Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley

Dr Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley is Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is also Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Rawnsley was Secretary-General, European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS, 2012–2018), and is the founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2018–present), co-sponsored by EATS and Academia Sinica. She worked as a researcher at the University of Nottingham (1999–2005) and became Head of Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2005–2007). Before she joined SOAS in 2013 and Academia Sinica in 2018, Dr. Rawnsley researched and taught East Asian film industries at the University of Leeds (2007–2013). She has published widely in both English and Chinese on Chinese-language cinema, culture, and media and democratisation in Taiwan.

Dr Rawnsley’s earlier monographs included The World of Media (媒體世界，in Chinese, 2000) and Critical Security, Democratisation and Television in Taiwan (co-authored with Gary Rawnsley, 2001). She has later published Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (eds with Gary Rawnsley, 2015), Discover Taiwan Films (看見台灣電影之光，in Chinese, 2015), Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change (eds with Kuei-fen Chiu and Gary Rawnsley, 2017).

Her more recent projects include a special issue on ‘Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian)’, Journal of Chinese Cinema 14(2) (eds with Chris Berry, 2020); ‘Screening the Port City: Poetics and Promotions’ research project (with Wyatt Moss-Wellington and Yat-Ming Loo), 2019–2021, which produced one book chapter and two journal articles between 2022 and 2024; ‘Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema’ screening tour and research project on Taiwanese-language cinema of the 1950s–1970s (with Chris Berry, Corrado Neri and Wafa Ghermani), resulting in the publication of Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2024; and Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media, 2^nd Edition (eds with Yiben Ma and Gary Rawnsley, 2025).

Journal and book series editorship

• Series Editor (with Professor Gary Rawnsley), Anthem Impact in Asian Media, Cinema and Communications (short book series), March 2024–present
• Editor-in-Chief,  International Journal of Taiwan Studies, March 2018–present
• Associate Editor, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, March 2013–present

Books and Special Issue of Journals, 2010–present

• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Gary Rawnsley, and Yiben Ma (eds), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 2025
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Corrado Neri, Wafa Ghermani, and Chris Berry (eds), Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (ed.) ‘Cinema and Documentary’ section, Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies Online (Editor-in-Chief: Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao). Leiden: Brill, 2023–2024
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Chris Berry (eds.), Special issue on ‘Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian)’, Journal of Chinese Cinema 14(2), June 2020
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Kuei-fen Chiu and Gary Rawnsley (eds), Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change. London: Routledge, 2017
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary Rawnsley (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media. London: Routledge, 2015
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Jwu-ting Chen, Ji-mao Wang and Kung-pei Tang (eds.), Framing Transdisciplinarity: Bridging Sciences and Humanities (界定跨科際：科學˙社會˙人文), Taipei: Ministry of Education and National Taiwan University Press, 2015 (in Chinese)
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (蔡明燁), Discovering Taiwan Cinema (看見台灣電影之光), Taipei: Youth Culture, 2015 (in Chinese)
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (ed.), topical issue on ‘Continuity and Change in Policies in Taiwan’ for the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 43(3), October 2014
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (蔡明燁), An Oral History of Cinema, Theatre and Landscape Sculpture in Taiwan: Yinxiang zhi lu: Taiwan dianying, xiju he jingguan yishu de koushu lishi (印象之旅：台灣電影，戲劇和景觀藝術的口述歷史) , London: CreateSpace, 2013 (in Chinese)  
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary Rawnsley (eds), Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of ‘Hero’. London: Routledge, 2010

Selective Taiwan-focused Journal Articles and Book Chapters, 2010–present

• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Contemporary Taiwan Cinema’, in Gunter Schubert (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan, 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 2024, pp.393–409.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Wyatt Moss-Wellington and Yat Ming Loo, ‘Representation of Intersectional and Cultural Identities in Taiwanese-Language Port City Cinema’, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 15 February 2024.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Wyatt Moss-Wellington and Yat Ming Loo, ‘Screening the Port City: Poetics and Promotions’, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (July 2022) 55(2): 85-115.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Screening Taiwan Soft Power: Film Festivals in and about Taiwan’, in Astrid Lipinsky and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (eds), Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy: A Decade of Intercultural Discovery in Taiwan, pp.157-183, Vienna: University of Vienna, 2022.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Politics of the Everyday: Taiwanese-Language Cinema of the 1950s–1960s’, Special issue on “Taiwanese-language Films (taiyupian)”, Journal of Chinese Cinema (eds. by Chris Berry and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley), June 2020
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley, ‘Science Communication in Taiwan: Rethinking Local and Global’, in Carsten Storm (ed.), Connecting Taiwan: Participation, Integration, Impacts, London: Routledge, 2019, pp.74–95 
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Chien-san Feng, James Smyth and Jonathan Sullivan, ‘The Media in Democratic Taiwan’, in Jonathan Sullivan and Chun-yi Lee (eds.), A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, London: Routledge, 2018, pp.104–122 
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Kuei-fen Chiu and Gary Rawnsley, ‘From Taiwan New Cinema to post-New Cinema: An introduction’,  in Kuei-fen Chiu, Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley (eds.), Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change, London: Routledge, 2017, pp.1–7.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Cultural translation between “local” and “international”: The Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan’, in Chris Berry and Luke Robinson (eds.), Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp.57–78.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, James Smyth and Jonathan Sullivan, ‘Taiwanese Media Reform’, Journal of the British Association of Chinese Studies Vol.6, December 2016: 66–80 (http://bacsuk.org.uk/journal/journal-current-and-past-entries/taiwanese-media-reform).
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Cultural Democratization and Taiwan Cinema’, in Gunter Shubert (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.373–388.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Ang Lee’, in Gary Bettinson (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: China 2. London: Intellect, 2015, pp.87–91
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Dust in the Wind’, in Gary Bettinson (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: China 2. London: Intellect, 2015, pp.173–175
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (蔡明燁), ‘台灣與國際的接軌: 跨科際思維與科學傳播 (The connection between Taiwan and the world: Transdisciplinary mentality and science communications)’, in Ming-yeh Rawnsley, Ji-mao Wang and Kung-pei Tang (eds.), Framing Transdisciplinarity: Bridging Sciences and Humanities (界定跨科際：科學˙社會˙人文), Taipei: Ministry of Education and National Taiwan University Press, 2015 (in Chinese), pp.1–38
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘The Impacts of Changing Ruling Parties in the Twenty-First Century’, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 43(3), October 2014: 3–12
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Chien-San Feng, ‘Anti–Media-Monopoly Policies and Further Democratisation in Taiwan’, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 43(3), October 2014: 105–128
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Stars as Production and Consumption: A Case Study of Brigitte Lin’, in Leung Wing-Fai & Andy Willis (eds.), East Asian Film Stars. London: Macmillan, 2014, pp.190–204. 
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘”Korean Wave” in Taiwan: Cultural Representation of Identities and Food in Korean TV Drama, Dae Jang Geum’, in Jeongmee Kim (ed.), Reading Asian Television Drama: Crossing Boarders and Breaking Boundaries. London: IB Tauris, 2014, pp.213–234
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Taiwanese-Language Cinema: State versus Market, National versus Transnational’, Oriental Archive 81 (2013), pp.437–458.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Cinema, Identity and Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on A City of Sadness and The Wind that Shakes the Barley’, LSE Journal Taiwan in Comparative Perspective vol.4, December 2012, pp.89–107.
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Documentary in Taiwan’, in Gary Bettinson (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: China. London: Intellect, 2012, pp.17–21 
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Cape No.7’, in Gary Bettinson (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: China. London: Intellect, 2012, pp.139–140 
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary Rawnsley, ‘The Media in Democratic Taiwan’, in David Blundell (ed.), Taiwan Experience Since Martial Law. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012, pp.395–417
• Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, ‘Cinema, Historiography and Identities in Taiwan Cinema: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness’, Asian Cinema Journal 22 (2, Fall/Winter 2011): 196–213

• East Asian and Sinophone cinema, especially Taiwan cinema and Chinese-language cinemas.
• Cultural diplomacy and film festivals with a Taiwan focus.
• Trans-disciplinary science communications with a Taiwan focus.
• Internationalisation of films, documentaries and TV series in Taiwan and China.