Jingan Young

Dr Jingan MacPherson Young/Yang/Yeung (Chinese: 楊靜安) is a Hong Kong born award-winning playwright, screenwriter, film scholar and journalist. She is the daughter of John Dragon Young (1949–1996), a scholar of Chinese history and politician in Hong Kong. Her book Soho on Screen, the first study of London's Soho in film was published by Berghahn Books in May 2022 with a foreword by Peter Bradshaw. She is the editor of the groundbreaking 'Foreign Goods: A Selection of Writing by British East Asian Artists', the first collection of British East Asian plays published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Books. She was previously a Lecturer in Screenwriting at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian on film where she writes on a variety of topics including East Asian representation, China and Hollywood, such as on Pixar's "Turning Red." She wrote episode 4 and was a story consultant on the ITVX and Bad Wolf thriller Red Eye (2024 TV series) starring Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage. She is currently working on series 2.