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TUNG Wan Qing
Senior Lecturer
wanqing.tung@newera.edu.my
PhD Candidate of Gender Studies, University Malaya (In Progress)
Master of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Bachelor of Media and Communication Studies, Murdoch University, Australia
MAJOR Media and communication, cultural studies
RESEARCH AREAS Media and culture, new media communication, media literacy, oral history
TEACHING SUBJECTS

Media, Technology and Society; New Media Communication; Media Literacy; Activism and Cultural Participation; Feminism; Popular Culture; Cultural Diversity; Editing; Newspaper Production and Publication.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, New Era University College (2025- )
Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, New Era University College (2022-2025)
Lecturer, Oneworld Hanxin College (2020-2022)
Part-time Lecturer, Oneworld Hanxin College (2018-2020)
Research Assistant, Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya (2018-2019)
Editor, HK01 Company Limited, Hong Kong (2017-2018)
Library Officer, Research for Social Advancement Berhad, REFSA (2014-2015)
Assistant Editor, Genta Media Sdn Bhd (2011-2015)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Member of Editorial Board, High School General Studies Teachers’ Manual (2024)
Member of Advisory Board, High School General Studies Teachers’ Manual (2023)
Columnist, Malaysiakini Chinese (2013-2019)
Co-founder, Rumah Attap Library and Collective (2017- )
Co-founder, In Between Cultura (2015- )
Editor, Street Voice (2013-2015)

RELATED ACHIEVEMENTS:
BOOKS

Anggota Kelompok Sejarah Lisan 13 Mei (Eds.). (2025). Kehidupan seterusnya: Sejarah lisan 13 Mei. Gerakbudaya.

Members of the May 13 Oral History Group (Eds.). (2022). Life after: Oral histories of the May 13 Incident. Gerakbudaya.

Members of the May 13 Oral History Group (Eds). (2020). Reborn from the wound: Personal Narratives of May 13 (在伤口上重生——五一三事件个人口述叙事). Gerakbudaya.

L.P., Chung, Wong K.K., Yong K., Tung W.Q. (Eds). (2022). Proactive Netizens: A Guide of Media Literacy to Break Through Chaos (进击的网民:混乱世界中必修的媒体素养课). In Between Cultura.

Danny Wong T. K., Tan, M. I., Por, H. H., & Tung, W. Q. (2021). Lead and grow: 115 years of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. University of Malaya Press.

Danny Wong et.al. (Eds).  (2021). Lead and grow: 115 years of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor (领航与创新:吉隆坡暨雪兰莪中华总商会115年). University of Malaya Press.

Yong Kiat (Ed). (2015). The Monstrosity of Development: Rethinking and Resisting the Illusion of Economic Growth (发展的怪兽:经济成长幻梦下的反思与反抗). Genta Media.

Street Voice Editorial Team (Eds). (2014). Street Voice (2013/09-2014/08) (街报一周年合辑(2013/09-2014/08). Genta Media.
CONFERENCE PAPERS

Tung Wan Qing. (2024, July 30). A preliminary study of the oral histories of female garment workers in Malaysia in the 1970s. 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS).

Goh Siew Poh. & Tung W. Q. (2019, March 10). Resistance or supplementation? A preliminary study of history and memory representations in community-based heritage museums/story museums of the Chinese community in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia. “The Rise of the Rest”: 20th Annual Conference and International Symposium of Cultural Studies.
RESEARCH PROJECTS

Across the Footbridge 2.0: Reading Spaces and Living Memories in Kuala Lumpur (2025)

Across the Footbridge: A Cultural Map of Kuala Lumpur — Bookstores and Libraries (2024)

The Social Protection Response to COVID-19 in Southeast Asia. [Assisted in interviews] Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand (2021)

The 120-year History of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Kuala Lumpur & Selangor, Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya (2018-2019)
OTHER WORKS

Selected Essays

Special Commemoration of the Women’s Section of the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (unpublished)

Teachers’ Manual for Senior Secondary General Studies—Introduction to General Studies, Media Literacy Chapter (Dong Zong, 2024)

The Rumah Attap Library: A Hidden Place Away from Distractions (After Work, 2024)

“The unstoppable urban migration flow: the oral story of a new migrant woman in Hong Kong” (Lingnan Cultural Studies Journal, Issue 62, March 2018)

“Searching for the ‘comfort women’ in Malaysia: war has no female face” (寻找马来西亚“慰安妇”身影:战争没有女人的脸), in Heteroglosia: From Gender Politics to Life Narratives, 2017, pp.27-40.

“Two Ideas of Tacit Knowledge” (Lingnan Cultural Studies Journal, Issue 56, January 2017)

“‘Comfort Women’—A Book of Forgetting and Laughter” (Hong Kong 01 – World, Issue 40, pp. 1–20, 9 December 2016)

“Have You Got Shocked Today?! How Content Farms Generate Affective Publics in Cyberspace…” (Cultural Studies @ Lingnan, Vol. 51, March 2016)

“Baram and the Civil Disobedience Movement.(巴南:公民不服从运动)” In The Monstrosity of Development: Rethinking and Resisting the Illusion of Economic Growth, 2015, pp. 90–92.

“Seeing a Beautiful Negaraku.” In The Bersih 2.0: i-Witness Account  (共赴709:Bersih实录), K.P., Yong, Chan W.S. (Eds), 2011, Kuala Lumpur: Prometheus Enterprise, Mkini Dotcom, Merdeka Review, 2011, pp. 102–109.

Columns

Majalah Pelajar 中学生 (2023-2025)

  • “The Ethics of Creation in the Short-Video Era: Talking About Chicken Bones in Rice Balls”
  • “How Should We Think About #MeToo?”
Malaysiakini & Contemporary Review (2013–2019)
  • “The ‘We’ in Times of Disaster: Reading The Man Who Came Back Alive”
  • “Is It Enough for Girls to Just Learn a Few Words? Revisiting a Century of Chinese Girls’ Education in Malaya and Singapore”
  • “Death Penalty or Not Is Not Only About Whether Someone Should Die”
  • “How Film and Literature Intervene in History and Construct the ‘Malayan Communist Party’ World”
  • “Lau Kek Huat: We Need Many Documentaries to Deal with History”
  • “Seeing the Real China: Reading Their Journey”
  • “Have You Used Waze Today? Media and Communities on the Move”
  • “Reflections on Rationality and Emotion During the World Cup”
  • “The Depth of Crisis Management Is Not Just Crisis Management”
  • “From ‘I’ to ‘We’”
  • “Why Do We Escape Freedom?”
  • “Wander in the City”
  • “Australia’s Journey on Ethnic Reconciliation”
  • “Under the Same Moonlight”
  • “Is It Really Coming to an End?”
  • “The Life in Human Resources Office—A Letter to Migrant Workers”
  • “Seeing a Beautiful Negaraku”
Street Voice (2013–2014)
  • “Series 3: Be Your Own Media—Hong Kong Edition on Independent Media”
  • “Street Literacy: The Melancholy Behind a Crazy World Cup”
  • “Series 2: Technological Breakthrough—Malaysia’s Online Media”
  • “Series 1: Citizens Responding to the Mainstream—Alternative Media in Taiwan”
  • “Beyond the Lens: The Nature, Challenges, and Social Relations of Documentaries”
  • “Who Is Development For? Land Justice and Housing Rights”
  • “Listen to the Voices of Workers”

Other published articles: http://wqtung.wordpress.com/

Translation

  • “Follow Me” Media Literacy Board Game, designed and published by Projek Pandai Media
  • Yeo Bee Yin, “Politics ON or NOT? Reignite Imagination, Co-create the Future”, Kuala Lumpur: Democratic Action Party, 2018.
  • “Baling” stage script, Five Arts Centre, 2018
AWARDS/
HONOURS

2022: Co-published book Proactive Netizens: A Guide of Media Literacy to Break Through Chaos (进击的网民:混乱世界中必修的媒体素养课) was selected by Sin Chew as the Top 10 Best Books (Non-fiction).

2016: Best Academic Performance Award, MA in Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

2007: Excellent Academic Achievement Award, Diploma in Media Studies, New Era College
TALKS / PUBLIC LECTURES

Talks

  • A Brief History of Feminist Movements and Human Rights (Majalah Pelajar / Dong Zong, 21 June 2025)
  • Why Media Literacy Matters in the Digital Social Media Era (Majalah Pelajar / Dong Zong, 8 February 2025)
  • Too Much Information to Process—What Should We Trust? Media Literacy in the Digital Age (Pavilion Bukit Jalil, 11 January 2025)
  • Writing and Reflecting Local History: Moving Beyond a Singular Chinese Narrative (Rumah Attap Library, 7 September 2024)
  • Promoting Social Harmony and Reducing Polarisation in Malaysia (I Want Festival, 31 August 2024)
  • Information Overload and Chaos—What Kind of Media Literacy Do We Need? (New Era University College, 24 April 2024)
  • Media Literacy × Fact-Checking Workshop (New Era University College, 9 January 2024)
  • Reflecting on State Violence (Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, 18 November 2023)
  • In an Era of Information Chaos, What Kind of Media Literacy Do We Need? (Book launch of Proactive Netizens, Rumah Attap Library, 6 August 2022)
  • Online Publishing Roundtable, Lingnan Cultural Studies Annual Conference, 19 March 2016

YouTube

  • Civic Micro Lecture EP03: Featuring Chicken Bones for Views? When Three Teenagers’ Performative “Good Deed” Backfires (Dong Zong, 19 September 2025)

Book Talk

  • Liu Shaohua, The Disease Is Not Like That: An Anthropologist's Talk about Mother-Daughter Co-morbidity (Rumah Attap Library, 19 April 2025)
  • Proactive Netizens: A Guide of Media Literacy to Break Through Chaos (Rumah Attap Library, 6 November 2022)
  • Agnes Khoo, Life Like a River: Life Stories of 16 Women in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand (Rumah Attap Library, 5 December 2020)

Hosting / Moderation

  • “How AI Technology Affects Information Dissemination and the Media Environment” (New Era University College BBCC Website Launch Ceremony, 29 October 2024)
STUDENT’S ADVISOR

Advisor of The Kajang Observer, students’ community newspaper

  • 2019/09, 2023/05, 2023/09 (Editorial and Design Department)
  • 2022/09, 2024/05, 2024/09, 2025/05, 2025/09 (Marketing and Social Media Department)