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Tung Wan Qing

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TUNG Wan Qing
Lecturer
wanqing.tung@newera.edu.my
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; Technology and Society; Editing; Newspaper publication; New Media Communication; Cultural Diversity; Activism and Cultural Participation, Feminism, Media Literacy.

WORKING EXPERIENCE Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, New Era University College (2022- )
Lecturer, Oneworld Hanxin College (2020-2022)
Research Assistant, Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya (2018-2019)
Editor, HK01 Company Limited, Hong Kong (2017-2018)
Co-founder, In Between Cultura Plt (2015- )
Library Officer, Research for Social Advancement Berhad, REFSA (2014-2015)
Assistant Editor, Genta Media Sdn Bhd (2011-2015)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Freelance writer (2015- )
Co-founder, Rumah Attap Library and Collective (2017- )
Part-time lecturer, New Era University College (2019-2022)
Part-time lecturer, Oneworld Hanxin College (2018-2020)
Part-time tutor, Department of Chinese Studies (2021)
Editorial team, Street Voice (2013-2015)
RELATED ACHIEVEMENTS:
BOOKS
  1. Members of the May 13 Oral History Group (Eds). September 2022. Life After: Oral Histories of the May 13 Incident. Selangor: Gerakbudaya.
  2. L.P., Chung, Wong K.K., Yong K., Tung W.Q. (Eds). May 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). Kuala Lumpur: In Between Cultura.
  3. Members of the May 13 Oral History Group (Eds). March 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). Selangor: Gerakbudaya. 
  4. 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). Kuala Lumpur : Genta Media.
  5. Street Voice Editorial Team (Eds). 2014. Street Voice (2013/09-2014/08) (街报一周年合辑(2013/09-2014/08). Kuala Lumpur: Genta Media.
CONFERENCE PAPERS

Siew Poh, Goh, Tung Wan Qing. (10 March, 2019). “Historical Justice and Daily Struggle: Contemporary Malaysian Resistance Narrative in Contemporary Malaysia”, presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association – The Rise of the Rest, organized by Cultural Studies association and Chaio Tung University, Taiwan.

RESEARCH PROJECTS
  1. A Preliminary Study on the Oral History of Female Garment Workers in 1970s Malaysia. (2024- )
  2. [Assisted in interviews] The Social Protection Response to COVID-19 in Southeast Asia, Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand (2021)
  3. [Research, write and provide exhibition materials] The 120-year History of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Kuala Lumpur & Selangor, Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya (2018-2019)
TRANSLATIONS / WRITINGS

Translation

  1. The Chinese version of the “Follow Me” Card Game designed and published by Projek Pandai Media, Malaysia.
  2. The Chinese version of Yeo Bee Yin, (2018), Reimagining Malaysia (政治onon?重燃想像,共创未来). Kuala Lumpur: Democratic Action Party.
  3. Full script of “Baling”, a documentary performance from Five Arts Centre, 2018. (unpublished)

Writing

  1. “What Can We Reflect on #MeToo?” (我们该如何思考MeToo?), published in DongZong Blueprint, 7 November 2023, https://dzblueprint.dongzong.my/component/content/article/121-author/1246-1246?Itemid=385
  2. “Searching for the ‘comfort women’ in Malaysia: A war was always without women's faces” (寻找马来西亚“慰安妇”身影:战争没有女人的脸), published in [Malaysia] Heteroglosia: From Gender Politics to Life Narrative, 2017, pp.27-40.
  3. “The unstoppable flow of urban migration - the oral story of a migrant woman”, published in the E-journal of Lingnan Cultural Studies, Issue 62, https://www.ln.edu.hk/mcsln/archive/62nd_issue/pdf/critic_05.pdf
  4. “Two ideas on tacit knowledge”, published in the E-journal of Lingnan Cultural Studies, Issue 56, 2017, https://www.ln.edu.hk/mcsln/archive/56th_issue/criticism_01.shtml
  5. “Have you got shocked today?! How Content Farms generate affective publics in cyberspace…”, published in the E-journal of Lingnan Cultural Studies, Issue 51, March 2016,  https://www.ln.edu.hk/mcsln/archive/51st_issue/criticism_04.shtml
  6. “Did you Waze today? Media and community on the move”, published in Malaysiakini, March 2016, https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/333268
  7. “Baram and the civil disobedience movement”, published in 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), 2015, pp.90-92.
  8. “Seeing a beautiful Negaraku”, published in The Bersih 2.0, i-Witness Account (共赴709Bersih实录), K.P., Yong, Chan W.S. (Eds), 2011, Kualau Lumpur: Prometheus Enterprise, Mkini Dotcom, Merdeka Review, pp.102-109.

【Column】

  1. Malaysiakini (Chinese), 2013-2019.
  2. Contemporary Review, 2020.
TALKS / PUBLIC LECTURES
  1. Speaker “Writing and Reflecting on Local History: What’s Next for Chinese History”, Rumah Attap Library & Collective, 7 September 2024.
  2. Panellist for “Promoting Harmony and Reducing Polarization through Media Literacy in Malaysia”, I Want Festival, 31 August 2024.
  3. Speaker for “Revisiting State Violence”, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese assembly Hall (KLSCAH), 18 November 2023.
  4. Panellist for “What kind of media literacy do you need in the age of misinformation?”, Rumah Attap Library & Collective, 6 August 2022.
  5. Book reading: on Media and Democracy, Rumah Attap Library & Collective, 6 November 2022.
  6. Book reading: Life as the River Flows: Women in the Malayan Anti-colonial Struggle (an Oral History of Women from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore), Rumah Attap Library & Collective, 5 December 2020.
  7. Panellist for “Roundtable on Online Publication”, Lingnan MCS Annual Symposium, Hong Kong, 19 March 2016.
AWARDS/
HONOURS
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 SinChew as the Top 10 Best Books (Non-fiction) in 2022.
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 (Marketing and Social Media Department)