Chinese Diaspora" (2019, MHSP), which has been well-received.

I am an enthusiast of digital filmmaking with film festival selections and awards. My recent documentary film "In Pursuit of Truth: Once Upon A Time In China (2022)" is selected by Cannes Aviff Art Film Festival 2023.

As a supervisor, I have successfully supervised three candidates who completed their doctoral studies under my guidance. I am currently supervising 2 PhD candidates with another one to start in October 2023 at SACI:

Second Supervisor:
Documentary as Practice Exploring the Construction of Memory and Identity Among Chinese Diasporic in Scotland (PhD Candidate: Zijing Wan)

Historical Restoration of Chinese Independent Political History Documentaries (PhD Candidate: Han Hu)

Director of Studies:
UNESCO Cities of Film Network and Revival of National Cinema (Yanqiu Guan, forthcoming, Oct 2023)

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Joseph Campbell’s Oriental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Occidental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Journal Article
Li, Q., Tan, E. L. P., & Yang, J. (2023)
Joseph Campbell’s Oriental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Occidental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (2017). Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, Article 914. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02435-x
Adaptation studies in media have been carried out for decades since the 1950s. When media is adapted between different forms, the narrative inherently changes; even more so wh...

Rethinking rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the roots-searching movement in a post-cultural revolution context

Book Chapter
Li, Q. (2021)
Rethinking rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the roots-searching movement in a post-cultural revolution context. In S. P. Gabriel, & B. Wilson (Eds.), . London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105367
Zhang Yimou, one of the most successful of Chinese auteur directors, has been criticized for his Orientalist tendencies, specifically for the exotic atmosphere that turns his ...

Development of Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization

Book
Li, J. Q., Guan, Y., & Lu, H. (Eds.)
(2020). Development of Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003051503
The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production compan...

Film Authorship and National Cinema: An Analysis of “Chineseness” in John Woo’s Hollywood Films’

Journal Article
Li, Q. (., & Deng, L. (2020)
Film Authorship and National Cinema: An Analysis of “Chineseness” in John Woo’s Hollywood Films’. Search Journal of Media and Communication Research, 12(2), 59-72
Hong Kong has the world’s third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. For many decades, Hong Kong cinema has long been transregional and transnatio...

Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora

Book
Li, Q., & Conte, R. (Eds.)
(2019). Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
This work is the first of a series of books principally dedicated to the publication of papers from seminars organized, either solely by the MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME DU ...

Outside and Beyond “The National”: A Case Study of Ang Lee’s Cinema in Hollywood

Book Chapter
Li, J. (2019)
Outside and Beyond “The National”: A Case Study of Ang Lee’s Cinema in Hollywood. In Q. Li, & R. Conte (Eds.), Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora (21-39). Paris: Maison des sciences de l’Homme
This article takes perhaps the most successful film- maker of Chinese origin, Ang Lee, out of his Taiwanese context of discussion and investigates the ways th...

‘Chineseness’ in Yimou Zhang’s Transnational Cinema

Book Chapter
Li, J. (2019)
‘Chineseness’ in Yimou Zhang’s Transnational Cinema. In Q. Li, & R. Conte (Eds.), Migration & Memory: Arts and Cinemas of The Chinese Diaspora (99-119). Paris: Maison des sciences de l’Homme
Hollywood and non-Hollywood national cinemas both seek to depict “universal” meanings to ensure better global distribution and reception. “The national” in national cinema i...

Save Malayan Tiger: It's Now or Never!

Digital Artefact
Li, J. (2019)
Save Malayan Tiger: It's Now or Never!. [documentary film]
Commissioned by the Energy and Natural Resources ministry, the film follows a team of Malaysian forest rangers into the Taman Negara forest in search of the critically endange...

Alita: Battle Angel – A Step in the Right Direction for Anime Adaptations

Journal Article
Li, J., & Phil Tan, E. L. (2019)
Alita: Battle Angel – A Step in the Right Direction for Anime Adaptations. Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies, 1(1), 88-103. https://doi.org/10.24411/2658-7734-2019-00004
Anime adaptations may not be as common as other kinds of adaptations during the 21st century; the few that have been done and released all have been met with negative reviews ...

In A Different Key

Digital Artefact
Li, J. (2018)
In A Different Key. [documentary film]
A short documentary film about a group of autism people and their lives in Malaysia. The film was selected by International Video and Art Exhibition hosted by Ohio Arts Counci...