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Marinaccio, Jess

Jess Marinaccio is currently a PhD candidate in Pacific studies at Victoria University of Wellington. She previously received a master’s degree in Chinese literature from National Taiwan University, after which she worked as a Mandarin-English translator at the Tuvalu Embassy in Taiwan. Her research focuses on Tuvalu-Taiwan performative cultural diplomacy, as well as understandings of diplomacy and indigeneity in Tuvalu and Taiwan, and her articles on these subjects have been published in Issues & Studies, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, and the International Journal of Taiwan Studies.