• ZHUANG Muyang 庄沐杨, PhD (Humanities), August 2019-July 2023:   

  • PhD Dissertation “Cinema of Elasticity: Cartoon Visuality in Chinese Film”
  • Refereed Journal Article Publication:

* Visualizing Folk Love Songs: De/politicization of Sinicized Cartoons in North China under Japanese Occupation," Twentieth-Century China 48, no. 1 (January 2023).          

* “Animation of Experiment: The Science Education Film and Useful Animation in China,” Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, July 2023.

* “Cartooning Collaboration: Cultural Production and the Image of Rural North China under Japanese Occupation,” Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society, May 27, 2023.   

* “Unfinished Go Game: Mediatized Memory and the Transnational Travels of Hikaru no Go in China,” Mechademia: Second Arc, summer 2024.

  • Winner of Red Bird Academic Excellence Award (HK$20,000) 2022/23, HKUST, only one awardee every year.
  • Job Placements:        
  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R.C. https://am.tongji.edu.cn/info/1490/4756.htm
  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Film School, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P.R.C. offer declined.   

  • ZHAO Lanxin, MPhil (Humanities), August 2022-Fall 2024:  

  • Thesis “Tongren Culture: Fictional Sexuality and Queer Fandom in China”
  • Job Placement: Video Game Designer, MOONTON Games, Shanghai, China

  • Isabel GALWEY, MPhil (Humanities), August 2020-Dec 2022:

  • Thesis “Transmedial Attractions, Transitional Aesthetics: The Digital Turn in Hong Kong Animation”
  • Publications:   

* “The Digital Turn in Hong Kong Independent Animation,” in Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion, edited by Daisy Yan Du (lead editor), John Crespi, and Yiman Wang, Harvard University Press (Asia Center), 2024. 

* “Animated Special Effects in Hong Kong Cinema,” in Encyclopedia of Animation Studies, Bloomsbury reference, edited by Daisy Yan Du (editor overseeing Asian animation), 2025. 

  • Placement: PhD program, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK

  • WU Hang, MPhil (Humanities), August 2014-July 2017:

  • Thesis “Biopolitics and National Subjectivity: Representing Animals in Socialist China, 1949-1965”  
  • Refereed Journal Article Publication:   

* “The Translocalized McDull Series: National Identity and the Politics of Powerlessness,” Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12.1 (March 15, 2017): 28-44.                                 

  • Winner of School of Humanities and Social Science Research Postgraduate Best Research Award (HK$5000), HKUST, 2016-17, only one awardee every year.                  
  • Placements:       
  • PhD Program, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, USA
  • PhD Program, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • PhD Program, Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • PhD Program, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • PhD Program, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada       
  • PhD Program, Division of Humanities, HKUST, Hong Kong