eBook Dynasty: Manager's CV
Personal Details
Name: Yunn-Yu Sun (English name: Christine)
Email: contact@ebookdynasty.net
Bilingual Blog: Voices under the Sun
Educational Background
10/2004: PhD (Chinese Studies), School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Australia. Thesis published in 2008 as Voices under the Sun: English-Language Writings by Australian and Other Authors with Chinese Ancestry.
03/1996: MA, School of Journalism, The Ohio State University, U.S.A.
06/1994: BA, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Other Qualifications
02-04/2015: Certificates for successful completion of the following courses provided by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters: Ethics & Professional Conduct (Translation), Ethics & Professional Conduct (Interpreting), Insight into Translation Theory & Practice, Insight into Interpreting Theory & Practice, Introduction to Interpreting, Behaving Ethically, Professional Translator Test Preparatory Workshop, and Interpreter Test Preparatory Workshop.
09/1996: Certificate of Advanced Professional Consecutive Interpreting (English and Mandarin), issued by the Asia Pacific Cooperation Centre's International Linguistic Training of Human Resources Development, Taiwan.
Portfolio
09/2022: Participant, "Reader Development" Roundtable, one of three concurrent roundtables as part of the Cities of Literature Meeting hosted by Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature at State Library Victoria.
09/2022: Designer, Developer and Presenter/Instructor for three online courses: "Introduction to Translation", "Introduction to Independent Publishing", and "Working with/as a Translator to Explore Foreign Markets", supported by the Australian Council for the Arts.
02/2021-Date: Weekly column “Passion for Prose”, The Star Mail, reviewing and recommending Australian books and literary events for readers across the Dandenong Ranges and Yarra Valley.
05/2020: Received a "Resilience Fund – Adapt" grant from the Australian Council for the Arts, to research and develop three online courses.
2017 to Date: Judge, Horror and Science Fiction Panels, for the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Speculative Fiction.
05/2019: Participant, “Long-Form Journalism with Anna Krien” workshop, supported by the Feminist Writers Festival.
03/2019: Interview with SBS Mandarin on bilingual writing, translation, reading and publishing.
02/2019: Presentation, “Chinese Reading Inspiration for Adults”, for the 2019 Chinese Reading and Writing Festival sponsored by the Whitehorse Manningham Libraries.
01/2019: Trip to Taiwan, to develop a framework and feasibility study for distributing Chinese-language editions of books by Australian authors in print and digital formats, supported by a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund via Writers Victoria and Myer Foundation.
11-12/2018: Participant, Foundry658 Accelerator, an intensive business program offered by the State Library Victoria and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as part of the Victorian Government's Creative State strategy.
09/2018: Participant, “Running Writing Workshops” workshop for women and non-binary writers of colour, supported by Writers Victoria.
05/2018: Participant, “Storytelling for VR” workshop, hosted by VRTOV and supported by Film Victoria's “Stories for the 21st Century” program.
01/2018: Participant, “Victorian Women in International Business Pan Asia Export Training Workshop”, sponsored by Trade Victoria.
2018, 2015: Audience Advocate, Melbourne Writers Festival.
06/2017: Scholarship Recipient and Participant, Reading Matters Conference, sponsored by State Library Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature.
01/2017-10/2018: General Fiction Editor and Guest Tweeter for the Australian Women Writers Challenge.
04/2016: Independent Assessor, Literature Panel, for Creative Victoria's Organisational Investment Program (OIP).
03/2016: Participant, 55th Australian National Speculative Fiction Convention, sponsored by the Carl Brandon Society’s “Con or Bust” program.
08-09/2012: Reporter, MediaLink, Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural New South Wales.
06/2012-Date: Manager, eBook Dynasty, owned and operated by Australia's Solid Software Pty Ltd.
07/2011: Researcher and Translator/Interpreter, Oriental Titanic, a Chinese-language TV documentary produced by Taiwan’s Skyeye Film Production Ltd, about Australian destroyer HMAS Warramunga's rescue of Chinese survivors from the sinking of SS Taiping near Shanghai on January 28, 1949.
01/2004-01/2005: Manager, The Digital Self Project, Solid Software Pty Ltd, supported by a Telstra Broadband Fund.
01-12/2003: Research Assistant, “Democratisation in Taiwan” Project for Professor Bruce Jacobs, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University.
02/1997-Date: Research Officer, Solid Software Pty Ltd.
07/1996-02/1997: Legislative Assistant, Mr Hau Long-Bin, Parliament Member and later Taipei City Mayor, Taiwan.
09-12/1995: Fine Arts Staff Writer, The Lantern, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
07/1993-08/1994: Educational Supervisor and Counsellor, 1993 & 1994 Overseas Chinese Youth Language Training & Study Tour to the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Selected Grants, Awards and Prizes
05/2020: A grant from the "2020 Resilience Fund – Adapt" provided by the Australia Council for the Arts, for research, development and presentation of three online courses on translation and independent publishing.
12/2018: A "Pencilled In Commission" for Asian Australian Writers, for essay “The Sound of Own Voices” published by Writers Victoria's The Victorian Writer magazine.
10/2018: A Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund awarded by Writers Victoria and Myer Foundation, to travel to Taiwan, to develop a framework and feasibility study for distributing Chinese-language editions of books by Australian authors in print and digital formats.
01/2018: A “Women Writers of Colour Bursary” from Writers Victoria to attend “The Art of Criticism: Giving and Receiving Feedback” workshop.
06/2017: A Reading Matters Early-Career Scholarship from the State Library Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature, to attend Reading Matters Conference.
05-07/2016: Recipient of the Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.
03/2016: A grant and attending membership provided by the Carl Brandon Society’s “Con or Bust” program to attend the 55th Australian National Speculative Fiction Convention.
12/2015: On behalf of eBook Dynasty, recipient of Victoria's Multicultural Award for Excellence – Victorian Multicultural Marketing Award.
12/2013: A Creative Industries Career Fund provided by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund, to complete a series of courses and workshops organised by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters.
02-11/2004: Co-recipient of a research grant from the Telstra Broadband Fund, for the development of Solid Software Pty Ltd’s The Digital Self Project.
11/1998: A Postgraduate Travel Grant provided by Monash University, and a Travel Grant provided by the American Association for Chinese Studies, to present at the 40th annual conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies in New York City, U.S.A.
Selected Publications
08/2021: Book Review, The Edward Street Baby Farm by Stella Budrikis (Fremantle Press, 2020), Limina Journal, Volume 26.2 (2021).
02/2021-Date: Weekly column “Passion for Prose”, The Star Mail, reviewing and recommending Australian books and literary events.
12/2018: Essay “Storytelling for VR”, published by Submittable, December 3, 2018.
12/2018: Essay “The Sound of Own Voices”, commissioned by Pencilled In and published by Writers Victoria's The Victorian Writer magazine, December 1, 2018.
06/2018: “Christine Sun reviews The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi”, published by Mascara Literary Review, Issue 22 China Transnational, June 6, 2018.
05/2018: Book Chapter “Formation and Control of Identity in a Social Media World”, co-authored with Steve Goschnick, Innovative Methods, User-Friendly Tools, Coding, and Design Approaches in People-Oriented Programming (Steve Goschnick [ed.], Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering Series, IGI Global, May 2018).
04/2018: Commissioned essay “All In That Space: On Asian Australian Writers”, Sydney Review of Books, April 27, 2018.
12/2017: Book Review, Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play by Michael Resnick (MIT Press, 2017), International Journal of People-Oriented Programming, Volume 6, Issue 2, July-December 2017.
11/2017: Poem “Four Corners”, Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 - “Work”, November 30, 2017, guest edited by Benjamin Laird and Cassandra Atherton.
06/2017: Book Review, From the Wreck by Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge, 2017), Westerly literary magazine.
10/2016: Book Review, Seeing the Elephant by Portland Jones (Margaret River Press, 2016), Westerly literary magazine.
04/2016-08/2017: English Translation of On Whom to Lean: The Life Stories of the War-Torn Generation of Chinese Americans at Rossmoor by Zong-Yi Li (Huaxia Renwen Publishing, original Chinese edition published in September 2015), published on August 7, 2017.
12/2015: Book Review, The Transhuman Antihero: Paradoxical Protagonists of Speculative Fiction from Mary Shelley to Richard Morgan by Michael Grantham (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015), Limina Journal, Volume 21.1 (2015).
11/2015: Commissioned Essay “Independent Publishing and Australia's Writers with Chinese Ancestry”, published by Writers Victoria's The Victorian Writer magazine.
10/2015: Commissioned Essay, “Self-publishing and Translation in China”, published by the Alliance of Independent Authors blog on October 8, 2015.
09/2015: Essay “Sites of Belonging”, Overland Literary Journal, September 23, 2015.
10/2013: “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Construction of Online Identity and Its Consequences”, International Journal of People-Oriented Programming, 2 (1), 55-73, January-June 2012.
09/2013: English re-writing of four classic Chinese novels for young readers – Journey to the West, The Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, Dream of the Red Chamber – illustrated by Shirley Chiang and published by Real Reads Ltd, U.K.
04/2011: Book Chapter “Two Approaches to Constructing ‘Chinese’ Cultural Identity: Australia’s Authors with Chinese Ancestry”, Australian Made: A Multicultural Reader (Sonia Mycak and Amit Sarwal [eds.], University of Sydney Press, 2011).
11/2003: “Looking into the Dark Side: Representation of New York City and Florence as 'Old Cities' in Two Contemporary Crime Novels”, paper presented at the “What Lies Beneath” Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia.
10/2003: “Noodles, Not Potatoes: Media Localisation in Taiwan”, paper presented at the “Border Crossing: Popular, Mass and Global Culture” Conference, Monash University, Australia.
10/1999: “Negotiating between ‘Bounded Spaces’: Introducing Australia’s Ethnic Chinese Writers to the World”, American Journal of Chinese Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, October 1999.
04-08/1999: Weekly Column “My Patch”, Sydney-based Chinese-language newspaper The Independent Daily, Australia.
03/1999: “Morning Show” Program, ABC Radio Triple J. Australia, research presentation on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China.
12/1998: Feature article “After the Flood”, on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River, published by The Good Weekend magazine, Australia.
10/1998: “Australia in Chinese Reportage Literature 1988-1998”, paper presented at the “Reading and Society in the Chinese-Speaking World: Treasure, Trash and Popular Writing” Conference, Australian National University, Australia.
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