Author: Chen-Ju Chen
Publisher: Nashwa
Publication Date: Jan 01, 2010
ISBN: 1867-9587
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15693-9
Country: United States
Language: English
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Often romanized as Chen Yu-Ju, this author—sometimes written as Chen-Ju Chen—hails from an artistic family and began writing children's books in her forties. Her debut, Cultivation, was an immediate success, earning her a popularity that has led to comparisons with J.K. Rowling in Taiwan .
She uses East Asian cultural elements to shape her fantasy worlds and currently resides in Los Angeles .
Awards include: Taiwan Literature Award; Golden Tripod Award; Openbook Award; Taipei Book Fair Award; China Times Open Book Award; Bologna Ragazzi Award; Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award; China Times Literary Award; International Manga Award; King Car Fantasy Fiction Prize; Fantasy, Mystery and Comics awards; Wu San-Lien Award; Macmillan Prize; Hsin-Yi Children’s Literature Award; Mirror Weekly Book of the Year; Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award .
A Research Fellow (Honorary) and lecturer formerly at the Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She joined as an adjunct assistant professor in August 2009 and became a lecturer in 2010 (arts.cuhk.edu.hk).
Educational background: Ph.D. in Anthropology, Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, and M.A. in Anthropology—all from Rutgers University; B.S. in Psychology from National Taiwan University (arts.cuhk.edu.hk).
Her dissertation, Capital Dreams: Global Consumption, Urban Imagination, and Labor Migration in Late Socialist Beijing, explores social differentiation in Beijing amid globalization and state transformations (arts.cuhk.edu.hk).
Ongoing research includes:
Migrant workers (Mingong) in China and their housing aspirations.
Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong and their engagement with beauty pageants as expressions of identity.
Independent music event organizers and performers in Taiwan and Hong Kong, studied through economic anthropology and aspirations (arts.cuhk.edu.hk).
Teaching areas span gender, anthropological field methods, China studies, political economy, visual anthropology, and the anthropology of senses (arts.cuhk.edu.hk).
Awards include:
Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award (2011, CUHK)
Fellowships and grants from Academia Sinica, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and NSF (arts.cuhk.edu.hk).
Listed on Academia.edu with interests in Arctic geopolitics, Polar Studies, and broader geopolitical analyses (Academia.edu).
Specific biographical details (institutional affiliation, education, nationality) weren’t available in the limited profile.
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