Autor/-in: Dorothy Wai Sim Lau

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau. is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include stardom, celebrities, fandom, Asian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture and screen culture. She is the author of Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture. (2019), Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power. (2021), Celebrity. Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary. (2024), and East Asian Auteurs, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era. (2025). Lau was the visiting scholar at the School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield in 2022.