Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture -CHINA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE FOREWORD

Message from the Vice-Chancellor

“Can we think about a museum If ideas are just as important as objects, then our relationship with ideas and, very [as something] that represents importantly, the way we impart and share ideas as well as objects?” This them is critical. Understanding each other is the provocative question at the personal, and indeed collective or Melissa Chiu, the director of the national level is pivotal in bringing meaning Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn - one of and purpose to relationships. Art and culture are exceptionally powerful and transformative the world’s leading contemporary platforms upon which to achieve that art museums - urges us to pose understanding. when considering the role cultural institutions perform in society. The newly established Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture at Western For Dr Chiu, the impulse to question, to explore, University will be just such a platform. The to engage and ignite the imagination, and Institute - made possible by the generous importantly encourage understanding must be foundational donation of businessman, Mr at the heart of any worthy cultural endeavour. Xiangmo Huang - will be a vibrant and highly Her drive to constantly expand and challenge engaged rallying point for the building of our conception of ideas and objects is indicative greater understanding of Chinese culture. of the approach championed at Western At a time when the relationship between Sydney University. It is a trait she shares with Australia and China has never been closer or many of her fellow ‘Western’ alumni. more important, the Institute will enable the development of deeper ties forged through an The centrality of ‘ideas’ in institutional and open, intellectual and dynamic engagement intellectual articulations of culture makes with centuries old and emerging Chinese arts universities a somewhat natural fit for our and culture. engagement with the arts and culture more broadly. It is through teaching and research that On behalf of the University I am delighted to the shape and form of the arts and culture are formally announce and warmly welcome the simultaneously consolidated and remodelled. establishment of the Australia-China Institute Through scholarship and research we find for Arts and Culture. certainty both in tradition and in change. Professor Barney Glover Vice-Chancellor and University President

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Professor Jocelyn Chey AM

Australia-China Institute for Professor Chey was also the key administrative officer in the Australia-China Council at Arts and Culture Foundation the time it was founded in 1979. From Director, Professor Jocelyn 1988–1992 she worked outside the public Chey AM, has already made an sector, as Director of the China Branch of the outstanding contribution to International Wool Secretariat. Australia’s diplomatic service and Now retired from the public service, Professor to academic life. Chey lives in Sydney. Her most recent role before joining Western Sydney University was For more than 20 years she was a senior figure Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, within the Australian Department of Foreign where she was a consultant on Australia-China Affairs and Trade, where she was instrumental relations. in helping lay the foundations for trade and cultural relations between China and Australia. Professor Chey is a frequent speaker and lecturer on Chinese affairs and history, and Professor Chey began her career as lecturer speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. in Chinese studies at the University of Sydney. She then moved to Canberra in 1973, when She was awarded the Australia-China Council Australia first established diplomatic relations Medal for contributions to the development with China. of relations between Australia and China in November 2008, was made a Member of the Holding numerous roles within the Departments Order of Australia (AM) in January 2009 and a of Trade and Foreign Affairs, she worked to Fellow of the Institute of International Affairs further Australia-China relations and was (FAIIA) in November 2009. posted three times in China and .

Professor Chey’s many distinguished diplomatic appointments include Cultural Counsellor in the Australia Embassy in (1975–1978); Senior Trade Commissioner in the Australian Embassy in Beijing (1985–1988); and Consul-General for Australia in Hong Kong (1992–1995).

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Mr Xiangmo Huang Chairman of Yuhu Group

Mr Xiangmo Huang was born Mr Huang brought not only his business acumen to Australia but also his proven in the small town named Yuhu, commitment to social responsibility in the which is located within the city of local community. In 2013 his company held its Jieyang in the Guangdong province inaugural ‘Giving Day’ in Sydney, perhaps the of China. After several years as the largest community support event of its kind in managing director of a state-owned Australia. Yuhu Group provided more than $2.8 million in support, including $1.8 million to the enterprise, Mr Huang founded his University of Technology Sydney (UTS) for the own company, the Shenzhen Yuhu establishment of the Australia China Relations Investment Development Company Institute (ACRI); and $1 million to the Children’s Limited in 2001. Medical Research Institute (CMRI) in Westmead.

Specialising in property development, the Mr Huang chairs the Research Excellence company has earned a reputation for quality Foundation of Children’s Medical Research villas and high-rise apartments, with Tower C of Institutes. the Jingguang Sea View Garden development receiving the prestigious ‘Luban Award’, China’s Driven by a passion for building connections premier award for building excellence. between nations, Mr Huang’s generous philanthropic donation to establish the Mr Huang migrated to Sydney in 2011 to Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture further expand his investments and in 2012 will support a range of research activities established the Yuhu Group (Australia) Pty Ltd, as well as staff of the Institute, including a which has acquired two suburban shopping Director, research fellow and postdoctoral centres and a number of commercial buildings. fellow. It will also support the development of a Masters program in Chinese arts and literature and a student scholarship program.

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ACIAC is positioning itself as a hub and national resource centre for cultural exchange between Australia, China and the Sinosphere (including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and other centres of Chinese culture), and for collaborative action in the arts and cultural fields. It is building on the strengths of Western Sydney University and on existing exchange programs in the University. It will enhance existing exchanges between the University and partner universities overseas, particularly in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It is launching significant new research programs of relevance to the Australia-China relationship, and will engage with the local community in Western Sydney and particularly with ethnic Chinese groups, businesses and individuals.

Chinese calligraphy by Shen Wednesday.

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PLACE AND CULTURE COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

Chinese migrants have contributed to the Language is the vehicle of culture and the development of Australia since the mid-19th basis for communication and understanding. century and particularly in recent decades. Research and activities that improve Chinese Chinese is now the most widely spoken language capacities for Australians and that language in Sydney after English, and the enhance understanding of Chinese culture western suburbs of Sydney enjoy the most through translation and interpretation will be diverse cultural mixes. Understanding people to central to the Institute’s work. Reciprocally, people links between China and Australia and it will support greater understanding of the complexities of cross-cultural exchanges, Australian language and culture in China and languages and social interactions is basic to the other centres of Chinese culture. building of trust and friendship.

ARTS AND CULTURE COMMUNITY AND CULTURE

Music is perhaps the most universal of the Nelson Mandela said, “Sport has the power performing arts, being found in every society to change the world, the power to inspire, and in diverse contexts. It often recounts the power to unite people in a way that little history and conveys deep cultural meaning, else can…. It is an instrument for peace.” and it has a unique potential to communicate Recreational and leisure activities, such as without language. Film has come to occupy a sports, martial arts, and health-building unique place in modern cultures and speaks exercises are increasingly shared between powerfully to the younger generation. It can Australian and Chinese people. Likewise, record and communicate across time and place Chinese cuisine has been part of Australian and is a powerful medium of cultural exchange. culture since colonial times, and today The visual arts can promote collaboration Australian food and wine are increasingly between societies, enhance community accepted in China. Food, indeed, is the great engagement, document history and even bring cultural unifier. Popular and community cultural about social change, so they have a place in the activities will be a focus of the Institute. Institute’s program.

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MISSION

TO PROVIDE AN INSTITUTE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CHINESE ARTS AND CULTURE BY DELIVERING: WORLD CLASS RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP A DISTINCTIVE MASTERS PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PUBLIC EDUCATION INITIATIVES

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Our expertise

Western Sydney University is ranked in the top two percent of universities in the world with a growing reputation for impact driven, globally relevant research.

Positioned within Western Sydney University, the Institute will consolidate and build on a wide range of existing teaching and research expertise in Chinese literature, translation, interpretation, music composition and history within the Institute for Culture and Society, School of Education and School of Humanities and Communication Arts.

The Institute will provide scope to expand our current offering of cultural activities, such as the China Australia Literary Forum. This will provide more members of the community with opportunities to access and engage deeply with Chinese arts and literature.

The Institute will engage and foster the development of high calibre, influential people like Western Sydney University alumni, Dr Melissa Chiu. Dr Chiu is the Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington and is internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on modern and contemporary Asian art.

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Top 3% Times Higher Education World University Rankings Top 60 university under the age of 50, Times Higher Education 2015 Top 10 Australian university for scientific impact, Leiden Rankings Top 400 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities AUSTRALIA-CHINA INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE

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THE INSTITUTE WILL LEVERAGE WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY’S EXISTING ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHINA. INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND COMMUNICATION ARTS WHITLAM INSTITUTE BILINGUALISM LAB SCHOOL OF EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL WRITING AND SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTRE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMPLIMENTARY MEDICINE

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Key researchers

The Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture will leverage the existing and outstanding research expertise within the University.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RUYING QI PROFESSOR ALAN BENSOUSSAN DR JING HAN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, LANGUAGES, DIRECTOR, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LECTURER, LANGUAGES, INTERPRETING INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATION (SOHCA) COMPLIMENTARY MEDICINE AND TRANSLATION (SOHCA)

Dr Ruying Qi (Senior Lecturer, PhD Supervisor, Professor Alan Bensoussan is one of Australia’s Jing Han received her BA in English from Head of China Liaison Unit, Director of prominent complementary medicine Lanzhou University and MA in English Literature Bilingualism Research Lab at WSU-JNU, School researchers with a focus on Chinese medicine from Beijing Foreign Studies University. She of Humanities and Communication Arts, research and clinical practice spanning 25 years. came to Australia in 1988 to do her PhD in Western Sydney University). He has received ministerial appointments to English literature at The University of Sydney several State and Commonwealth committees and received her doctoral degree in 1995. Dr Ruying Qi has internationally recognised and has frequently consulted as an expert panel Dr Han joined SBS TV in 1996 as a Mandarin expertise and reputation in early bilingual and member to national and international agencies subtitler and she is now the head of the SBS multilingual language acquisition, and innovative such as the World Health Organisation. Subtitling Department. Over the last 19 years, applications to Chinese language teaching she has subtitled more than 300 Chinese films and early childhood education. Dr Qi made Professor Bensoussan’s research contributions and TV programs for the Australian audience. influential and original contributions through have been widely reported. He has published her ground-breaking monograph The Bilingual over 160 scientific papers and two books, As a leading expert in translation and Acquisition of English and Mandarin (2011), the including a review of acupuncture research intercultural communications, Dr Han has Award-winning Chinese language teaching (1990) and a major government report on presented frequently at conferences in program in Australia, and the establishment the practice of traditional Chinese medicine Europe, Australia and China. She has recently of the first joint Bilingualism Research Lab in in Australia (1996), which led to national completed English translation of the famous Australia and in China. She holds international regulation of Chinese medicine practitioners in Chinese writer Ye Xin’s novel Debt of Love. Research Fellowships at Nanjing University, Australia in 2012 – the first western nation to Jinan University, Chinese University of Hong do so. He has forged a broad network of links Kong and University of London. She is serving with national and international organisations as expert advisor, assessor and reviewer on nine within government and industry, including advisory international bodies including China’s major collaborative research projects with Ministry of Education, NSW Board of Studies, key institutions in China. In 2013 Professor and Australian Office of Learning and Teaching. Bensoussan received the prestigious International Award for Contribution to Chinese The international standing and broader impact Medicine, the only recipient outside the People’s of Dr Qi’s work can be seen in high-level media Republic of China. In 2014 he was awarded the attention as well as frequent invited expert Lady Cilento Award by the peak Australian appearances on Sydney’s radio stations, in industry association recognising an individual’s Chinese newspapers and for Sydney City lifetime achievements and outstanding Councils and Australian Chinese Communities. contributions to the industry and community.

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Key researchers

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BRUCE CROSSMAN PROFESSOR PAUL JAMES DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR IEN ANG MUSIC (SOHCA) DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE AND INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY SOCIETY Composer Bruce Crossman’s music draws Distinguished Professor Ien Ang is a Professor on living colour aesthetics from Confucian Paul James is Professor of Globalisation and of Cultural Studies and was the founding thought. As Scholar-in-Residence, at the David Cultural Diversity at Western Sydney University Director of the Institute for Culture and Society. C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong where is Director of the Institute for Culture She is one of the leaders in cultural studies Kong Baptist University, he researched and and Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society worldwide, with interdisciplinary work spanning published (in press, Ashgate UK) on Chinese of the Arts (London), and Scientific Advisor to many areas of the humanities and social opera. Leading Australian musicians premiered the Senate Department for Urban Development sciences. Her books, including Watching Dallas, the Chinese opera-influenced Gentleness- (Berlin). He has delivered invited addresses Desperately Seeking the Audience and On Not Suddenness; it featured in a two-hour broadcast in over 40 countries and is author or editor of Speaking Chinese, are recognised as classics in on Australian national radio. His current 33 books including most importantly, Nation the field and her work has been translated into composition Where are the Sounds of Joy?, Formation (Sage) and Globalism, Nationalism, many languages. re-envisages the Gallipoli war from the Chinese- Tribalism (Sage). In the second of those Australian working with Chinese painter Luping books particularly, the global presence of Professor Ang’s innovative interdisciplinary Zeng. Crossman is currently collaborating with China is important as a counterweight to the work deals broadly with patterns of cultural the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. Eurocentric tendency to say that nationalism or flow and exchange in our globalised world, globalisation centred first on Europe. His latest focusing on issues such as: the formation book is Urban Sustainability in Theory and of audiences and publics; the politics of Practice: Circles of Sustainability (Routledge), identity and difference; migration, ethnicity an investigation of different pathways to and multiculturalism in Australia and ; sustainable development. In the development and issues of representation in contemporary of this work, James collaborated closely with cultural institutions. She recently completed an Metropolis, the World Association of the ARC research project on Sydney’s Chinatown Major Metropolises, including colleagues in in the Asian Century: from Ethnic Enclave Guangzhou. He was Chair of the Australia- to Global Hub (with Donald McNeill and Kay China Forum at RMIT University (2005–2014), Anderson in collaboration with the City of which involved convening a series of Sydney). She chairs an Expert Working Group conferences in Beijing and Shanghai. on Asia Literacy: Language and Beyond, for the Australian Council of Learned Academies’ Securing Australia’s Future program. As a prominent public speaker and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, she is frequently called on for keynote addresses in Australia and internationally.

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PROFESSOR ANTHONY UHLMANN PROFESSOR BRETT NEILSON ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TIANLI ZU DIRECTOR, WRITING AND SOCIETY RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH CENTRE CULTURE AND SOCIETY Australian multimedia artist, Tianli Zu, was born in Beijing, China. She studied at the Fine Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing Professor Brett Neilson’s research and writing Arts School, affiliated with the China Central and Society Research Centre at Western aims to provide alternative ways of conceiving Academy of Fine Arts, and later obtained her Sydney University. He works on 20th Century globalisation, with particular emphasis upon BA at the Academy. In 1988, Zu relocated to and contemporary literature in English and has its social and cultural dimensions. Drawing Sydney. In 2011, she obtained her MFA from published three books, two on Samuel Beckett on cultural and social theory as well as on the Sydney College of the Arts, The University and one on Modernism. He is currently working empirical and archival information, this research of Sydney, where in 2014, she received her on a project related to J. M. Coetzee. He has has derived original and provocative means doctorate degree. been instrumental in developing and organising for rethinking the significance of globalisation the second and third China Australia Literary for a wide range of contemporary problems In 1988, her artwork was used as the Year of the Forums (in Beijing in 2013 and in Sydney in and predicaments, including the circulation of Dragon image in a twelve-part zodiac stamp 2015) and in coordinating Writing and Society’s popular culture, the proliferation of borders, series issued by the Ministry of Posts and engagement with China and its ongoing links to the ascendancy of global financial markets, Telecommunications, China. the China Writers’ Association, the peak body the pressures of population ageing and the for literature and publishing in China. growing heterogeneity of labour. His writings In 2015, Zu was an Archibald finalist with her have been translated into thirteen languages: painting of Former Art Gallery of NSW Director, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Edmund Capon. In 2016, her Ox Lantern Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, sculpture was exhibited in Martin Place, Sydney, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. and her 3-series light-projection was projected on the National Library of Australia, Canberra. He is currently working on the ARC Discovery project, ‘Logistics as Global Governance: Zu specialises in the texts of Taoism as a Labour, Software and Infrastructure along means of understanding and participating the New Silk Road’, with partner researchers in this disruptive yin-yang world. Using an from Greece, India, Chile, Italy, Canada and interdisciplinary process of intuitive papercuts, the UK; and a second, ‘Data Centres and the animation and cinematic projection, she Governance of Labour and Territory’, with employs art to engage with complex social partner researchers from China, Singapore, phenomena culturally, philosophically and Italy, the UK and Germany. psychologically.

Zu seeks to work with people to attain understanding, perseverance and harmony in the context of contemporary art.

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IMPACT

WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IS IMPACT DRIVEN. THIS INSTITUTE WILL:

INTERNATIONALISE CHINESE ENHANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE DOCUMENTATION, DEVELOP CREATIVE DISCUSSION AND ARTISTIC COLLABORATION PRESENTATION OF CHINESE WITH CHINESE CULTURAL ARTS AND CULTURE CENTRES PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROMOTE AUSTRALIA AS A YOUNG RESEARCHERS TO CULTURALLY VIBRANT AND DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES OPEN COUNTRY DELIVER RESEARCH DEEPEN AND BROADEN TO GOVERNMENT AND AUSTRALIA’S CULTURAL INDUSTRY TO ENHANCE LINKS WITH CHINA DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC SUPPORT AUSTRALIAN RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ARTISTS AND CULTURAL CHINA AND AUSTRALIA ORGANISATIONS TO TRAIN FUTURE MANAGERS, UNDERTAKE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE ADVISERS ON CULTURAL BUILD WESTERN SYDNEY’S EXCHANGE WITH CHINA REPUTATION AS ONE FOR GOVERNMENT, ARTS OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST INSTITUTIONS AND ACADEMIA MULTICULTURAL REGIONS STRENGTHEN CULTURAL ATTRACT TOP DOMESTIC TIES WITH CHINESE LIVING AND INTERNATIONAL ABROAD CHINESE ARTISTS, ENHANCE CROSS CULTURAL ACADEMICS, CURATORS, UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN HISTORIANS AND CHINESE AND AUSTRALIAN PERFORMERS TO AUSTRALIA PEOPLE

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World class research and scholarship

The appointment of a The Director’s role is to: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS distinguished scholar to the ≥≥Provide national and international leadership for advancing exchanges in arts and culture Postdoctoral Fellows are recent doctoral position of Director of the with China and other cultural centres students who have completed a minimum of four years of study in a field of research Institute has been made to ≥≥Deliver new approaches for the translation relevant to this appointment. A Postdoctoral advance academic programs and and internationalisation of Chinese arts and Fellow will support the research effort of culture enhance teaching and research. the Institute and will have some teaching ≥≥Develop a vision and original program of responsibilities within the Masters program, The appointment is at Professorial level to research to underpin the direction of the including offering advice to incumbent PhD reflect the exceptional contribution made Institute students in areas of research expertise. by the Director to building cultural relations ≥≥Reinforce the international profile of the between Australia and China. Institute in research and teaching Western Sydney University welcomes Visiting Fellows to the Institute to develop a network The wide connections made by the Director ≥≥Initiate and develop national and for international knowledge exchanges and in both Australia and China will help attract international collaborations with other research collaborations. world class research teams and expertise to institutes and industry partners. the Institute. The Director will be supported by: ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

RESEARCH FELLOW An Executive Assistant has been appointed to the Institute and other support staff will be A Research Fellow is being appointed, being provided as the Institute’s work develops. a postdoctoral qualified academic researcher with more than five years of demonstrated experience in a relevant field of study, that is in Chinese arts and culture and their interaction and collaboration with Australia. The Research Fellow will contribute to the research effort of the Institute and will develop expertise through agreed projects relevant to the Institute’s focus areas, as guided by the Director. The Research Fellow will also supervise honours and doctoral students and help prepare funding applications.

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A distinctive International Community Masters program collaborations and engagement and exchange public education initiatives

The establishment of a Masters Fostering and developing new and The Institute will connect level program at Western Sydney existing local and international with the community through a University specialising in Chinese relationships with industry, arts dynamic program of outreach arts and culture will ensure the and literature communities, activities including local and future development of knowledge universities and government international presentations and expertise. agencies through scholarly and publications, workshops, exchange, PhD programs, and seminars and symposiums. The 18 month program will commence in 2018, other initiatives. with the option of converting to a Research A comprehensive education program will Masters degree after one year. Teaching in the Western Sydney University has developed be developed to ensure the benefits of the program will draw on the expertise of staff of partnerships with over 50 universities, Institute and its research are accessible and the Institute, other schools and institutes within government agencies and research institutes sustained for future generations and to enable Western Sydney University, as well as visiting in China as well as in Hong Kong, Taiwan and students, young researchers and artistic scholars from partner universities. other centres of Chinese culture. achievers to expand their horizons. Besides engaging in ground-breaking research The Institute will capitalise on these into particular aspects of Chinese arts and relationships by facilitating scholarly exchange culture, Masters degree students will contribute to build knowledge, foster new ideas and to the work of ACIAC through its public lecture internationalise thinking about Chinese arts series, and will help with relevant Institute and culture. projects such as conferences and exhibitions. The degree will include course work and Locally, Western Sydney University will engage practical experience with companies and experts and community leaders in relevant institutions engaged in exchanges with China fields to expand the reach of the Institute’s and other centres of Chinese culture. Students activities and secure community support. will have the opportunity to complete some units at partner universities in China and Internationally, research collaborations will travelling scholarships will be available for be led by the Institute bringing together the this purpose. world’s best to develop greater understanding of Chinese arts and culture and to promote Adopting a thoroughly comparative collaboration in relevant fields. perspective, the degree will address Chinese and Australian cultural policies and practices, arts management and governance, and cultural diplomacy. Research topics may be selected from the following: ≥≥ literature and translation ≥≥ theatre and drama ≥≥ film and computer games ≥≥ music including classical, contemporary and pop ≥≥ visual arts including digital arts ≥≥ community and ethnic culture ≥≥sport

Some scholarships will be available to Australian students enrolling in the program.

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Scholarship program

As Australia engages more closely ACIAC is offering scholarships to graduate Besides engaging in ground-breaking research students who wish to undertake studies in into particular aspects of Chinese arts and with China and other Asian Chinese arts and culture and in Australia-China culture, scholarship recipients will contribute countries, our universities and cultural diplomacy with a view to developing to the work of ACIAC through its public lecture cultural institutions need many their careers in government, academia and series, and will help with relevant Institute more specialists in all areas of the private sector. Students will be able to projects such as conferences and exhibitions. select to study either in the Masters degree Chinese culture as they deepen program through course work and research, Through cultural exchanges developed by their relationships with China, or to engage in doctoral studies under one of ACIAC the Australian public will gain greater Hong Kong, Taiwan and other the many distinguished scholars in Western understanding of Chinese culture and the two centres of Chinese culture. Sydney University. cultural traditions will find inspiration and new sources of creativity. Research specialisation will be possible in a number of areas including literature and translation, theatre and drama, film and computer games, music, visual arts including digital arts, community and ethnic culture, and sport.

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Place and prominence

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THE INSTITUTE THE CAMPUS THE LOCATION

The Institute is optimally positioned in the The Institute is located within the University’s The campus is located on the corner of James most prominent position on Western Sydney main teaching hub on Parramatta South Ruse Drive and Victoria Road, Rydalmere. It is a University’s main Parramatta South campus. campus. ten-minute bus ride from the major commercial and retail centre of Parramatta. The campus is The Institute occupies 150sqm of existing space Over 15,000 students visit the campus each next to Rydalmere train station and can also within a major teaching building, Building week studying across diverse fields, including be accessed by a regular bus service operating EA. The space features a large foyer area for Asian and International Studies, International from Parramatta train station. hosting functions and welcoming visitors to the Management, Social Psychology and Social Institute, a meeting room, professorial office Research, Humanitarian Studies, Business and space, open plan workstations, a kitchenette, Commerce, Law, Computing and a range of a benefactor’s wall and a state of the art health and science related courses. technology fit out. Students enrolled in the Masters program and The space features large wrap-around north researchers have access to great facilities and facing windows overlooking the main arrival an array of activities on the campus. plaza and green spaces at the front of the campus. Academic staff have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers co-located on the campus.

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