George Chun Han Wang is a scholar-practitioner whose profile extends from creative work to published scholarship. Born and raised in Taiwan, George holds a BA in French from Tamkang University, attended Boston University film school, and earned an MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute Conservatory. He interned with acclaimed producer Alex Kitman Ho, trained at VFX pioneer Richard Edlund’s Boss Film Studios, and once served as an assistant to wuxia cinema legend King Hu. After AFI, George directed/edited/designed numerous video displays, promos and commercials during his tenure at MGM and Wynn Resorts as an AVID Editor/Video Graphics Artist. Having worked in various capacities from directing to editing to storyboarding in independent and commercial productions since the 1990s, many creative projects he has worked on were widely televised/released or exhibited/awarded at major film festivals.
George began teaching as a part-time lecturer at the Art Institute of Las Vegas before becoming an assistant professor at the Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas where he taught Final Cut Pro as an Apple Certified Trainer. Since joining the Academy for Creative Media (now the School of Cinematic Arts) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2008, George focused his research on the life and works of King Hu. His sole-authored essays has won 4 peer-reviewed paper prizes from the University Film and Video Association (2008) and Broadcast Education Association (2009, 2016, 2023). He has published in Asian Cinema journal, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Journal of Film and Video, and the Archiv Orientální. He guest-edited Asian Cinema journal’s East-West Flows special issue (2018), and co-edited King Hu in His Own Words (Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche, 2013), the first English-language publication of King Hu’s writings that was subsequently published in Italian and French.
Named faculty fellow by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (2009) and National Association of Television Program Executives (2010), George was chair of faculty video competition for BEA Festival of Media Arts (2011-12), American Pavilion faculty mentor at Cannes Film Festival (2009), writer for Udine Far East Film Fest. (2011-13) and Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Fest. (2012), screenplay competition judge for the Hong Kong Asia Film Forum at the Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival (2015-2016), and served as NETPAC Award Jury Chairperson at film festivals including Busan (BIFF 2011), Bucheon (BiFAN 2019), Hawaiʻi (HIFF 2023), Taipei (Golden Horse 2014) and Toronto (TIFF 2020). Awarded tenure in 2012, George advanced to the rank of full professor in 2019. He was elected Mānoa Faculty Senator (2020-21), member of Board of Directors at the University of Hawaiʻi Professional Assembly (2020-21), and served multiple terms in the Executive Committee at the UH Mānoa Center for Chinese Studies (2018-21, 2025-26). George currently serves on the Board of Directors for the King Hu Foundation USA.
George is a recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, which funded his research and visiting professorship at The University of Hong Kong (2014-15). George also served as Faculty Resident Director for the UH Mānoa Study Abroad programs in Paris, France (Institut d’Économie Scientifique et de Gestion, 2023) and Machida, Japan (J.F. Oberlin University, 2024).
George was recognized with the Excellence in Teaching Award by UH Mānoa College of Arts, Languages & Letters (2021).
Email: wangch@hawaii.edu
Academia: https://manoa-hawaii.academia.edu/GeorgeChunHanWang
Open Researcher ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7501-4077
