Li-An Ko is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. With an approach of visual analysis, her doctoral research, titled “Beyond Sadness: Historical Films in the Post-martial Law Period of Taiwan (1987-2017),” reexplores feature films that represent the colonial past of Taiwan and deal with the supressed histories of the island in a postcolonial context. For the research Ko was awarded a two-year scholarship, the Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (the GSSA), from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan in 2017. Her research interests include the topics of historical representation in film, audio-visual history, historical amnesia, and film aesthetics.