Books
Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
forthcoming October 2024
What is more amazing: the artwork of Tyrus Wong, or the story of his life? Intertwining both, Fang’s captivating narrative unveils Wong’s immigrant journey to his groundbreaking contributions to Bambi and beyond.
— Pete Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters Inc., Up, Inside Out, and Soul
Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film
Stanford University Press, 2017
Karen Fang’s Arresting Cinema provides a long overdue theoretical intervention in Surveillance Studies by ‘provincializing’ the existing Western bias in studies of surveillance cinema
Surveillance & Society Review
A welcome contribution to the ever-growing discussion of surveillance culture
Film Quarterly
A timely book, [with a] premise as fascinating and bone chilling as some of the film noir flicks she describes
LA Review of Books, China Blog
Other Reviews:
Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship
University of Virginia Press, 2010
Original, inspiring [and] tour de force reading
NBOL-19
an illuminating and informative history, not only of periodical writing per se, but also of British Romanticism as a geopolitical phenomenon
Yield[s]...a great many ingenious and striking insights
Will keep you thinking long after you have finished reading
Victorian Periodicals Review
Other Reviews:
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow
Hong Kong University Press, 2004 . (part of the “New Hong Kong cinema” series)
Reviews:
LoveHKFilm.com (May 2009)
China Information (November 2005)
Chinese Cross-Currents (2004 [bilingual])
Caliber (2006)