China in Europe Research Network (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - chair)

Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is currently a member of the College of Experts (2020-2022) of the Australian Research Council. A fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2016, she has worked in the area of cultural anthropology of migration for more than two decades. Wanning has spearheaded global diasporic Chinese-language media as a distinct area of research, with the publication of her first book, Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination (2002), and three edited Routledge volumes on this topic: Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce (2006), Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking Transnationalism (2016, with John Sinclair), and the recently published WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora (2022, with Haiqing Yu).