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Hanqi Yang holds a Master’s degree in Humantarianism and Conflict Response from the University of Manchester and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media from University of Liverpool.
She began her doctoral research at Loughborough University in October 2023, under the supervision of Professor Emily Keightley and Dr Burçe Çelik. Hanqi’s academic interests concern screen media, culture, and memory studies.
Remembering and Forgetting: Cinematic Representation and Cultural Memory of Comfort Women in Mainland China
Supervisors: Professor Emily Keightley and Dr Burçe Çelik
Hanqi’s PhD research focuses on how Chinese cinema dynamically represents the cultural memory of wartime sexual violence, particularly through the lens of the comfort women issue.
Rather than treating these films as static containers of history, Hanqi analyses them as active memory practices—sites where cultural memory is constantly negotiated, reframed, and mediated. She is also exploring how cinematic representations of Chinese comfort women shift in response to changing sociopolitical contexts and cultural sensibilities, revealing deeper patterns of remembrance, denial, and contested meaning.