Kenny Ng

Kenny Ng Kwok-kwan is a Hong Kong film scholar specializing in film censorship. He is currently an associate professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Early life and education Ng obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1991 and a Master of Philosophy in humanities from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1996. During his studies in Hong Kong, he was mentored by literary scholar . He then pursued doctoral studies in the United States, His dissertation focused on Chinese novelist Li Jieren, whose works were marginalized in the 1930s but gained recognition from the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s. while historian Yuehtsen Juliette Chung noted that the book "makes a significant contribution" to the study of politics and culture in the People's Republic of China. Ng briefly taught at the Open University of Hong Kong and the City University of Hong Kong before joining the Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University as an associate professor in 2017. In 2018, he co-edited Indiescape Hong Kong: Critical Interviews and Essays, a collection on Hong Kong cinema, with academics Enoch Tam and Vivian Lee.

In 2021, he published Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Hong Kong Cinema with Sino-links in Politics, Art, and Tradition, a book examining Hong Kong's film censorship. Scholar Leo Ou-fan Lee, who wrote the preface, commended the book for "covering a wide range of topics" and for "demonstrating Ng's extensive research efforts". while researcher Kuan Chee Wah lauded the book's scope as "rich" and viewed as "'history lesson' for contemporary filmmakers who are faced with a different censorship atmosphere from that of their predecessors". In 2022, Ng criticized Hong Kong's film censorship following the implementation of the 2020 Hong Kong national security law in an interview with BBC, where he likened the censorship to "a return to the 1950s" and expressed concern that it would "significantly impact independent films, documentaries, and short films".