Professor Wanning Sun
Professor, China Research Centre
Email: Wanning.Sun@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 9939
Fax: +61 2 9514 3939
Room: CB10.05.432
(map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123,
Broadway NSW 2007,
Australia
Biography
Wanning Sun is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies at China Research Centre, UTS. Prior to her arrival at UTS, she was with the School of Media, Communication and Creative Arts (from 2000 to 2008) at Curtin University, Western Australia. Wanning was Visiting Professor at Asian and Asian American Studies Program at State University of New York from 2005 to 2006. Wanning researches and supervises research students in a number of areas, including Chinese media and cultural studies, gender, migration, and social change in contemporary China, and diasporic Chinese media. Wanning is the author of two single-authored monographs Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (Routledge, 2009), and editor of Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce, (Routledge, 2006). She is a member of the editorial board for Media International Australia, and a member of the executive advisory board of Asian Journal of Communication.
Wanning is the Chief Investigator of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project "China's Rural Migrant Workers: Social Transition and Cultural Practice" (2010-2012), and one of the Chief Investigators of another ARC Discovery project "The role of lifestyle television in transforming culture, citizenship and selfhood: Australia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and India" (with Dr FA Martin, Dr T Lewis, A/Prof R Harindranath, and Prof JG Sinclair) (2010-2013).
