Aubrey Tang

Aubrey completed her Ph.D. dissertation, "Hong Kong Experience: Johnnie To's Cinema and the Phenomenology of the Senses," at UC Irvine. Her research interests include film theory, phenomenology of perception, as well as Chinese and Sinophone cinemas. Before enrolling in her graduate programs, she was a published short-story author, a columnist, a translator, a radio host, and a wedding singer in Hong Kong and the United States. Her academic publications cover the topics of disability, sensations, perception, authenticity, postcolonial theory, Chinese nationalism, and Hong Kong politics. She completed seventeen graduate-level courses on world literature, Chinese and Sinophone literatures, postcolonial Anglophone/African literature, critical theory, film theory, art theory, film philosophy, European cinemas, and Chinese and Sinophone cinemas. She has taught composition and film studies at undergraduate and graduate levels. While revising her book chapters on the blind Cantonese operatic musician Duwun/Dou Wun and Johnnie To's _Blind Detective_(2013), as well as her book manuscript, a phenomenological study of Johnnie To's cinema, she teaches popular culture and film aesthetics at Chapman University. Raised by her blind grandmother in Hong Kong, she finds her passion in phenomenology.

Scholarly Work and Publications

"Smelling Love in Metropolitan Hong Kong: Johnnie To's Blind Detective." _Olfactory Cultures of Asia_. Edited by Hannah Gould and Gwyn McClelland. In preparation.

"The Blindness of Colonial Modernity: A Blind Man's Remembrance of Things Past." _Disability and the Environment in the Global Colonial Era_. Edited by Tatiana Prorokova. In preparation.

"Hong Kong's Cinema of Cruelty: Visceral Visuality in _Drug War_." _antae: a Journal on the Interspaces of English Studies_ 6:2-3 (December 2019). 213-31.

"Fake Pictures, Real Feelings: A Case Study of _Art and Craft_." _Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film_. Edited by Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2018. 149-62.

"The Sensations of Semicolonial Shanghai: A Phenomenological Study of the Short Stories by Liu Na'ou." _Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: A Global Nineteenth Century Perspective_. Edited by Alberto Gabriele. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2017. 277-96.

"Filmagining™ Ethnicities: The Making of a Chinese Nation with Film Genres and Styles between 1940 and 1963." _Frontiers of Literary Studies in China_ 8:3 (September 2014): 443-67.

"Make It till You Fake It: the Four-claw Dragons in The Labyrinthine Garden." _Li Ang's Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics_. Edited by Yenna Wu. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2013. 99-114.