Our People

Credentials

PhD, McGill University (Faculty of Religious Studies)

MA, University of Waterloo (Department of Philosophy)

BA, University of Calgary (Double Major: Philosophy/Eastern Religions)

Research Interests

• Buddhist Philosophy, Consciousness, and AI
• Free will and personhood in Indian Buddhism
• Buddhist Ethics
• Buddhism and Theatre
• Buddhism and Climate Activism
• Mystical Experience and Epistemology
• Buddhist Meditation Theory and Practice

Biography

My work is centered on Indian Buddhism and Buddhist Ethics, with more general interests in other south Asian religious traditions and western Philosophy. I received my PhD from McGill University in 2003, having spent extended stays at institutions in India, Nepal, and Switzerland. My teaching duties lie principally within the Religion, Culture, and Society Program, with many courses cross-listed to Pacific and Asian Studies.

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

• Buddhism and the Future - Transhumanism and Posthumanism. Eds. Martin T. Adam and Michael Berman. Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies (Vol. 18, 2023).
• Indian Buddhist Metaethics: Panel Proceedings from the Meeting of the IABS, Atlanta, 2008. Ed. Martin T. Adam. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2010. (2011) Vol: 33.

Articles, Book Chapters, and Creative Works

• What the Buddha Never Taught: A Rock Opera. Producer. Director: Chris Humphreys. Musical Director: Scott White. Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver, B.C., June 30-July10, 2022.
• "Meditation Dilemma: Portrait of a free choice." Pariyatti Journal, 2021.
• What the Buddha Never Taught: A Rock Opera. Composer, Libretto and music. Arrangements: Marc Atkinson. Album released online, 2021 (Spotify, Apple Music).
• "Moral Development in the Jātakas, Avadānas, and Pāli Nikāyas" in The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics. Cozort, Dan and James Mark Sheilds, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 77-95.
• “Degrees of Freedom: The Buddha’s Implied Views on the (Im)possibility of Free Will” in Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency?, ed. R. Repetti. New York: Routledge, 2016, 123-132.
• "Philosophy, Meditation and Experience in the Great Debate at Bsam yas" in The Bsam yas Debate: Challenges and Responses. Panel Proceedings from the Meeting of the IABS, Vienna, 2014. Ed. David Higgins. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 39, special volume,
• "The Consequences of Consequentialism: Reflections on Recent Developments in the Study of Buddhist Ethics." In Wading into the Stream of Wisdom:  Essays Honoring Leslie Kawamura. Edited by Sarah Haynes and Michelle J. Sorensen. Berkeley: Institute of Buddhist Studies (2014).
• "Buddhism, Equality, Rights." Journal of Buddhist Ethics (2013) Special 20th Anniversary edition Vol. 20: 421-443.
• "No Self, No Free Will, No Problem: Implications of the Anattalakkhana Sutta for a Perennial Philosophical Issue,” in Indian Buddhist Metaethics: Panel Proceedings from the Meeting of the IABS, Atlanta, 2008.  Ed. Martin T. Adam. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2010. (2011) 33: 239-265.
• “Classes of Agent and the Moral logic of the Pali Canon” Argumentation: Special Volume: Buddhist Logic and Argumentation, Springer (2008) 22: 115-124.
• “Buddhist Perspectives on Terrorism” (with W. Codling) in Religion, Terror and Violence: Religious Studies Perspectives, Rennie, Bryan and Philip T. Tite eds, New York: Routledge, 2008. 177-194.
• “Some Notes on Kamalasila’s Understanding of Insight Considered as the Discernment of Reality (bhuta-pratyaveksa).” Buddhist Studies Review (2008) Vol. 25 (2): 192-207.
• “Two Concepts of Meditation and Three Kinds of Wisdom in Kamalasila’s Bhavanakramas: A Problem of Translation.” Buddhist Studies Review (2006) Vol. 23.1: 71-92.
• “Nonviolence and Emptiness: Buddha, Gandhi, and the ‘Essence of Religion’.” ARC (2006), Vol. 34:  225-238. 
• "Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals: A new analysis of puñña and kusala, in light of sukka". Journal of Buddhist Ethics (2005) Vol. 11: 62-85. 
• "The Problem of Prejudice: Some Notes on Philosophical Hermeneutics for Broad-Visioned Buddhologists." Journal of Contemporary Buddhism (2002) Vol. 3/1: 31-49.
• "A Post-Kantian Perspective on Recent Debates about Mystical Experience." Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2002) Vol. 70/4: 801-817.
• "Dignāga and The Evolution of the Particular in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition." ARC (2001) Vol. 29: 5-21.

Forthcoming

• What the Buddha Never Taught: A Rock Opera. 92-page stage-play manuscript completed 2022. Submitted for review.
• "Artistic and Ethical Considerations Arising in Writing a Buddhist Musical" in Buddhism, Creativity, and Art. Panel Proceedings from the 2023 meeting held at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. Kathmandu: LIRI Publishing.
• "Buddhist Theories of Mind and Artificial Consciousness" (with Charles Goodman, Jenny Hung and Francesco Tormen). In Buddhist Perspectives on Consciousness, Evolution, and AI. Italian Buddhist Union Research Centre, 2024
• "Buddhist Ethical Considerations on Machine Intelligence, Virtue, and Character" (with Charles Goodman and James Hughes). In Buddhist Perspectives on Consciousness, Evolution, and AI. IBU Research Centre, 2024

Selected Courses

RCS 200B/ PAAS 204 Introduction to Asian Religions

RCS 305:  Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult

RCS 307: Religion and The Environment

RCS 311 / PAAS 311 Gandhi and the Ethics of Non-violence

RCS 363 / PAAS 363 Buddhism

RCS 401:  Selected Topics: Buddhist Meditation; Death and the Afterlife; Buddhist Ethics; Indian Philosophy and Religion

RCS 490/ PAAS 493:  Reading Seminar in Buddhism: Dīgha Nikāya; Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamikakārikā.

Credentials

PhD, University of California, San Diego

MA, New York University

BA, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

• Transnational Chinese literature and film, new media, science fiction

Biography

Angie Chau is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Film at the University of Victoria. She has published articles on modern Chinese literature, art, film and internet culture, and her research interests include contemporary Chinese literature, popular culture, visual art, and translation. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), Concentric, and Chinese Literature Today, and various edited volumes. Prior to joining the University of Victoria, she taught courses in modern Chinese literature and film at NYU Shanghai, Arizona State University and UC San Diego.

Publications

Book

• Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters (University of Michigan Press, 2023).

Peer-reviewed journal

• Co-authored with Qian Liu, “Complicating images of the modern Chinese woman, from only child to 'leftover woman',” Feminist Media Studies (2023). doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2263658.
• “Smoothing Over Sex in Modern Chinese Literature: Translation and the #MeToo Movement,” Concentric, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Sep., 2019): 55-82.
• "From Nobel to Hugo: Reading Chinese Science Fiction as World Literature," Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 30, No. 1 (Spring, 2018): 110–135.
• “‘An Archivist’s Fantasy Gone Mad’: The Age of Exhibition in Cao Fei’s Posthuman Trilogy,” Concentric 43, No. 2 (Sep., 2017): 221–247.
• “Defining the Modern 'Wenren' and the Role of the White Female Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Art,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 29, No. 1 (Spring, 2017): 1–54.
• “A Public Intellectual in the Internet Age: Han Han’s Everyman Appeal,” Chinese Literature Today, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Aug., 2015): 73–81.

Chapters in books

• “Beyond Cyborg Prostitutes: Fantasies of Womanhood, Translated SF, and Soft Power” (Forthcoming in Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in China, Routledge 2024).
• “Paris and the Art of Transposition, 1920s-1940s” in Yingjin Zhang, ed. A World History of Chinese Literature (Routledge, 2023): 49-61.
• “At Home in the Metropolis: Reimagining Beijing and Shanghai in the 21st Century” in Brendan Kredell, Germaine B. Halegoua, and Erica Stein, eds., The Routledge Companion to Media and the City (Routledge, 2022): 217-225.
• “Imagining a New World in Michelle Kuen Suet Fung’s Polluta” in Polluta: Floating Artist Colony in the Sky, Works by Michelle Kuen Suet Fung (Green Production Group, exhibition catalogue, 2018): 46-49.
• “From Root-Searching to Grassroots: Returning to the Countryside in Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Independent Documentary Film” in Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang, eds., Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016): 53–67.
• “Fashion Sucks…Blood: Clothes and Covens in Twilight and Hollywood Culture” in Giselle Liza Anatol, ed., Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011): 179–189.

Translations

• Tao Dongfeng 陶東風, “Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to Anti-Elitization” [中國新時期文學三十年掃描：從精英化到去精英化], in Yingjin Zhang, ed., A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015): 98–115.

Encyclopedia entries

• “Literature, Post-1990, China” and “Yu Hua, China” in Kathleen Nadeau, ed., Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania (ABC-CLIO, 2016): 78–81 and 123–126.

Courses

• PAAS 209 Gender and Marriage in Chinese Popular Media
• PAAS 302/501 Literary and Cultural Theory in Pacific and Asian Languages
• PAAS 355 Modern Chinese Literature and Society, 1900-1949
• PAAS 356 The Literature of the People’s Republic of China – 1949 to the Present
• PAAS 357 Chinese Cinema from Text to Screen
• PAAS 358 Screening the Nation: Nationalism, Ideology and Politics in Chinese Cinema
• PAAS 456 Chinese Literature as World Literature
• PAAS 496 Directed Readings: Wang Anyi and Eileen Chang
• PAAS 590 Directed Readings [Graduate level]: Cultural Revolution Memoirs; Chinese-language Documentary Film; Healing Literature

Credentials

PhD, University of Toronto

Research Interests

• Cinema: Asian and Japanese, live-action and animated
• Japanese literature, modern and pre-modern
• Humanism and Identity Issues in Japan
• Japanese religions and philosophy
• Technology and its implications; science fiction cinema
• Horror as a response to social and urban change
• Popular culture: traditional, modern, postmodern

Background Information

Timothy Iles has both a BA (completed very, very slowly) and an MA (completed at a moderate rate) from the University of British Columbia, where he focussed on the Japanese language and modern Japanese literature, writing his thesis on Akutagawa Ryūnosuke. He holds a PhD (completed very, very quickly) from the University of Toronto, writing his dissertation on the avant-garde novelist, Abe Kōbō. He later published his dissertation as Abe Kōbō: An Exploration of his Prose, Drama, and Theatre (Fucheccio: European Press Academic Publishers, 2000).

He has taught Japanese literature (modern and premodern), culture (modern and premodern), theatre, cinema, and language (modern and classical) in both Canada and the United States, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Teaching is his forté and something for which he feels a tremendous responsibility in his role as guide for his many and diverse students. His teaching interests are firmly grounded in the traditions of the Humanities—the historical contextualisation of ideas and their textual expression.

His research interests are in narrative. This term accommodates many forms and intricacies. Of especial concern are the process and mechanism of narration in the medium of cinema—and the associated thematic issues which narrative presents. Timothy Iles has published numerous books and analytical articles on various thematic problems in film, both Japanese and Asian. He is also General Editor of the online electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, where he publishes film and book reviews, as well as other essays.

Selected publications
	Researching 21st Century Japan: New Directions and Approaches for the Digital Age (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012), co-edited with Peter Matanle.
	Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film: Personal, Cultural, National (Leiden: Brill, 2008).

Undergraduate Courses

PAAS 101:  Text, Manipulation, Propaganda

Introducing the process of narrative analysis, covering the written word, film, and theatre from different genres, eras, and countries in Asia such as, for example: Japanese novels, manga, and anime, Chinese short fiction, Taiwanese film, premodern poetry, and so on. We will explore the components of texts and how they form internal relations to create a unified structure. Rather than exploring what texts mean, we will consider how they mean. Standing on the firm ground of praxis, the opposite pole of theory: useful, by definition practical, and focussed on the validity of close reading. We will explore the differences between analysis and interpretation; the role of context (historical, biographical, and in terms of style); the function of language (either the written word or the visual, gestural languages of film and theatre); and the process of moving from reading a text to writing about it critically and persuasively. This course will provide a vital foundation for students of narrative (conceived of as any text which conveys a meaning through the telling of a story) and will prepare them for further study in literature, theatre, or film in both Asian Studies as well as in other departments. First and foremost, this course intends to demonstrate the overwhelming validity and importance of the study of literature/narrative at a time when it is under attack on multiple fronts. Don’t hide your love of literature! Defend it, show it, wear it as a badge of honour!

PAAS 180: Premodern Japanese Culture

Introducing the cultural history of Japan from the earliest periods of habitation of the Japanese islands (25,000 BCE) up to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. This course focusses on the various waves of migration into Japan of the peoples of mainland Asia, the spiritual beliefs of the Ainu and the Japanese, the establishment of hierarchical society, the development of writing and literary expressions, Buddhism, Shinto, theatrical entertainments of the court nobility, the influence of Zen as a form of practice in Japanese arts, visual art, and the transition to a merchant, popular culture during the Tokugawa Era (1603-1868). While historically grounded this is not a history course—our concern is with the development of premodern Japanese ways of life and self-expression, and the ways in which this sets the stage for the emergence of modern Japan. This course is a general introduction to premodern Japan, intended to spark students’ interest in the enormous range of fascinating avenues of study available to them in the Humanities in this area. [view Outline]

PAAS 181: Modern Japanese Culture

A focussed look at the emergence of modern Japan during the Meiji Era (1868-1911) and the various transitions which have occurred since then till the present. Our particular emphasis is on Japanese reactions to its encounters with ‘the West’ in the late 19th Century—reactions which still continue. We will explore the transition Japan underwent from a closed, agrarian country to an open, industrialised one, and the resultant explosion in urbanisation, internationalisation, and colonialism in the years up to 1945. We will also focus on more contemporary representations of the Japanese family, environmental and consumer issues, language, and identity through literature, theatre, and cinema (live-action as well as animated). As with PAAS 180, this course is intended as a general introduction to modern Japan, to give students an awareness of the enormous range of aspects of study available to them in the Humanities in this area. [ view Outline ]

PAAS 386: Premodern Japanese Literature in Translation

This course introduces the premodern Japanese literary tradition, beginning with the earliest poetic, novelistic, and diary texts from the Heian era (794-1185), includng the Tale of Genji and the Pillowbook of Sei Shônagon, moving to Noh texts from the 14th Century, the Hôjôki and other works of Buddhist monks, on to popular dramas from the Kabuki and Bunraku traditions of the 1600s and 1700s, and haiku and popular fiction from the urban, merchant class of the Tokugawa Era. Specific issues include the function of Buddhism as an informing principle of the literary aesthetic; Shinto and animism as sources of inspiration; the function of Nature as a vehicle for the metaphoric expression of human emotion; the creation of characters and methods of narration in drama; literary and historical allusion/intertextuality; and nascent postmodernity in narrative features from the 18th Century. Knowledge of premodern Japan is helpful though not required. [ view Outline ]

PAAS 388: Modern Japanese Literature in Translation

Beginning with Japan’s encounters of the ‘West’ in the late 19th Century, her literature underwent a series of rapfd readjustments and several successive periods of experimentation, growth, and change. This course looks—both chronologically and thematically—at the challenges and opportunities Japanese authors faced as a result of their exposure to new avenues in language, form, style, and content in non-Japanese literature. We explore ways in which Japanese writers reacted to ‘interiority’, the emphasis on psychological realism prevalent in non-Japanese literature but often missing in previous forms of traditional writing; social activism; changes in the relationship to and function of nature; the creation of a ‘narrator’ as distinct from ‘the author’ even in autobiographical writing; themes of alienation and isolation; increasingly international considerations of the place of Japan in world literature; the fantastic and grotesque as comments on Japan’s evolving urban world; and changing conceptions/expressions of the self, responsibility, and community. This course focusses on close reading and literary analysis of thematic and stylistic content rather than the arbitrary imposition of theory onto the texts—from analysis and contextualisation we move towards interpretation of the implications of the text, mindful of the ways in which the texts themselves validate particular readings through the specific, literary features. Knowledge of contemporary Japan is helpful though not required. [ view Outline ]

PAAS 393: Humanism in Japanese Cinema to 1960

This course introduces the functioning of Humanism as an informing philosophical principle of Japanese cinema up to the late 1960s. We will examine the ways in which ideological threads manifest themselves in representative (though highly selective) works by such directors as Mizoguchi Kenji, Kurosawa Akira, and Oshima Nagisa. The main issue we will consider is how the essential ideals of Humanism (the emphatic validity and fundamental importance of the individual as the starting point for the discourses and processes of choice which determine the contours of life, both social private) shape the plots of the films we will see as undeniable moral examples. We will follow broad patterns in the development of the understanding of this term held by Japanese directors, and focus on such specific issues as existential choice, the ideal role of government as a protector of the weak, the place of the ‘outsider’ in society, and the presentation of religion in a properly and basically atheistic ideology. Knowledge of contemporary Japan is helpful though not required. [ view Outline ]

PAAS 484: Identity in Animated Japanese Cinema

How do animated films such as Metropolis, Perfect Blue, Paprika, Ghost in the Shell, and others conceive of and argue for a specific function of "identity"? How do gender, tradition, spirituality, and technology interact to form a powerful arena for social criticism? This course presents profound, moving works of art in a supportive, open environment, where students can discover the range of meanings art can hold, and where they can explore "identity" not only in art but in their own lives. [view Outline]

PAAS 487: Trends in Japanese Cinema, 1960 to Present

Topics in cinema such as: feminism/resistance to feminism, race and power, technology and its implications, tradition/history in a changing world; the role/function of cinema as social critique. Focusing on cinematic texts, this is emphatically not a ‘social issues/social theory’ course: it is a film class examining thematic issues as they appear in film. Our questions are both "What/why do these films mean?" and "How do they mean?" We will not use these films to "prove" something about modern Japan—that is not a proper approach. We cannot use something fictional to prove the real world, after all! Instead we will situate these films in their contexts to use the conditions of modern Japan to help us understand the films themselves. We will incorporate both live-action as well as animated films, from a wide range of genres. Knowledge of contemporary Japan is helpful though not required. [ view Outline ]

PAAS 521: Special Topics in Asian Languages, Literatures, Linguistics

This course gives graduate students practical, meaningful, guided instruction in advanced textual analysis, specifically focussed on their individual projects. Techniques include foundational and advanced principles of close reading, contextualisation, the process of transition from analysis to interpretation, the proper, limited role of theory in its appropriate place, and the presentation/justification of the results of analysis in both seminar and written form. First and foremost is training in analytical methods suitable to each Humanities student’s project and research material—of necessity, therefore, the content of the course varies considerably from year to year, in response to the specific needs of each student. This course emphatically rejects the notion that "one size fits all, one approach/theory suits all texts, and one research method suits all approaches." Instead, we understand that from the texts themselves in conjunction with the background, interests, and goals of the student grow the approach, method, and project. Based on the philosophy that students, as adults interested in and responsible for their own education, are capable of close cooperation with their instructors, students actively participate in the yearly recreation of this course.

PAAS 590: Directed Readings

Designed to prepare the student for the writing of the MA thesis, focussing on clarifying suitable material, approach, and thesis design relevant to individual goals and needs. This course typically results in the production of a draft of at least one chapter of the thesis.

Credentials

MA, University of Victoria

Research Interests

• Teaching Japanese as a second language; second language acquisition
• Computer-assisted language learning

Biography

Before joining the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies as a Japanese Language Instructor in 1997, I had worked as a TA for these language courses for a number of years. In 2005, I became a Senior Instructor in the Japanese language program. Currently my academic interests are: Second Language Acquisition, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, and implementation of online courses. I love teaching and interacting with my students, as well as designing new challenges. I also enjoy watching Japanese dramas!!

Teaching

Since 1997 I have taught different levels of Japanese language courses. These include introductory, intermediate and advanced courses (PAAS 130, PAAS 131, PAAS 230, PAAS 330, and PAAS 497. I am planning to teach other courses including PAAS 235 and advanced level courses, and I'm looking forward to these very much.

Besides teaching, I work as the coordinator for the Summer Japanese Language Program. Currently we have two programs for summer; one is at Konan University in Kobe and the other is at Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto. I have had very positive feedback from students who have participated in these programs and I am very proud to introduce these opportunities to students who want to improve their Japanese language ability.

Courses

PAAS 130:  Introductory Japanese I
PAAS 131:  Introductory Japanese II
PAAS 230:  Intermediate Japanese I
PAAS 330:  Intermediate Japanese II
PAAS 497:  Special Topics: Academic Japanese

Credentials

Research Interests

• Population discourses in the Japanese Empire
• Politics of reproduction in Modern East Asia
• Biopolitics and feminist theories on body politics

Biography

Sujin Lee is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese History at the University of Victoria. Lee completed her PhD in History from Cornell University in 2017 and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies in 2017–18. She is an author of articles on the birth control movement in Interwar Japan and book: Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 2023). Her research interests encompass the history of the Japanese colonial empire, biopolitical governance of bodies and its gender impacts, and historical narratives of women's reproductive experiences.

Selected Publications

Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan, Stanford University Press, 2023.

“South Korea: Democracy, Innovation, and Surveillance” (Co-authored) Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts; Edited by Victor V. Ramraj. Oxford: Oxford University Press USA (2020): pp. 239-50.

“Differing Conceptions of “Voluntary Motherhood”: Yamakawa Kikue’s Birth Strike and Ishimoto Shizue’s Eugenic Feminism”, The U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal 52, 2018, pp. 3-22.

“Technologies of the Population Problem: The Neo-Malthusian Birth Control Movement in Interwar Japan”, The Annual Review of Cultural Studies 5, 2017, pp. 37-58. 

Courses

Credentials

PhD, University of British Columbia

Research interests

• Urbanization & regional development in China & Asia
• Contemporary Chinese society
• Culture and creativity in China
• Chinese education

Biography

Dr. Andrew Marton specializes in contemporary Chinese studies. His research revolves around the study of patterns and processes of spatial economic transformation in China’s mega-urban regions, with a particular focus on the lower Yangzi delta. Other research interests in China include studies of administrative restructuring, hybrid spaces of production and consumption in the countryside, internationalization of education, and the emergence of new urban spaces for the visual arts and other creative industries in Shanghai, Beijing and Ningbo. Dr. Marton is also undertaking research examining the doctrine of the unequal treaties and China’s approach to international law.

Selected publications
	McGee, T. G., Lin, G. C.S., Marton, A. M., Wang, M. Y. L. & Wu, J. P. (2007) China’s urban space: Development under market socialism. London and New York: Routledge.
	Marton, A. M. (2000) China’s spatial economic development: Restless landscapes in the lower Yangzi delta. London and New York: Routledge.

Selected articles and book chapters

• A. M. Marton (2000) Rural industrialization in China’s lower Yangzi delta: Institutionalizing transactional networks. GeoJournal 49 (3), pp. 245-255. PDF
• A. M. Marton (2002) Local geographies of globalisation: Rural agglomeration in the Chinese countryside. Asia Pacific viewpoint 43 (1), pp. 23-42. PDF
• A. M. Marton (2006) The cultural politics of curricular reform in China: A case study of geographical education in Shanghai. Journal of contemporary China, 15 (47), pp. 233-254. PDF
• A. M. Marton (2006) Spaces of globalisation: Institutional reforms and spatial economic development in the Pudong New Area, Shanghai. Habitat international, 30 (2), pp. 213-229 (with Wu, W.). PDF
• A. M. Marton (2008) Globalisation, spatial reorganisation and the urban echo in China’s Yangzi delta. Economic geography 28 (6), pp. 999-1003, 1011 (in Chinese). PDF
• A. M. Marton (2013) Northeast Asian economic cooperation and the Tumen River Area Development Project. In Hoare, J. E. (Ed.) Critical readings on North and South Korea – Volume Two. Leiden: Brill, pp. 439-466 (with McGee, T. G. & Paterson, D. G.). PDF
• A. M. Marton (2014) Cities, towns and rural industrialization: Revisiting the Chinese development debate. Proceedings of the West East Institute – Humanities and social sciences 2014, pp.32-44. PDF
• A. M. Marton (2017) Mega-urbanization in China: Rural-urban synthesis as a foundation for sustainability. The global studies journal 10 (2), pp. 1-19 (with McGee, T. G.). PDF

Courses

PAAS 151: Modern Chinese Culture (Outline)

PAAS 200: Introduction to Theories and Methods in Pacific and Asian Studies (Outline)

PAAS 351: Contemporary Chinese Society (Outline)

PAAS 451: Asian Mega-Cities and Urban Regions (Outline)

PAAS 520: Special Topics in Pacific Studies

PAAS 680: Directed Studies – Contemporary Chinese Development and Transformation

Credentials

PhD, University of Victoria

Research Interests

• Second language acquisition
• Classroom-based research
• Second language writing
• Teaching English as a second language
• Teaching Chinese as a second language
• Chinese linguistics

Biography

Jun Tian received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation was on the effects of peer editing and co-writing on second language writing, and won a dissertation award from “Language Learning”. Her graduate work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a Chinese Government Award, and several UVic Fellowships.

Jun’s research interests are in the areas of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, classroom-based research, second language writing, and Chinese linguistics. She teaches both Chinese language and Chinese linguistics courses in the department.

Before joining the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, Jun taught at Xi’an University of Technology, York University, George Brown College, and the Department of Linguistics at UVic. She has brought with her many years of teaching and curriculum development experience at the university level in Canada and in China.

Selected Publications

Articles

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (to appear). Social Constructivism. In Zeraatpishe, M. & Faravani, A. (Eds.). Issues in Applying SLA Theories toward Creative Teaching.

Nassaji, H. & Tian, J. (2014). Coproduction of language forms and its effects on L2 learning. In Benati, A. Laval, C. & Arche, M. J. (Eds.). The Grammar Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning. London & New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Nassaji, H. & Tian, J. (2014). The role of language co-production in learning English vocabulary. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 143, 794-798. Open Access.

Tian, J. & Tang, K. (2014). Does the future come from behind? Teaching and Learning of the expressed metaphors of time in Chinese language. Selected Papers of the 2nd International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research. Taiwan: National Taiwan Normal University.

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (2013). Verbal Interaction in L2 Writers’ Peer Editing Activities: A meta-synthesis of selected literature. In Baleghizadeh, S. (Ed.).  Handbook of Current Research in Teaching Second Language Skills. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University Press.

Tang, K. & Tian, J. (2013). “Hao rizi zai houtou” vs. “Hao rizi zai qiantou”: An Issue on Teaching Time-related Expressions to Chinese L2 Learners. Proceedings of Canadian Teaching-Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Symposium.

Tian, J. (2013). Character Learning and Sentence Building through Class Activities. Proceedings of Canadian Teaching-Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Symposium.

Nassaji, H. & Tian, J. (2013). Co-production of Language Forms and the Learning of English Vocabulary. Proceedings of the 5th World Conference on Educational Sciences.

Tian, J. (2012). Strategies to enhance Chinese learners’ writing skills. Canadian Teaching Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Journal, 3

Nassaji, H. & Tian, J. (2010). Collaborative and Individual Output Tasks and Their Effects on Learning English Phrasal Verbs. Language Teaching Research, 14, 397-419. 


Tian, J. (2010). Writing Practice of Beginner Chinese-as-a-foreign-language Learners , Canadian Teaching Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Journal, 2, 123-128. 



Tang, K. & Tian, J. (2010). Culture Comparison in the First Year Chinese-as-a-foreign Language Class. Selected Papers of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching (pp. 615-620). Beijing, China: Higher Education Press. 



Tian, J. (2009). An Optimality Theory Analysis of Diminutive Suffixation of Beijing Chinese, Working Papers in Linguistics, University of Victoria. 



Tian, J. (2007). Categorical status of the BA construction. In Carter, Nicole, Hadic Zabala, Loreley Marie, Rimrott, Anne, & Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan (Eds.). Proceedings of the 22nd Northwest Linguistics Conference, 14 pages.

Selected Conference Presentations

Tian, J. (2016). Task-based Learning in Chinese L2 Classes. Canadian Teaching-Chinese-as-a-Second- Language Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (2016). Collaborative Writing Approaches in Practice: Effects of Peer Review and Co-writing on Chinese L2 Performance. American Association for Applied Linguistics 2016 Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Tian, J. (2015). What can students do together? Writing Stories in Chinese with a Partner. American Council on The Teaching of Foreign Languages 2015 Convention and World Languages Expo, San Diego, California.

Tian, J. (2015). Integrated insights on “Integrated Chinese”. Canadian Teaching-Chinese-as-a-Second- Language Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tang, K. & Tian, J. (2013). “Hao rizi zai houtou” vs. “Hao rizi zai qiantou”: An Issue on Teaching Time-related Expressions to Chinese L2 Learners. Canadian Teaching-Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Nassaji, H. & Tian, J. (2013). The Role of Language Co-production in Learning English Vocabulary. The 5th World Conference on Educational Sciences, Rome, Italy.

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (2013). Learner-learner Interactions in Two Collaborative Writing Activities. Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics. Victoria, British Columbia.

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (2013). Learning English phrasal verbs through collaborative output tasks. The 44th Annual Conference of BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language. Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2013). Character Learning and Sentence Building through Class Activities. Canadian Teaching-Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2013). Fostering Chinese Learning through Collaborative Writing Activities. Chinese Language Education Forum, San Francisco, California.

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (2012). Nature of Student Interactions in Peer Review and Co-writing. The 31st Annual Second Language Research Forum. Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Tian, J. (2012). Strategies to Enhance Chinese Learners’ Writing Skills. The International Teaching-Chinese-as­-a-Second-Language Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2012). Investigation of UVic Chinese Program: Implications for Curriculum Design. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Series, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2012). Peer Review and Co-writing: Writing Quality, Interaction Content, and Students’ Perceptions. Linguistics Department Research Forum, University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Tang, K. & Tian, J. (2012). Does the Future Come from Behind? Teaching and Learning of the Expressed Metaphors of time in Chinese Language. 2nd International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Tian, J. (2011). Knowing and Understanding Chinese Language Learners. Canadian Teaching-Chinese-as¬a-Second-Language Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2010). Is one writing approach better than the others? Learners’ preferences. Annual Conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics. Atlanta, Georgia.

Tian, J. (2010). Cross-cultural Communications in the Master Program of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. The 3rd International Symposium for Young Scholars on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning. Peking University, Beijing, China.

Tian, J. (2010). Writing Practice of Beginner Chinese-as-a-foreign-language Learners. Canada Teaching¬Chinese-as-a-Second Language Symposium. Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2010). Chinese L2 Learners’ Interests in Chinese Narrative Writing. BC China Scholar Symposium. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2009). Interactions in Peer Feedback Activities. The 41st Annual Conference of BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language. Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2009). Analysis of teaching approaches in Chinese-as-a-second Language Writing. Canada Teaching-Chinese-as-a-Second Language Symposium. BCIT, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (2009). The Effects of Collaborative and Individual Output Tasks. The 41st Annual Conference of BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language. Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. (2008). Chinese Language Learners’ Preferences in Their Writing Practice. The 9th International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching. Beijing, China, 2008.

Tian, J. & Nassaji, H. (2008). Would you like to work with your peers? Student perceptions of collaborative versus individual work”. Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tian, J. & Lin, H. (2008). Syllabification of Chinese geographic loanwords phonology and Optimality Theory. The 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2008.

Tang, K. & Tian, J. (2008). Teaching Chinese Using Culture Comparison in the First Year Chinese-as-a-foreign Language Class. The 9th International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching. Beijing, China.

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