Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Hong Kong cinema scholar dies

Academia has lost a Hong Kong cinema scholar. A post-doc fellow in the comparative literature department at the University of Hong Kong, Stanford Ph.D Yau Ka-Fai, 34, was found dead in an apparent fall from a building in Shaukeiwan, Hong Kong September 5. News reports have been sketchy but colleagues and students at HKU have been mourning his passing.

See an early account:

News article from Oriental Daily News (in Chinese):
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/archive/20080906/new/new_a32cnt.html
港大職員墮樓死有可疑
06/09/2008

HKU bio: http://www.hku.hk/complit/staff/staff.htm

Ka-Fai YAU 邱加輝

Abstract of 2001 CIRA conference paper:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/kyau.htm

See also his paper on HK Cinema in Positions: http://positions.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/citation/9/3/535

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