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Flora Chuang arrived at Hope College in 2015 to develop the college亚洲色吧檚 program in Mandarin Chinese. In addition to the modern Mandarin she grew up speaking in Taiwan, she is a fluent reader of Japanese and of classical Chinese. She teaches Mandarin to beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Her other courses include the first year seminar From Confucius to Kung Fu and the Cultural Heritage course Visualizing China in Transition.

One of Dr. Chuang亚洲色吧檚 great interests is film as it relates to culture. In her doctoral dissertation, she explored how New Taiwanese Cinema shapes audiences亚洲色吧� vision of East Asia and Sinophone as imagined communities.

She is a member of ASIANetwork, the Modern Language Association, the Association for Asian Studies and the Chinese Language Teachers Association.

AREAS OF expertise

• Chinese literature and film
• Taiwan New Cinema
• East Asia popular culture
• Cultural theory

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., comparative literature, University of Texas at Austin, 2015
• M.A., comparative literature and cultural studies, University of New Mexico, 2008
• B.A., English, National Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan), 2005

Selected Publications & Presentations

• 亚洲色吧淩ediscovering New Taiwan Cinema in and outside of Greater China: Wei Te-sheng亚洲色吧檚 Cape No. 7 and Chang Tso-chi亚洲色吧檚 Soul of a Demon,亚洲色吧� ASIANetwork Exchange, 2022
• 亚洲色吧淗ow to De-sequence Chinese Language Classes, 亚洲色吧� presentation to Great Lakes Colleges Association Chinese Language Faculty Meetings, 2022
• 亚洲色吧淔inding a Way Home: 亚洲色吧楳agic亚洲色吧� and 亚洲色吧楻ealism亚洲色吧� in Chang Tso-chi亚洲色吧檚 The Best of Times,亚洲色吧� presentation at the ASIANetwork conference Mindful Connectivity: Asian Perspectives and Influences, 2018
• 亚洲色吧淎n Audience亚洲色吧檚 Close Reading of Chang Tso-Chi亚洲色吧檚 Films: From Cuts to Fades into Black in Ah Chung and Darkness and Light,亚洲色吧� Sun Yat-Sen Journal of Humanities, 2016
• 亚洲色吧淎n Inquiry into the Reception of Taiwanese Cinema in the New Millennium,亚洲色吧� presentation at Watersheds Conference, University of Barcelona (Spain), 2014
• 亚洲色吧淭he Legacy of Taiwan New Cinema and Beyond: Newcomers in the 1990s, Cinema in and outside China,亚洲色吧� presentation at University of Manchester (UK), 2013

Outside the college

Dr. Chuang is a mother of two daughters. She enjoys cooking, jogging, doing yoga and exploring West Michigan.