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Wanning Sun

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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney

Wanning Sun FAHA is best known for her research in a number of areas, including Chinese media and cultural studies; rural to urban migration and social change in contemporary China; soft power, public diplomacy and diasporic Chinese media. Wanning is the author of a major report Chinese-Language Media in Australia: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities (2016). She is currently leading an Australian Research Council Discovery Project “Chinese-Language Digital/Social Media in Australia: Rethinking Soft Power (2018-2020). Wanning is also co-hosting (with Peter Fray) The Middle, a weekly radio program on Sydney 2ser on Australia-China relations.

Experience

  • 2009–present
    Chair professor, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2000–2008
    Associate professor, Curtin University
  • 2005–2006
    Visiting Professor at Asian and Asian American Studies Program, State University of New York

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FAHA