Chang, Hsiao-Chi
Hsiao-Chi Chang is a PhD. Student in Education at the University of California, Davis. Her emphasis area is educational policy and school organization. Currently, she is working on research on effect of instructors’ pedagogy upon undergraduate learning outcome in Taiwan and the United States, and academic achievement of children of immigrants in Taiwan. Her educational backgrounds is multidisciplinary from B.A. in Chinese Literature with minor in Foreign Language at National Tsinghua University (2001-2005), Master in Educational Leadership at The University of Montana, National Chengchi University (2005-2007). 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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Chen, Chien-Yuan
Chien-Yuan Chen is currently a visiting researcher in Department of Sociology at Peking University and Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in Department of Anthropology at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He is working on his fieldwork focusing on East Asian tourism and mutual imagination(s) behind these activities. He also focuses on anthropology of food and cuisine and Japanese popular culture in general.

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Cheng, Chi-Jung (Emilia)
Chi-Jung (Emilia) Cheng is a research student in Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research topic engages in the discussion of historical representation in contemporary transnational Chinese cinemas, and how history becomes an accessible commodity in the global film market. Other research interests include Asian cinema and issues on diaspora. To contact her, you can write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Guo, Wei-Ting
Wei-Ting Guo is a Ph.D. student in Asian Studies at University of British Columbia. He received his LL.B and M.L. from College of Law, National Taiwan University, and his LL.M. from Gould School of Law, University of Southern California. His main interest lies in legal transitions in Taiwan during the Qing, Japanese, and Nationalist periods, as well as correlation among legal practices, popular religion, and other intellectual traditions in late imperial China. His dissertation will examine violent culture in Qing-ruled Taiwan with a focus on its interaction with memory, identity, ideology, and legal sensibility.

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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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Hung, Christine
Christine Hung is from Taipei, Taiwan. She obtained the Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature (major: English) from National Chung-Cheng University. She was lead actress and publicity manager for the annual graduate performance in her department at university and served as English tutor in a private institution in Taiwan. Prior to coming to Sydney 7 years ago, she did part-time interpreting for IDP. After finishing an MA in Theatre Studies and a second MA in Chinese Studies with a thesis on Hou Hsiao-hsien at UNSW, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema Studies in UWS. She served as a research assistant and tutor in Film History at UNSW and is also a guest lecturer in Asian Cinema at UWS. Currently, she is teaching children mandarin at ACCS in Sydney as well as writing her PhD thesis on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s women-centered cinematic texts, which engages with culture, gender, and political history.

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Kuo, Yang-Yi
Yang-Yi Kuo is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University College London (UCL). He was an exhibit designer at National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan. He received his M.Arch. in Architectural Design from Tunghai University and B.Sc. in Zoology from National Taiwan University. He is currently doing his fieldwork in Northern Taiwan and working on his dissertation on the role material culture plays in the diaspora's everyday life. He is also interested in the embodied experiences of cities and poetic representations of museums.

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Lee, Chengpang
Chengpang Lee is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Chicago. He received his BA from National Taiwan University with double majors 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 political sociology specialized in social movements, comparative historical methods and sociology of religion. He has several animal friends and now lives with two cats.

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Lee, Yi-tze
Yi-tze Lee is currently a PhD candidate of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include shamanism, indigenous media, and agricultural biotechnology. He received BA of Psychology from NTU, MA from National Donghwa University and from University of Chicago. His paper on indigenous Television Channel in Taiwan will be published in the anthology of “Alternative Culture and Ethnic Relationships” in Chinese by Shih-Hsin University Press. He is doing doctoral research on the development of agricultural biotechnology and the making of specialists' knowledge communities on traditional and molecular agricultural biotechnology. He uses biomass energy and organic farming as examples in order to examine the ideology of "sustainability" in Taiwan. His did fieldwork with Taiwanese indigenous Amis people in his current and previous projects. He also joins the group of Non-GM zone movement with Homemaker's Union.

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Liang, Chih-Ming (Chris)
Chih-Ming (Chris) Liang is a SJD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. His research interests include democratic theories, regulatory theories, and constitutionalism. He believes that a more flexible and innovative regulatory regime, which focuses on stakeholder collaboration instead of electoral competition, can help consolidate Taiwan’s nascent democracy. His master’s dissertation, finished on Aug. 2009, is titled “Network Governance, Accountability, and the Privacy of Electronic Health Records.” During the SJD program, he plans to study the quality control of health care delivery as an example of such governance approach. His email address is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Lin, Cheng-Ying (Grace)
Grace Cheng-Ying Lin is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University. Her areas of interest are gender and religion, anthropological approaches and Chinese studies.

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Lin, Chien-Ting
Chien-Ting Lin is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies of Literature Dept. at University of California, San Diego. His research interests include transnational cultural politics, Chinese body politics and urban cultural sentiments, and the topics of migration within modernity and globalization.

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Liu, Yen-Chi
Yen-Chi Liu is a JSD student in Law at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include child welfare and behaviors of welfare agency.

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Wang, Wan-Jui
Wan-Jui Wang (王萬睿) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Film Studies at University of Exeter. He received his B.A. degree in Chinese Literature (Creative Writing Section) from Chinese Culture University. He got his first master degree in Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University and second master in Critical Media and Cultural Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His academic interests include in Taiwanese literature, Taiwan cinema, transnational Chinese cinemas and postcolonial studies. He is currently working on his dissertation titled “Crossing Borders in Taiwan Cinema: Ethnicity, Nationhood and Identity”. You are welcome to contact him at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Wu, Hsin-Yang
Hsin-Yang, Wu is a PhD Candidate of the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle. He rceived an LL.B. and an LL.M. from the National Taiwan University and an Asian & Comparative Law LL.M. from the UW School of Law. He worked in the Arbitration Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and engaged in several government research projects on the Japanese Colonial Court decisions, the Compulsory Automobile Liability Insurance Law, the Administrative Act, and the Fair Trade Law. He was sponsored by the Taiwanese government to further his research at Asian Law Center of the UW School of Law. His dissertation will be on official language legislation in modern states. His research will extend to human rights, especially language rights and equal protection of minorities, indigenous peoples, and immigrants. He enjoys singing while driving alone but refuses to sing in public. He likes to watch baseball games and play video games, but he never identifies himself as an otaku.

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Qi, Dongtao
Dongtao Qi is a Visiting Research Fellow in the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. He is from China and received Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University in 2009. He is working to further develop his dissertation, entitled “The Taiwan Independence Movement in Power: The Dilemmas of a Movement Government.” His other research interests include Chinese nationalism, collective resistance in post-Mao rural China.

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