Dr Wanning Sun
Department of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology
Current ARC Projects
2004-2006 'Maid in China: Gendered Mobilities, Internal Migration and Transnational Imagination'
International Linkages
Foundation Research Fellow at the UNSW-UTS Centre for Research on Provincial China, with David Goodman (UTS, Australia); Louisa Schein (Rutgers U.); Tim Oakes (U. Colorado); Carolyn Cartier (U of Southern California); and Jing Wang (MIT, Boston
Visiting scholar, Department of Television, Beijing Broadcasting Institute
Dr Sun will work closely with Professor Li Tianguo and other researchers from the Institute for Labor Studies, Ministry of Labor and Social Security, PRC, in relation to her current ARC funded project
Publications
Books
Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2002.
Chapters in Books
"Maid in China: From Baomu to Domestic Workers", in Anne McLaren, ed. Chinese Women: Working and Living, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
"Between Indoctrination, Fetishisation, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Anhui Working Girl", in Tamara Jacka and Arianne Gaetano, eds. Rural Women On the Move, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
"Discourse of Poverty: Weakness, Potential and Provincial Identity in Anhui", In John Fitzgerald, ed., Rethinking China's Provinces, London: Routledge, 2002, pp.153-178.
"Semiotic Over-determination or Indoctritainment: Television, Citizenship, and the Olympic Games", in Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis, Stephanie Donald, Michael Keane and Yin Hong, eds. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002, pp. 116-27.
Refereed Articles
"Invisible entrepreneurs: the case of Anhui women", Provincial China, vol. 7, no.2., 2002.
"A Tales of Two Chinese Villages: Television, Women and Modernity", a special issue on gender and cinema in Asian Journal Of Communication, 2001.
" To Go Or Not To Go to America: Cinema and The Desiring City", a special issue on Asian popular culture in Hybridities: Cultures, Identities and Theories, 2001.
"Going Home: History, Nation, and the Mournful Landscapes of Home ?China in the Silk Screen Season", Metro, no. 129, (co-author: Stephanie Donald), 2001.
"A Chinese in the New World: Television Dramas, Global Cities, and Travels to Modernity", Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol.4, 2001.
"Media Events or Media Stories? Time, Space and Chinese (Trans)nationalism", International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol.2. no.2, 2001.
"Internet, Memory, and the Chinese Diaspora - the Case of the Nanjing Massacre Websites", New Formations, no. 40, 2000.
"Diaspora On-line and Postnational Chineseness", in Asia-Pacific Journalism Education, 5, 1998.
"Love Your Country in Your Own Way: Chinese Nationalism, Media and Public Culture", Social Semiotics, 8(2): 1998.
"Monster Houses, Yacht Immigrants, and the Vancouver Sun: Media and Chinese Ethnicity from a Canadian Perspective", Australian Canadian Studies, 15(2): 1998.
"From Metaphor to Irony: Orient(alis)ing the Self in Australian News og the Other", The UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing, 3(2): 1997.
Current Research Interests
television and film studies
journalism studies
Chinese media
media and migration
diasporic media
media theory and analysis
gender, mobility and social change
gender and media representation
Asian media and popular culture
media technology