Asst. Prof. Dr. Ting-Yu Wang

王廷宇 助理教授

The Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of Museum Studies at Fu Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan.


Phone: +886 (2) 2905-2495 E-Mail: wangtingyu@me.com Appointments: upon request

Fields of Research

Ethnic Group and Cultural Display, Himalaya and Southwest China Study, Kinship, Social Relation and House Societies, Material Culture

Courses

  1. Museum, Ethnic Group and Cultural Display
  2. Museum and Material Culture Studies
  3. Museum Research Method
  4. Museum Education
  5. Thesis Writing (MA Program of Textiles and Clothing Department)
  6. Kinship and Social Structure (Sociology Department)


Vita

。 Education

  • PhD, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University

。 Honors and Experience

  • Fulbright Campus Advisor in Fu Jen University
  • Professor Lin Shu-rong’s Memorial Scholarship, National Tsing Hua University
  • Visiting Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, United States
  • Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant
  • Graduate Student Study Abroad Program, Ministry of Science and Technology （科技部千里馬計畫獎助）
  • Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
  • 2013-2015 Fieldwork in Zhuokeji and Songgang Township, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China



Publications

。 Thesis for an academic degree

  1. 2018 “House”, Illusion or Illumination?: The Social Organization and Language of Sichuan rGyalrong Tibetan. Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
  2. 2007 卓克基嘉戎藏人的「家」與親屬。國立清華大學人類學研究所碩士論文。

。 Published articles

  1. 2020 Rustic, Fancy, or Authentic? A New Perspective on the Minority and Ethnic Clothing on the Fashion Show Runway. Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 210: 105-143. (Co-author)
  2. 2016 From West to East: Rethinking Social Organization and Kinship studies in the Tibetan Himalayas through a Comparison between Sherpas and rGyalrongs. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 14(2):95-144。
  3. 2012 The House, the State and Changes: The Modernity of Sichuan rGyalrong Tibetans. In Modalities of Change: The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia. James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin, eds. Pp. 21-36. New York: Berghahn Books.

。 Conference Papers

  1. 2020 Family, Alliance and Inheritance: The Local Politics and Family of rGyalrong Tibetan Native Official in Situ Area of Sichuan. Paper presented in International Colloquium on Tibetan Buddhism-- Benefitting Sentient Beings through Re-embodiment: The Development of the Tulku-recognizing System since the 17th Century, National Palace Museum, Taipei, December 16-17.
  2. 2020 From the Ringu to Sadako: Preliminary Perspective of Material Culture on Japanese Horror Movies. Paper presented in Annual Meeting of Taiwan Association for Religious Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, October 16-17.
  3. 2020 One Emperor, Three Religions: Discussion on Qing Empire’s Multi-Religion Governance from Emperor Qianlong’s Portrait. Paper presented in Multi-Religion and Sign Vehicle Conference, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, March 19-20.
  4. 2019 Closeness, Intimacy, and Kinship among the Situ rGyalrong in Northwest Sichuan. Paper presented in the “Kinship by choice and Friendship by preference: Intimacy and interaction in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland ” panel, co-organized by Wang Tingyu and Eveline Bingaman, at the 15th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, July 7-13.
  5. 2017 History as a Mirror: Understanding Contemporary rGyalrong Society through their History of Interaction with the Chinese Empire. Paper presented in the “Reciprocity and Interaction between the Chinese State and its Borderlands Part I: Policy and People” panel, co-organized by Wang Tingyu and Eveline Bingaman, at the 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, July 20-23.
  6. 2016 Picking Up My Bones: The Kinship Terminology and the Idea of Flesh and Bone of Situ rGyalrong Tibetan in Northwest Sichuan. Paper presented in the “Kinship, Social Organization and History in Tibet and Its Borderlands: Toward New Engagement with Anthropology Theory” panel, co-organized by Wang Tingyu, Jonathan Samuels, and Reinier Langelaar, at the 14th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, May 19-25.