Christian Pak, MA, BSSc(Hons)

Project Coordinator, Faculty of Science - Physics
Grad Research Assistantship, Faculty of Arts - East Asian Studies Dept

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Personal Website: https://www.christianpak.co.uk/

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Contact

Project Coordinator, Faculty of Science - Physics
Email
christianpak@ualberta.ca
Address
3-149 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Grad Research Assistantship, Faculty of Arts - East Asian Studies Dept
Email
christianpak@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Mediaeval Chinese Literature Early Tang Literature Pre-modern Chinese Literary History Literary Reception Pre-modern Chinese Fiction


About

Christian Pak (MA, Hong Kong, 2022) is a postgraduate at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Alberta. His main research interest lies in mediaeval Chinese literature, history, and culture. His subsidiary research interest is classical Chinese fiction. 

He is also appointed to the position of Project Coordinator for the Consortium for Distributed and Passive Sensing of the Department of Physics, where his responsibilities include assistance in project administrative duties, project deliverables, events coordination, and ongoing strategic works within the Consortium.

Education
MA (with distinction), Chinese Language and Literature, The University of Hong Kong, 2022
BSSc (Honours), China Studies (Minor: Chinese Language and Literature), The Education University of Hong Kong, 2017


Research

Under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Fried, my thesis is in conjunction between the poetry of Chen Zi'ang (fl. ca. 658–699), an Early Tang poet, with Daoism. My thesis analyses Chen Zi'ang's Daoist' sensibility throughout his literary writings.