Dr. Chun-Yi Lee
MEARC Writing Up Grant Recipient
School of Asian Studies, Leiden University
Arsenaalstraat 1, PO Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
E-Mail: c.lee@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
June 2009 - July 2009
Field Researcher for the project ‘Taiwanese people in Mainland China's Identity Change’, co-organized with Hong Kong University, East Asia Studies Centre of Chengchi University in Taiwan
September 2008 - up to present
Associate Research Fellow of Institute of Asia Pacific Studies (IAPS), School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK
September 2008-June 2009
Part-time lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
March 2008 - January 2009
Research assistant for the project ‘Political Communication in New Democracies’, University of
Leeds, founded by the British Academy
September 2005 - June 2008
Part-time Teaching Assistant at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of
Nottingham, UK
June - July 2007
Full-time tutor of the Summer Institute at Nottingham for UNNC students 2007-2008 Undergraduate
and Postgraduate Programmes
August 2000 - May 2002
Research Assistant of Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), Taiwan
Participatory Group/ Institute of International Relations, Chengchi University, Taiwan
September 1999 - September 2000
Editor, China Post, Taiwan
July 1999 - September 1999
Internship in China Times, Taiwan
Education
2003 - 2008
PhD, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
Title of thesis: The Changing Interaction between Taiwanese Businesses and Chinese Government: 1987~2004
2002 - 2003
M.A. in International Studies: Asia Pacific Region, University of Nottingham
1996 - 2000
B.A. in Journalism and Communication, Department of Journalism and Communication
Studies,
Fu-Jen Catholic University (FJCU), Taiwan
Scholarships and Awards
September 2009 - September 2010
Writing Up Grant, the Modern East Asia Research Centre (MEARC), School of Asian Studies,
Leiden University, the Netherlands
March 2003 - 2006
PhD Research Scholarship, University of Nottingham
July 2004
Sir Stanley Tomlinson Memorial Postgraduate Scholarships, School of Politics and International
Relations, University of Nottingham
Memberships
Member of the Political Science Association
Member of the British Association for Chinese Studies
Member of the American Association for Chinese Studies
Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham
Associate research member of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) University of Tubingen, Germany
Conferences and Seminar Presentations
July 4 - 5 2009
‘The 30th Anniversary of China-U.S. Relations: China's Domestic Politics and International
Relations’ at Renmin University of China School of International Studies, Beijing, China
Title of Paper: ‘Has Foreign Investment Triggered/Enhanced an Emergence of Civil Society in
China?’
June 26 2009
‘Beyond the credit crunch: regional economic integration in East Asia’ at Modern East Asia Research Center (MEARC) at University of Leiden, the Netherlands
Title of paper: ‘The integration of Chinese Market into East Asian Economy’
June 22 - 23 2009
‘Labour Struggle in Asia and the Diaspora’ at University of Nottingham, UK
Title of Paper: ‘Corporative Trade Union in China’
June 11 - 12 2009
‘Developing Theoretical Approaches in Labour Geography’ at University of Liverpool, UK
Title of Paper: ‘The Silence of Chinese Labour’
April 16 - 18 2009
‘The Sixth European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) Conference’ at Autonomous University
of Madrid, Spain
Title of Paper: ‘Has Taiwanese Investment Triggered the Emergence of Civil Society in China?’
November 19 - 21 2008
‘International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies Inaugural Conference: Post-Olympic
China: Globalisation and Sustainable Development after Three Decades of Reform’ at School of
Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
Title of Paper: ‘Has A Civil Society Emerged from the Chinese Labour Movement?’
October 11 - 12 2008
‘Association of Chinese Politics Studies, International Symposium and the 21st ACPS Annual
Meeting’ at Missouri State University, USA
Title of Paper: ‘Assessment of the Impact of Foreign Investment in the Post-Hu Generation’
September 4 - 5 2008
‘British Association for Chinese Studies 2008 Annual Conference: China, Nature and Humanity’ at
University of Leeds, UK
Title of Paper: ‘Has Civil Society Arisen in China? Denotation from the Labour Movement in China’
March 11 2008
Seminar Talk: ‘When Private Capital Becomes a Security Asset: Chinese Government v.s. Taiwanese
Investors’ at China House Seminar Series, University of Nottingham
November 5 2007
Seminar Talk: ‘China’s Strategy under the Globalisation Era’ at National War College, National Defense University, Longtan, Taiwan
October 17 2007
Seminar Talk, ‘The Changing Interaction between Taiwanese Businessmen and Chinese
Government’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London
October 5 - 7 2007
‘American Association for Chinese Studies 49th Annual Conference’ at University of Richmond,
USA
Title of paper: ‘The Role of Taiwanese Business Associations (TBA) in the cross-Strait relationship’
September 6 - 7 2007
‘British Association of Chinese Studies’ at University of Manchester, UK
Title of paper: ‘Denotation the Rise of China and The Impact of Foreign Investment - The Case of Taiwanese Businessmen Association’
August 16 - 18 2007
‘The Inaugural International Conference of the UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland and The Irish Institute for Chinese Studies’ at University College Dublin, Ireland
Title of paper: ‘The Dynamic of Chinese Government / Business Relationship’
June 27 - 29 2007
‘The British Inter-University China Center (BICC) Launch Conference’ at University of Oxford, UK
Title of paper: ‘The Changing Dynamic of Government/Business Relationship—Special Case of Taiwanese Businessmen and Chinese Local Governments’
April 20 - 22 2007
‘The Fourth European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) Conference’ at Stockholm, University
of Sweden, Sweden
Title of Paper: ‘The Economic Spill-Over Effect: Taiwanese Businessmen as Political Assets of the
Chinese Government’
August 30 - September 1 2006
‘The Sixteenth European Association of Chinese Studies Conference’ at University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Title of Paper: ‘An Empirical Analysis of the cross-Strait Relationship’
April 4 - 6 2006
‘The Political Science Association 56th Annual Conference’ at University of Reading, U.K.
Title of Paper: ‘When Private Capital Becomes a Security Asset: Challenging Conventional Government / Business Interaction’
January 5 - 9 2006
‘The Second Annual Graduate Seminar on China, GSOC’ at Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title of Paper: ‘The Interaction Between Taiwanese Businesses and Chinese Local Government, 1987-2004: Three Case Studies’
September 15 - 16 2005
‘British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, ‘Nei and Wai in Chinese Culture’ at
University of Nottingham, U.K.
Title of Paper: ‘Shifting Boundaries: The Ambiguous Role of Taiwanese Business Who Invest in China’
October 23 - 25 2004
‘American Association for Chinese Studies 46th Annual Conference’ at College of William and
Mary, Virginia, U.S.A.
Title of paper: ‘Taiwanese Business and Chinese Government: 1987-2004’
Languages
Mandarin (mother tongue)
English (near native fluency)
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