Chia-rong Wu

新西兰 University of Canterbury Senior Lecturer School of Language, Social and Political Sciences


Sinophone studies with a focus on Taiwan literature and film Strange fiction (志怪) Ghost-island literature (鬼島文學) Aboriginal literature Ecocriticism Taiwan studies Sinophone studies Chinese literature and film


Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A

Wei Teng

新西兰 University of Canterbury Lecturer School of Language, Social and Political Sciences


Community translation/interpreting Pragmatic equivalence in translation/interpreting Development of criteria which can assess such equivalence Community Translation Community Interpreting Translation/Interpreting Assessment Criteria Systemic Functional Linguistics Functional translation theories Learning Chinese as a Second Language


Master’s Degree at University of Adelaide in 2005 with a thesis focusing on the maintenance of textual equivalence in English-Mandarin translation In the final stages of a PhD study at Auckland University of Technology with a project aimed at developing criteria for the assessment of pragmatic equivalence in English-Mandarin health translations.

Alex Tan

新西兰 University of Canterbury Head of Department and Professor of Political Science and International Relations School of Language, Social and Political Sciences


Asian International Relations Democracy and Democratisation Political Parties, Elections, and Political Participation Political Economy of Growth, Development, and Finance Northeast Asian Politics Taiwan Politics and Taiwan-China Relations Southeast Asian Politics Political Science Research Methods


PhD (Political Science) from Texas A&M University MA (Economics) from the University of California at Santa Barbara AB (Economics) from the Ateneo de Manila


Was tenured associate professor at the University of North Texas Postdoctoral fellow at the Southern Methodist University (Dallas) Banker with HSBC Research fellow at Taiwan Institute of Economic Research

Xiaoming Wu

新西兰 University of Canterbury Adjunct Associate Professor School of Language, Social and Political Sciences


Philosophical rereading of Confucian and Daoist classics Comparative studies of Chinese and European thought Chinese and comparative literature, with a particular emphasis on modern Chinese literature and the literary influences it received from Western romanticism The modern Chinese writer 鲁迅 Lu Xun The relevance of traditional Chinese thought to modern life and the potentiality of a philoso...


Bachelor of Arts (Fudan University) Master of Arts (Peking University) Doctor of Philosophy (University of Sussex)