Author Jiahan Olivia Lin

Jiahan Olivia Lin

Jiahan Olivia Lin is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher at the University of Westminster. Her research examines Chinese digital cinephilia and film commentary. Olivia has published an article on nostalgia and Chinese youth cinema in Situations and has worked as a film critic, columnist, and panel organiser at the Oxford China Forum.

Cinephilia Reconsidered: Dorothy Wai Sim Lau’s East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era

Jiahan Olivia Lin

July 2026

Emerging Chinese art cinema director Bi Gan’s latest work, Kuang ye shi dai (Resurrection, 2025), reads like a final letter to cinema. Throughout the story, Bi intertwines the history of world cinema with China...