Professor of Documentary and Film Archiving
Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA)

1. Education

1.1 Sep 1999 – Oct 2002, Ph.D. in Education, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
1.2 M.A. in Television and Film, UCLA
1.3 Diploma in Broadcasting & Television, World Journal College of Journalism

2. Academic and Professional Positions

2.1 Aug 2010 – Aug 2012: Dean, College of Audio-Visual Media, TNUA
2.2 Aug 2010 – Aug 2012: Director, Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving, TNUA
2.3 Feb 2009: Director, Audio-Visual Media Center, TNUA
2.4 Aug 2008 – Jan 2009: Director, Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving, TNUA
2.5 Dec 2004 – Jul 2008: Dean, College of Audio-Visual Media, TNUA
2.6 Aug 2003 – Jul 2004: Director, Doctoral Program, Graduate Institute of Arts Creation & Theory, TNUA
2.7 Jul 2003 – Jul 2004: Director, Graduate Institute of Arts Management, TNUA
2.8 Sep 1999 – Oct 2002: Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Education, UCLA
2.9 May 1997 – Sep 1999: Full-time Professor and Director, Documentary & Film Archiving Institute, Tainan National College of the Arts
2.10 Mar 1989 – May 1997: Director, National Film Archive

3. Areas of Expertise

3.1 Documentary production — producing, directing, cinematography
3.2 Film archive studies — promotion, restoration, preservation
3.3 Film administration and marketing — including festival organization

4. Teaching

4.1 Documentary Studies
4.2 Documentary Production
4.3 Creative Theory
4.4 Film Archive Studies
4.5 Cinematography

5. Research Projects

5.1 2011 – Music-Image Integration Curriculum: Image as Musical Application, Ministry of Education
5.2 2009 – Typhoon Morakot Documentary: The Voice of Reading in the Storm, Ministry of Education
5.3 2009 – Two MOE-funded projects on cultural heritage documentary production and film archive preservation
5.4 2007 – DV vs FILM: Study and Practice of the Materiality of Imaging Media, MOE
5.5 2007 – Preservation and digitization of Taiwanese colonial-era films, National Museum of Taiwan History
5.6 2006 – Publication based on colonial-era film collections, NMTH
5.7 2006 – Green Collective Archive Restoration (1986–1997), NTDNU

6. Publications and Articles

6.1 Dec 2009 – “The Necessity of Documentary” (foreword), Interviews with Filmmakers: Love, Hate, Sorrow and Joy
6.2 Oct 2007 – “Several Misconceptions in Current Documentary Discussions,” Art Perspectives, No. 32
6.3 2006 – “Colonial Objects & Imperial Memory: On Memory Politics through the Restored Film Nan-Jin Taiwan,” Taiwan Revealed Through Film Frames
6.4 2004 – “Analysis of Colonial Context in The Bell of Shayang,” National Archives Seminar Volume
6.5 2003 – “Cultural Imagination in Animation: From the Perspective of Critical Pedagogy,” New Media·New Art

7. Books and Editions

7.1 2007 – Taiwan Revealed Through Film Frames (NMTH publication on colonial-era preservation)
7.2 1998 – Interview by L.-F. Chen: “From Taiwanese-language Film Archive to Documentary Classroom,” Panorama Mapping, Vol. 6

8. Awards

8.1 1982 – Modern Man, Golden Harvest Award, Best 8 mm Documentary
8.2 1983 – Master of Puppet Theater Wang Yan, Golden Harvest Award, Excellence in 16 mm
8.3 1985 – Documentary invited to Hawaii International Film Festival and New York Asian American Film Festival
8.4 2014 – Taipei Film Festival, Award for Outstanding Contribution

9. Public Service and Lectures

9.1 Sep 9, 2011 – Taiwan Community Media Conference: Professionalism in Image Education: Documentary and RCA Labor Movement
9.2 Jun 22, 2010 – Zhou Chuan-ji Film-Education Forum: Metamorphosis: Documentary Education at TNUA
9.3 May 26, 2010 – Tzu Chi University Forum: The Importance of Community Media Construction
9.4 Mar 6, 2003 – General Education Lecture, TNUA: Media Publicness and Community Practice
9.5 Dec 26, 2002 – General Education Lecture, TNUA: The Past and Present of Documentary Film

10. Achievements and Contributions

10.1 1993 – Organizer, World Cinema Archival Film Exhibition
10.2 Founder of the National Film Archive, pioneering film heritage preservation in Taiwan
10.3 Led Taiwan’s National Film Archive into membership with FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives)