​Chun-Yi Peng is an Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College- CUNY. His primary research interests are in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. His dissertation examines the ideological perception of Taiwanese Mandarin by Chinese Mainlanders, and how televised media and language attitudes play a role in shaping such perceptions. Chun-Yi is also interested in second language acquisition and dialect contact, especially syntactic variation in spoken Mandarin varieties. He has recently published the article ＂Mediatized Taiwan Mandarin: language ideologies and social perceptions＂ in Chinese Language and Discourse. His work on Taiwan Mandarin has also featured in mass media.