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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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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Yang, Hui-Ching
Hui-Ching Yang is a Ph.D. candidate in multicultural education at University of Washington. Her experience as an elementary school teacher in Taiwan pushes her to figure out ways to bridge multicultural education theory and practices. Receiving a B.A degree in Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University directs her research interest to language learning and teaching. Currently, she is working on her dissertation, which is about teacher's beliefs and their instructional practices on the children of new female immigrants from Southeast Asia in Taiwan.

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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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Lee, Chengpang
Chengpang Lee is a PhD student in Sociology at University of Texas, Austin. He received his BA in National Taiwan University with double major in Political Science and Law. He got his first master degree in Sociology at National TsingHua University and second master in social science at the Univeristy of Chicago. His research interests include immigration, social movements and sociology of law. He has several animal freinds and now lives with a cat.

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Han, Ling
Ling Han is a PhD student in Sociology at University of California, San Diego. Her fields of study are Sociology of Culture, Gender, and Globalization. She continues to work on her project--the development of women's organizations in China. She also collaborates with Chengpang Lee to do a statistical and discourse analysis on public attitudes toward foreign spouses in Taiwan. She has three lovely cats--Dodo, Ben, and Mimi.

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Chao, Ning-Yu
Fiona Ning-Yu Chao is a PhD candidate in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on contemporary performance in relation to the negotiation of national identity in Taiwan. You are welcome to contact her at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Hsu, Hsiang-Chien
Graduated from National Chengchi University in Taiwan majored in ethnology, and obtained a Master degree at Kyoto University in Japan majored in migration studies and nationalism sponsored by the scholarship offered by the Japanese government. Currently, Hsu, Hsiang-Chien is a MSc student of the Department of International Relations, the London School of Economics in England. Hsiang-Chien grow up in Taipei, studied and worked in Kyoto, Osaka and Vancouver.

During his study in Japan, he completed his first master thesis 『台湾青年』の台湾ナショナリズムの展開‐『台湾青年』から見られる「台湾人」の排斥と包摂. This thesis contained detailed analysis of the theory of Taiwanese nationalism constructed by a group called the Taiwan Chinglian Associates, the predecessor of World United Formosans for Independence (WUFI).

With his academic background of ethnology, migration studies and international relations, Hsiang-Chien is always open-minded and interested in exotic stimulation and foreign culture. You can reach him by the email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Wang, Fang-yu
Fang-yu Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan. She received her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University and M.A. in Translation and Interpretation Studies from National Taiwan Normal University. In 2006, she received full scholarships from the Ministry of Education and was accepted to the doctoral program of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, USA. Her reserch interests include social linguistics, Asian nationialism and post-colonial studies, with a focus on the development of Hoklo Taiwanese literature and language education. Her proposed dissertation aims to scrutinize the problem of langauge stigmatization in Taiwan witnessed in governmental policies and the mass media. You are welcome to contact her at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Qi, Dongtao
Dongtao Qi is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. He grew up in Mainland China and did some research on Chinese peasants' collective resistance in post-Mao rural China. Now he is working on his dissertation tentatively titled "The DPP Government, Taiwan Independence Movement and Their Social Base Change, 1996-2008: toward a preliminary framework of movement government".

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