Dr. Jessica Ka Yee Chan

Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics, and Internationalism, 1949–1966 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2019).

“Postcolonial Aging, Amah, and Diaspora in A Simple Life,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 24.3 (2023): 431–448.

“The Screen Kiss in 1937: Re-reading Street Angel and Crossroads,” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 8.1 (2022): 71–89.

“Insulting Pictures: The Thief of Bagdad in Shanghai.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 28.1 (2016): 38–77.

“Anticipating Action: The Evolving Grammar of Action and Montage in Hong Kong Cinema.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 1.3 (2015): 403–419.

“Translating ‘Montage’: The Discreet Attractions of Soviet Montage for Chinese Revolutionary Cinema.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 5.3 (autumn 2011): 197-218.

“Animation as Action: The Old Master Q Animation Trilogy,” Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion, eds. Daisy Yan Du, John Crespi, and Yiman Wang, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2025, 252–275.

Published translation:

Jiang, Qing. “On the Revolution in Peking Opera.” Trans. Jessica Ka Yee Chan. The Opera Quarterly. Performance + Theory + History 26, no. 2-3 (spring-summer 2010): 455-459.

Published translation:

Han, Shangyi. “The Design and Style of Opera Films.” Trans. Jessica Ka Yee Chan and Judith Zeitlin. The Opera Quarterly. Performance + Theory + History 26, no. 2-3 (spring-summer 2010): 446-454.