Wan-Chun Huang

Wan-Chun Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Studies and a Doctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, New York University. Her research focuses on Chinese media, audience engagement, and political communication. Her dissertation, Decentralizing China’s Televisual Media Ecologies, explores how television audiences in China resist centralized control through participatory practices. She traces the evolution of television genres from the 1960s to the present—including educational programming, reality TV, and queer animation—through the framework of sociopolitical media ecologies.

Her published work includes a peer-reviewed article on democratic behaviors in Chinese reality television and a critical review of censorship and media control, featured in Asiascape: Digital Asia and the PRC History Review. As a dedicated educator, she has taught courses on East Asian media, media ecologies, and Chinese literature and language. She also actively contributes to academic communities through conference organization, curriculum development, and mentorship.

Doctoral Candidate, New York University

M.A., University of Pittsburgh

Book review of Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, by Thomas Chen. PRC History Review 70, no 9. (August 2024): 1-3.

“The Voice of a New China: Democratic Behaviours in China’s Reality Shows Super Girl and Happy Girls.” Asiascape: Digital Asia (5) 2018: 225-253.