TAM King-fai
Adjunct Professor
Courses Taught
Research Interests
Article: “The Traditional Hero as a Modern Detective: Huo Sang in Early Twentieth Century Shanghai,” in The Post Colonial Detective, ed. Ed Christian, New York: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 140-158
Book Chapter: “Beautiful Americans, Ugly Japanese, and Obsequious Chinese: The Depiction of Race in Huang Chun-ming Stories,” in Race and Racism, ed. Berel Lang, Rowan and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 165-176
Selected Conferences and Presentations
“What oral history tells us about the war: the interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong Chinese in the Occupied Years of 1941-1945,” NIOD: the Netherland Institute on the Study of War, Holocaust and Genocide, November 29, 2016
"Looking for justice in Post-Cultural Revolution Chinese Literature". International Symposium on Conflicts, Justice, Memory and Healing 2016, Nishinomiya, 9-10 June 2016
"The Spy’s Private World: Espionage Film and TV drama in the New Era". Conference - Situating Huallywood: Cinematic Interconnections in the Asia-Pacific, Ningbo, 14-15 May 2016
“From An Unknown Girl Rebel to A Celebrated War Correspondent: War in the Eye of a Chinese Woman Soldier” at International Conference “Fighting Women in Asia and Europe During and After World War II” Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Science, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, June 11-13, 2014
“香港棟篤笑表演: 語言與歷史”,National University of Singapore, September 13, 2013
Conference Organizer and Host: “Fighting Women: Heroines in Post-War Hong Kong Popular Culture,” The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, May 13 and 14, 2015
Conference Organizer and Host, International Conference on Political Humor in Modern China: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, December 9-10, 2013
Conference Organizer and Host (with Timothy Tsu, Kwansei Gakuin University and Sandra Wilson, Murdoch University), “Restaging War and Peace: A Comparison of Japanese and Chinese War Movies,” Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Kyoto, July 11-12, 2011