Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

Ming-Yeh Tsai Rawnsley (; born 1965) is a Taiwanese media scholar, writer, and former journalist and TV screenwriter. Since 2013, she has been a Research Associate at Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS University of London. She is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham (2014–present), Research Fellow at the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), University of Tübingen (2015–present), and Research Associate at Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2018–present). M-Y T. Rawnsley is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2018–present ) and associate editor of East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (2013–present).

Career After graduating from the National Taiwan University in 1988, where she studied library science, Tsai went to the Institute of Communications Studies (ICS), University of Leeds in England for an MA and a PhD in communication studies.

Works Books The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945–65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations (Taylor & Francis, 2000) with Richard J. Aldrich and Gary D. Rawnsley 媒體世界 [The World of the Media] (2001) 英倫書房 [Study Room in England] (2001) 英倫蛀書蟲 [A Bookworm in England] (2004) Political Communications in Greater China: The Construction and Reflection of Identity ( Routledge, 2006) with Gary D. Rawnsley Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of 'Hero''' (Routledge, 2011) with Gary D. Rawnsley Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (Routledge, 2015) with Gary D. Rawnsley 看見台灣電影之光 [Discovering Taiwan Cinema] (2015) 界定跨科際 [Framing Trans-Disciplinarity: Bridging the Sciences and Humanities] (2015) 印象之旅：台灣電影、戲劇和景觀藝術的口述歷史 [An Oral History of Cinema, Theatre and Landscape Sculpture in Taiwan] (2013) Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change (Routledge, 2017) with Kuei-Fen Chiu and Gary D. Rawnsley Critical Security, Democratisation and Television in Taiwan (Routledge, 2018) with Gary D. Rawnsley Cultural and Social Change in Taiwan: Society, Cinema and Theatre (Routledge, 2019)

Selected journal articles Screening the Port City: Poetics and Promotions. Genre 55.2 (2022): 85–115. The State of the Field of Global Taiwan Studies Institutions: A Time for Optimism or Pessimism?. International Journal of Taiwan Studies 1.2 (2018): 371–394. Anti–Media-Monopoly Policies and Further Democratisation in Taiwan. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 105 (2014): 105–128. Taiwanese-Language Cinema: State versus Market, National versus Transnational. Oriental Archive 81.3 (2013): 437–458. Cinema, Historiography, and Identities in Taiwan: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's A City of Sadness. Asian Cinema 22.2 (2011): 196–213. Media Reform since 1987. China Perspectives 56 (2004): 46–55. Chiang Kai-shek and the 28 February 1947 Incident: A Reassessment. Issues & Studies 37.6 (2001): 77–106. Regime Transition and the Media in Taiwan. Democratization'' 5.2 (1998): 106–124.