Christian Pak, MA
Pronouns: he/him/他
Personal Website: https://www.christianpak.co.uk/
Contact
Project Coordinator, Faculty of Science - Physics
- christianpak@ualberta.ca
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3-149 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Grad Research Assistantship, Faculty of Arts - East Asian Studies Dept
- christianpak@ualberta.ca
Research Assistant, Faculty of Arts - Political Science Dept
- christianpak@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Mediaeval Chinese Literature Literary Reception Pre-modern Chinese Literary History
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, and ongoing strategic work 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
My thesis juxtaposes the poetry of Chen Zi'ang (fl. ca. 658–699), an Early Tang poet, with Taoism. By employing hermeneutics, this study contends that Taoism exerted a pivotal influence on the formation and expression of Chen's poetic works.