Huang, Cheng-Yi
Cheng-Yi Huang is a J.S.D. (Doctor of Jurisprudence) candidate at The University of Chicago Law School. Growing up in the scenic Eastern Taiwan, he first found his intellectual interests in literature and poetry, but ended up in studying social science and law (B.A. in Political Science, LL.B. and LL.M., National Taiwan University). After practicing law at Baker & McKenzie Taipei Office, he received a governmental scholarship for advanced studies in the United States. While his diverse research interests include legal anthropology, postcolonial historiography and positive political theory, his scholarship to date has comprised Taiwanese legal history, administrative law, regulatory policy, comparative democratization, sex equality, and East Asian law and development. He has presented his works and discussed papers at annual meetings of the Law & Society Association, the Association for Asian Studies Association, and the American Political Science Association. He is a winner of Law and Social Inquiry's 2007 Graduate Student Paper Competition. His award-winning paper will be published on the journal soon in 2008. In addition to being a frequent op/ed contributor and editorial columnist for China Times, Apple Daily, and Taipei Times (English), he also writes novels and has won the Law and Literature Award from the Taipei Bar Association in 2004. He and his wife live in Chicago now. (E-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

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Chen, Ching-chang
Ching-Chang Chen is a PhD candidate in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. His research interests include international relations theory, critical security studies, and East Asia. Ching-Chang's doctoral thesis examines the ways in which China is perceived as a threat in Taiwanese security discourse and the manifest political consequences of adopting this mode of representation over other alternatives. He will be involved in a cross-national research project on how Europe or European Union is perceived in China, Japan, and Taiwan after his graduation. Ching-Chang has served in the NATSA since 2005. He can be reached at (E-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

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Chang, Ching-yu
Ching-Yu Chang is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at University of Florida. Her areas of interest are gender and occupation, work, families, qualitative/feminist methods and East Asian studies.

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Szeto, Edwin
I grew up in Taipei and Hong Kong, and have resided in Columbus, Ohio, USA since 2001. I will be graduating from Ohio State University in 2008 with Bachelors in Psychology, Mathematics, and Chinese majors, and a Sexuality Studies minor. I am applying to graduate programs in clinical psychology to research the processes and outcomes of depression and anxiety psychotherapy. Specifically, I am interested in the role of intra- and inter-personal communications in mediating therapeutic changes: i.e. using narrative studies in social and personality theories, as well as humanities, to strengthen the interface and application of narrative formation/assessment in a clinical context.

I am completing an honors thesis with Dr. Patricia Sieber, titled "Thinking Outside of the Closet: Negotiations of Taiwanese Gay and Lesbian Subjectivities in Modern Fiction, 1994-1998."  I have a strong general interest in empowerment and education of individuals in a multicultural context. That is why I became a Resident Advisor in residence halls and math/stats tutors for Student Affairs for 3 years, and researched in psycholinguistics and clinical and developmental psychology to prepare for a researching/teaching career in clinical psychology.

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Tseng, Hsun-hui
Hsun-Hui Tseng is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests include transnational migration, gender/sexuality, race, East and Southeast Asia. Her dissertation examines how gender, race and class are interwoven together to form hierarchies in the transnational marriage market of Taiwan. To pursue the “truth” of marriage brokerage, she traveled to Ukraine, China and Vietnam with marriage groups and became a self-guided travel expert by accident. This spring she will go on another “anthropological trip” from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand to India with a perfect excuse—attending an conference. In addition, she is also interested in photography, singing, cooking, eating and sleeping. She dreamed of becoming a hairdresser or an owner of a tofu pudding house (Dou Hua Dian) when she was a child. Even though she is now on the track of becoming a professor, she never gives up practicing haircut and tasting Dou Hua everywhere in her daily life. Here is a link to her photo album (will be updated soon): http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsunhui You are welcome to contact her at   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (academic use only).

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Liang, Peilin
Raised and educated in Taiwan, New Zealand and Hawai'i, an ardent advocate of island perspectives from the Pacific region. Peilin is an ABD from the Department of Theatre at University of Hawai'I (Manoa). Her current research topic is 'Weaving a Tale of Many Voices- The Making of Multiculturalism in Taiwan's Contemporary Theatre'. Her research interests include postcolonialism, multiculturalism, cultural production, contemporary theatre in Taiwan, New Zealand women writers, literature and theatre of the Pacific.

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Liang, Li-fang
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University. I received my bachelor's degree in sociology from National Taipei University. Later, I pursued my M.A. training in multicultural education at National Hualien Teachers College. My thesis focuses on how the social structure has shaped Amis women's identity and their self-images. Continuing my previous concerns in gender, race and inequality, my current academic interests include institutional ethnography, feminist methodology, carework, migration, and globalization. My dissertation looks at the processes of commercializing carework through the coordination between nation-state and the relevant social agents in transnational context.

The experiences of living abroad inspire me to (re)think the world in which we live from a transnational perspective attentive to inequalities amongst countries. I am not only training to be a sociologist, getting to know what is happening around the world, but I am also starting to form my political identity and align myself with the global community that seeks social justice across various boundaries, such as gender, race, class, nationality and so forth.

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Han, Peichun
Peichun Han is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the Waseda University, Japan. She received her B.A. in International Relations from the National Taiwan University and M.A. in Public Policy from the Georgetown University at Washington DC, USA. Her research interests focus on East Asian and migration studies, particularly on those related to identity and cultural comparisons. Her proposed dissertation surveys on the Taiwanese diasporas. She examines the unique traits of Taiwanese migrants and Chinese overseas in Japan through comparative approaches. In addition to a number of newspaper editorial articles, she is the author of "China Studies in Japan" published in the Quarterly of Mainland China Studies Vol. 70 (National Taiwan University Press, October 2005 ). Her latest paper, "Hidden in-betweenness," is expected to be published by Asian Ethnicity Vol.8 No.2 (Taylor and Francis Group Press, June 2008 ). Contact: Email- This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / Cell Phone (+81)-80-5188-7027

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Glassey-Tranguyen, Trangdai
Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen came into the world starting to negotiate social issues at an early age as she experienced Vietnam's post-war conditions after 1975. Her childhood and young adulthood prompted her to commit her life to the common good, peace processes, democratization, social justice, and heritage preservation. As a 1.5er in Vietnamese and pan-ethnic Americas, Glassey-Tranguyen is one of the most prominent pioneers in bridging the intra-group generational gaps and inter-community cultural divergence through her relentless activism and acclaimed scholarship. Her love for her motherland Vietnam translates profoundly into her love for America, her Fulbright-nation Sweden, and countries of the world which she had set foot on while mapping out the Vietnamese diasporas and taking heart on how her ethnic culture interacts with those of the world.

Glassey-Tranguyen is widely recognized for her outstanding achievements, services, artistry, and research. She graduated as outstanding student from two departments, liberal studies and ethnic studies, in 2001, attaining at the same time two other bachelor's degrees in English and child/adolescent studies from California State University , Fullerton (CSUF). In 2004, she was honored as the CSUF Outstanding Graduate Student, as well as the Asian Pacific American Islander Outstanding Student, amongst numerous other high honors and awards. She won the 2004 18th Annual CSU-wide Research Competition with "Orange County, Yellow History: An Intimate Encounter with Vietnamese American Lives" which eloquently engaged peace making and racial harmony. In 2004-2005, Glassey-Tranguyen was accorded with a Fulbright fellowship to carry out the Vietnamese Stockholm Project "Home in Stockholm: Vietnamese Narratives of Transnationalism" and the Vietnamese Diaspora Studies. She holds a master's in cultural and social anthropology from Stanford University. Glassey-Tranguyen has embarked on addressing, documenting, and advocating against the trafficking and exploitation of children and women in Southeast Asia with mindfulness of the global scale of this problem. She continues conducting research and publishing in Asia, America, and Europe.

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