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
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.
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
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)