Hi, I am Li Mei Ting – a Hong Kong-based researcher, arts and cultural critic, creative content writers and curator.

My research lives at the intersection of world literature and film, popular culture and fandom, and gender and sexuality. I teach as a lecturer in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Beyond the classroom, I write columns on literature, film, and the arts, and team up with all kinds of creative collaborators to bring ideas to life.

I’m also a passionate advocate for gender equality and a more inclusive society, working alongside local and transnational organisations to champion queer rights.

Education

PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2020

Awards

The Award for Young Artist (Art Criticism)
The Hong Kong Arts Development Awards
2018

Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese
Criticism (first place)
2014

acadmic publications

‘Epistemology of a glass closet: Anson Lo’s queer stardom and the politics of ambiguity in the post-ELAB Hong Kong,’ in Joanna McIntyre and Anthea Taylor ed., The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity, Routlege, doi: 10.4324/9781003290582-28
2026

‘It almost feels like home: The cinematic articulation of community resilience in post-2019 Hong Kong melodrama’, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, pp. 1–18. doi: 10.1080/17508061.2025.2571371.
2025

‘Researching Queer Fandom in Hong Kong: Aca-fans Methodologies,’ Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories
2025

‘The First Generation of Hong Kong Cinephiles: Yinguang.’ Modernism/modernity, doi: 10.26597/mod.0283.
2024

‘The Erotic, the Avant-garde, and the Anarchist Arts: The Radical Politics Imagination and Literary Representation in The 70s Bi-weekly,’ in Pan Lu ed., Alternative Anti-Establishment: The 70s Bi-weekly and Youth Activism in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: HKU Press
2023

SELECTED WRITINGS

In English

‘Rewriting Proust: Chantal Akerman’s Radical Adaptation of The Captive’ Critics’ Hong Kong Film Critics Society 香港電影評論學會
2026

‘Paul B. Preciado In Conversation with Virginia Woolf: Building a Trans Archive via Orlando, My Political Biography’ Hong Kong Film Critics Society 香港電影評論學會
2026

In Chinese

‘Children, Woman and Intellectuals: Jafar Panahi’s Dissident Films’ Hong Kong Film Critics Society 香港電影評論學會
2025

‘Queer Family Kinship in Chinese Cinema: the Fictive Kinship in Marry My Dead Body and Abang Adik,’ Hong Kong Cinema 2023: In Search of Light 香港電影2023:覓路尋光, Hong Kong Film Critics Society 香港電影評論學會
2024

‘Lesbians images in the postmillennial Hong Kong cinema: Technology, Materialism, and Representation,’ Filmaholic 釀電影
2024

‘Naviging ambigurity: A glance at Hong Kong Tongzhi literature,’ form無形, The House of Hong Kong Literature
2019

‘The right to bear witness: Han Kang’s Human Acts and Wong Bik-wan’s The Death of Lo Kei,’ fleurs des lettres字花
2018

‘Searching for the Voice of Hong Kong –– notes on the Novel Collection of the Compendium of Hong Kong Literature 1919–1949,’ in Kwok Kou Leonard Chan ed., Revisiting Hong Kong Literature重遇香港文學, Hong Kong: Commercial Press
2018

‘Here, There, and Elsewhere in memories: On Wong Bik-Wan’s Children of Darkness and Walter Benjamin’s notion of remembering,’ in The 5th Dream of the Red Chamber Award Essay Collection第五屆紅樓夢獎評論集：黃碧雲《烈佬傳》, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist University Department of Arts
2016

Curations

Curator
Critics’ Choice 2026 Transfiguration: From Novel to Film
2026

Curator
Queer Room, Major Pop Art, Sheung Wan
2025

CREATIVE PROJECTS

Editor, Special issue:Queering Hong Kong Cinema 酷異香港電影, HKinema #68-69
2026

Editor, Script collection of the Senior Actors 銀齡有好戲：「長・智・戲」劇本集, Hong Kong: Department of Cultural and Religious Studies and Art’s Options Limited.
2025

Editor, Special issue: Tongzhi in film: Representation and gaze in Asian queer cinemas, Filmaholic 釀電影

Editor, Writing in Difficult Times: Bilingual Essays Collection 困頓之書, Hong Kong: Cart Noodle Press, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2021

Editor, Nicholas Wong, Aurora Tsui trans., Crevasse 天裂, Hong Kong: Spicy Fish Cultural Publishing.
2018

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