5th Foundation for Australian Studies -: In China (FASIC) Conference 1-4 Transnational November 2017 Jiangsu Normal University Connectivity Xuzhou

Hosted by Convened by

Australian Studies Centre, Professor Gregory McCarthy, Jiangsu Normal University, BHP Chair of Australian Xuzhou Studies at Peking University

Co-organised by Sponsored by

Peking University Australian The Foundation for Australian Studies Centre Studies in China (FASIC) Australia-China: Transnational Connectivity Jiangsu Normal Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU), founded in 1952, is located Conference University in the historically and culturally significant city of Xuzhou, northern Jiangsu province. It is administered by the Jiangsu overview provincial government and the Central Ministry of Education. JSNU currently has four campuses: Quanshan, Yunlong, Kuiyuan and Jiawang. The university has three experimental programs, 22 specialty schools, the Teachers' Education School, Further Education School, International College and Kewen Institute. The university offers 87 undergraduate majors, 26 master programs, one doctor's program and one post-doctoral research station, covering 11 disciplines. Currently, the university has over 16,700 full-time undergraduate students and more than Australia-China: The Foundation for Australian Studies in China Conference 2,300 postgraduate students. Transnational is designed to bring together scholars and students to share Connectivity knowledge and develop mutual understanding by showcasing The Australian Studies Centre (ASC) at Jiangsu Normal high quality research on Australia and promoting Australian University was established in 1993. The director of centre, Studies as an internationally lively and engaging field of inquiry. Professor Zhang Qiusheng, is also vice-president of the China Association of Australian Studies. The main research fields of Under that heading, we will address a broad range of topics in ASC at JSNU are Australian history, Australian immigration the fields of history, culture, geography, international relations, policy, overseas Chinese, Australian politics, diplomacy and economics, tourism and immigration among others. Sino-Australian relations. The ASC at Jiangsu Normal University contributed to Australian studies in China by hosting the 9th International Conference of Australian Studies in China in 2004, and held seven Australian Cultural Weekly Activities since 2010. The ASC has made a series of noteworthy academic achievements, including some monographs, such as A History of the Chinese Emigrants to Australia; The General History of Overseas Chinese in the World: Oceania Volume; History of Australia-Asia Relations, 1940—1995; A Brief History of Australia; Guide to the World State: Australia, and; Australia and Globalization, among many other titles. The members of the ASC received three national social sciences founding projects in the past three years, and published several papers in important Chinese academic journals. The ASC served as an International Affairs Research Base that was approved by the Jiangsu provincial Education Office in 2013, and served as a registered base approved by the Ministry of Education in 2017. 3 Peking University As an interdisciplinary centre of Australian Studies established Conference Australian in 1996, Peking University Australian Studies Centre celebrated convenor its 20 years of commitment and dedication to Australian Professor Gregory McCarthy, Studies Centre BHP Chair of Australian Studies Studies by hosting a series of important functions such as at Peking University the 15th International Conference of Australian Studies in China in July 2016. The objective of the Centre is to promote Australian Studies as part of the University’s vision and academic development plan of regional studies and strengthen The annual FASIC conference in China is convened and designed the Australia-China relationship through collaboration with by Professor Gregory McCarthy, BHP Chair of Australian Studies partners in China and Australia. To this end, since 2012, at Peking University. The conference rotates on an annual basis the Centre has hosted the BHP Chair of Australian Studies and addresses a different theme with new speakers each year. programme as a high-level collaboration between Peking University and the Australian Government. The Centre Professor McCarthy holds a Personal Chair of Australian Politics administers Australian Studies courses, organises conferences, at the University of Western Australia. His main research such as the annual FASIC conference and roundtables, and interests and extensive publications are on Australian politics hosts the FASIC internship program in collaboration with a and political culture. His research focuses on transitional range of Australia’s leading universities and the Australia China change within and between nations, exploring how material, Youth Association. cultural and political forces create instability and how nations, institutions and people adapt to uncertainty. His seminal book Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australia, analysed the dynamic relations between global financial change and its dramatic effect on public banking in Australia. Foundation The Foundation for Australian Studies in China (FASIC) is For Australian a not-for-profit organisation registered in Australia. FASIC Recently, Professor McCarthy has written on the Studies In China supports existing and future initiatives which deepen awareness internationalisation of Australian higher education effected by of Australia in China across a range of disciplines and fields Chinese students studying in Australia, and the steady growth of study. FASIC plays a significant role in the promotion of of Australian students studying in China. He has also explored Australian Studies in China and looks to further expand the political implications of the conversion of Australian higher and strengthen research and teaching collaboration between education from an elite to a mass education system. In addition, Australian and Chinese universities. FASIC provides grants he has investigated the international relationship between and scholarships to Australian and Chinese professionals. A Australia and China as read through the policies of contemporary key initiative of the Foundation is the BHP Chair of Australian Australian governments. Studies at Peking University.

FASIC is supported by BHP, the Australia-China Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and HHK Advisory.

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Conference Venue Hanyuan (Yunlong Conference Hotel General Conference Campus) Hotel Enquiries

Conference Hall, Collaborative Hanyuan Hotel, 246 Jiefang South Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 58 John Paul Grima Innovation Center of Language Road, Xuzhou Pengzu Avenue, Xuzhou, Jiangsu [email protected] Competence, Jiangsu Normal Province University (Yunlong Campus) Ph: +86 (0516) 87889999 +86 1771 0383 551 Ph: +86-516-83289999 汉园宾馆 江苏师范大学云龙校区 徐州市解放南路 246 号 江苏省徐州市新城区 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 彭祖大道 58 号 Hanyuan Hotel Multifunction Lecture 徐州绿地皇冠假日酒店 Hall

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Pre-Conference Day 1 Events 8:30-9:00am 9:00-9:40am 9:40-10:00am

Registration Official Welcome Conference Photo

6:00-8:00pm Conference Hall, Collaborative Professor Zhang Wende, Dean of Entrance of the Conference Hall Innovation Center of Language the School of History of Jiangsu Collaborative innovation center of Welcome Cocktail Function Competence Normal University (MC) Language Competence (organised and sponsored by FASIC, by 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 语言能力协同创新报告厅 invitation only) Mr Graeme Meehan, Australian Consul-General in Shanghai Location: Multifunction Room 6 Crowne Plaza Hotel, 58 Pengzu Avenue, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province Professor Zhou Ruguang, President of Jiangsu Normal 江苏省徐州市新城区彭祖大道 58 号 University 10:00-10:20am 徐州绿地皇冠假日酒店多功能厅 6 Professor Cen Hong, Deputy Secretary of Jiangsu Normal Morning Tea University

Professor Gregory McCarthy, BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University

Professor Sun Youzhong, President of Chinese Association for Australian Studies

Professor Zhang Qiusheng, Director of Australian Studies Centre at Jiangsu Normal University

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Day 1

10:20-12:20pm 12:20-1:30pm 1:30-3:00pm 1:30-3:00pm 3:00-3:30pm

Welcome Plenary: Lunch Panel 1 Panel 2 Afternoon Tea Transnational Governance and Language and Connectivity One – Space, Transnational Transnational place, perspective Connectivity Connectivity

Professor Gregory McCarthy, BHP Han Yuan Hotel Restaurant Professor Haig Patapan, Professor Peng Qinglong, Chair of Australian Studies at 246 Jiefang Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Griffith University, Leadership Shanghai Jiaotong, On Studies Peking University (Chair) Province in Political Transitions: of Australian Literature in Magnanimous Leadership at China (1949-2017) Dr Linda Jakobson, China Matters, 徐州市解放南路 246 号 the Australian Founding China Matters: Getting it Right for Professor Wang Jinghui, Australia Professor Colin Mackerras, Tsinghua University, Chinese Griffith University, Australia- Perspective on the Slap Professor Peter Hutchings, Western China Relations Under Sydney University, From Market Malcolm Turnbull Professor Wenche Ommundsen, Gardens to Shopping Malls: University of Wollongong, Transnational Connections Over Time Professor Paul Pickering, Words in the Dark: Language Australian National University, and the Diasporic Writer Professor Chen Hong, East China Visions of China: An Historical Normal University, China Australia Perspective Professor Megumi Kato, Meisei Relations: Affluence, Influence and University, Connectivity in Soft Power Professor Chen Xiaolv, Nanjing Literature: Australia-China-Japan University, On Brexit Hanyuan Hotel Multifunction Conference Hall, Collaborative Conference Hall, Collaborative Lecture Hall Innovation Center of Language Innovation Center of Language Competence Competence 汉园宾馆多功能报告厅

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13 2nd November Evening 3rd November Morning

Day 1 Day 2

3:30-5:00pm 3:30-5:00pm 6:00-9:30pm 9:00-10:30am 9:00-10:30am 11:00-12:30pm

Panel 3 Panel 4 Dinner and Cultural Panel 5 Panel 6 Panel 7 Australia-China Transnational Performance Australia and China in Transnational Connectivity: Relations: Transnational Representations One (hosted by Jiangsu Normal a Contested Region Representations Two Catalyst for Change University, by invitation only) Perspectives

Professor Kee Pookong, Associate Professor Li Ya, Buses will depart from Han Yuan Professor Zha Daojiong, Professor Wendy Bowcher, Sun Professor Masaru Kagatsume, University of Melbourne, Sichuan Normal University, Hotel Car Park, Jiangsu Normal Peking University, Oceans Yat-sen University, Enter Cheon or Kyoto University, International People-to-People Connectivity Comparative Literature in University at 5:00pm Apart? China, Australia and the “Jolliest Old Josser”: Portrayals Connectivity among Australia, in Australia’s Evolving Relations Education Maritime Order in the Asia of Chinese in Film Adaptations of China and Japan through with China Pacific Australian Literature: A Focus on Environmental Resource Issues Professor Chang Chenguang, We of the Never Never Professor Mark Beeson, Sun Yatsen University, Professor Zhang Jian, Dr James Oswald, Central University of Western Australia, Language Policies: a University of New South Dr Nicole Talmacs, Xi’an Jiaotong- Compilation and Translation Negotiating Sino-Australian Comparison between China Wales, Australia’s Shifting Liverpool University, Chinese Films Bureau, The Origins of Relations and Australia Approach to the South China and Australian Audiences Ecological Civilisation Sea Disputes: Implications for Professor Gao Mobo, University Professor Li Jingyan, Harbin Australia-China-US relations Professor Clive Barstow, Edith Dr Nobuaki Fujioka, Shizuoka of Adelaide, Sino-Australia Institute of Technology, Cowan University, Towards University, Significance and Relations in 21st Century Developing Chinese Language Dr Priya Chacko, University Trialectic Space: An Experiment Potential Pitfalls of Youth Competence in Australia: of Adelaide, Drivers and in Cultural Misunderstanding and Exchange Schemes: Lessons Professor Gregory McCarthy Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Reactions to the Belt and Dis-orientation from the Australia-Japan (PKU) and Professor Kanishka Road Initiative Working Holiday Progra Jaysuriya, Murdoch University, Professor Chen Guosheng, Dr Maria Indelicato, Zhejiang Structural Coupling and the RMIT University, Chinese in Professor Han Feng, Chinese University, The Legacy of Yellow Dr Xie Xiaoxiao, Shanghai Politics of Australia-China the Formation of Australian Academy of Social Science, Peril: Cold War Epistemology, University, More Than Just a Higher Education Multicultural Society China and Australia Relations Academic Panic and the ‘Chinese’ “Monopoly Theory”: a Case in Transition International Student Study of Australian “fellow- Conference Hall, Collaborative Hanyuan Hotel Multifunction travellers” to Mao’s China Innovation Center of Language Lecture Hall Conference Hall, Collaborative Hanyuan Hotel Multifunction Lecture Hall Competence Innovation Center of Language Conference Hall, Collaborative Competence Innovation Center of Language 汉园宾馆多功能报告厅 汉园宾馆多功能报告厅 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 Competence 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 10:30-11:00am 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 Morning Tea 15 3rd November Afternoon 3rd November Afternoon

Day 2 11:00-12:30pm 1:30-3:00pm 1:30-3:00pm 3:30-4:15pm

Panel 8 Panel 9 Panel 10 Panel 11 Exploring: Roundtable: Language and Belt and Road One Transnational Australian Studies Transnational Representations and Research Connectivity Two Three Prospects

Dr Xu Daozhi, University of Dr Amanda Barry, Australian Professor Zhan Chunjuan, Anhui Dr Jeffrey Wilson, Murdoch Hong Kong, Narratives of Asian National University (Chair) University, Memory and Reconstruction University, The Evolution of Invasion and Hero Formation of History in Contemporary White China’s Asian Infrastructure in Aboriginal Writings Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Australian Novels Investment Bank initiative: The University of Melbourne From a Revisionist to Status-quo Mr Li Jianjun, Beijing Foreign Professor Li Yao, Beijing Foreign Studies Agenda Studies University, The Four Professor David Carter, The University and Associate Professor Su Australian Plays in China in University of Queensland Rina, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Ms Elena Collinson, Australia the 1950s A Review of the Australian Writers’ Week, China Relations Institute, Professor Shinsuke Minamide, 2007-2017 Australian Response to Belt and Dr Huang Zhong, Wuhan Otemon Gakuin University Road Initiatives University, ‘Masculinity in Associate Professor Yang Yongchun, Crisis’ – Images of Chinese Men Ms Katherine Vickers, University of Shanghai for Science Ms Liu Xinrui, Beijing Foreign in Fiction by Male Chinese Australian Embassy Beijing and Technology, The Contribution Studies University, Australian Australian Writers of Wheatbelt Literature to Australian Media Representation of Conference Hall, Collaborative Literature Chinese Real Estate Investment Dr Yan Ting, Jiangsu Normal Innovation Center of Language in Australia Competence University, Emigration and Mr Julien Leyre, Monash University, Return Migration Marco Polo Translation Club– Dr Li Haijian, Jiangsu Normal 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 Collaborative Translation as a Support to University, Research on Sino- Hanyuan Hotel Multifunction Train Cross-cultural Awareness, Empathy Australian Tourism and Trade Lecture Hall and Collaboration in Peer-learning Interaction Contexts 汉园宾馆多功能报告厅 Conference Hall, Collaborative Hanyuan Hotel Multifunction Lecture Hall Innovation Center of Language Competence

12:30-1:30pm 汉园宾馆多功能报告厅 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 Lunch 3:00-3:30pm 17 Afternoon Tea 3rd November Evening 3rd November Evening

Day 2

3:30-4:15pm 4:15-5:15pm 5:15-5:45pm 6:30-8:30pm

Panel 12 Panel 13 Closing Remarks & Conference History and Diaspora Belt and Road Two Student Recognition Banquet Ceremony (by invitation only) Private Restaurant

Dr Nathalie Nguyen, Monash Mr Craig Aldous, Australian Mr Kevin Hobgood-Brown AM, 1 Lake West Road, Quanshan University, Recognising War Chamber of Commerce Chairman of the Foundation for District, Xuzhou, New Century Grand Hotel Service: Australian Government Shanghai Australian Studies in China Policy towards Vietnamese 徐州市泉山区湖西路 1 号 Veterans Mr Rowan Callick, Author and Ms Maree Ringland, Cultural China Correspondent, The 徐州开元名都酒店 Counsellor at the Australian Dr Michael Williams, Western Australian Embassy Beijing Sydney University, Beyond the Nation – the Case of Zhongshan Associate Professor Hu Dan, City and the City of Sydney Beijing Foreign Studies Professor Cen Hong, Deputy University, Australia’s Wine Secretary of Jiangsu Normal Dr Chen Bing, Peking Export to China Post-ChAFTA: University University, G. E. Morrison Stories Untold and Perspectives and the “Cantonese Gang” in Unexplored Professor Liu Shusen, Director Chinese Central Government of Peking University Australian During the Late Imperial and Dr Shen Yujia, Sun Yatsen Studies Centre Early Republic Era University, The Development Outlook of Bilateral FDI after Mr Li Jianjun, Secretary- Professor Zhang Wei, Shantou ChAFTA University, The Role of W.H. General of the Chinese Donald in Xi’an Incident of Association for Australian 1936 Conference Hall, Collaborative Studies Innovation Center of Language Hanyuan Hotel Multifunction Competence Conference Hall, Collaborative Lecture Hall Innovation Center of Language 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 Competence 汉园宾馆多功能报告厅 语言能力协同创新中心报告厅 19 Speakers Mr Craig Aldous

Craig first came to China in beef business, Hancock 1992 on a language scholarship Agriculture. He is tasked with and for the past 22 years has establishing global markets led companies in the food, and setting the strategic beverage and agriculture marketing plan. He has been sectors. As CEO China and an AustCham Shanghai Vietnam, he transformed Elders Director since 2012 and Professor Clive Barstow Agribusiness into a profitable Chairman since 2016. He holds food service distribution a Griffith University degree Professor Clive Barstow (BA His work is held in a number business. In 2017, Craig started in International Business and Hons, MA, PhD) is Executive of collections, including the as President of Sales and speaks and reads Chinese. Dean of Arts & Humanities Musse National d'Art Modern Marketing of Gina Rinehart’s at Edith Cowan University Pompidou Centre Paris. and Honorary Professor at the Clive is Vice President of the University of Shanghai Science Australian Council of Deans and Technology China. Clive is and Directors of Creative Arts, a practicing artist and writer. and Director of the Open Bite His profile includes thirty years Australia, which empowers Dr Amanda Barry of international exhibitions artists in remote Aboriginal and publications in Europe, communities. Dr Amanda Barry is the Amanda holds an award- America, Asia and Australia. founding Director of winning Ph.D. in Australian the Australian National Indigenous history from the University’s China Liaison University of Melbourne and Office (established March has published, presented and 2017) and is responsible for taught internationally. Since Professor Mark Beeson deepening and strengthening moving to Beijing in 2005 the university’s China she has worked in higher Professor Mark Beeson is the broadly conceived Asia- engagement across multiple education, cultural diplomacy, Professor of International Pacific region. He the founding research partnerships as business consulting and the Politics at the University of editor of Critical Studies of well as through student arts including at the Australian Western Australia. Before the Asia Pacific. He is the sole pathways, alumni relations Embassy, Peking University, joining UWA, he taught at or co-author of 6 books; 16 and industry engagement. the Foundation for Australian Murdoch, Griffith, Queensland, edited books/special; many Amanda was previously Studies in China and The York (UK) and Birmingham, editions of journals; over 90 Director of Academics Beijing Center. where he was also head journal articles; over 70 book at The Beijing Center, a of department. His work chapters and 100s of sundry research, education and study is centred on the politics, publications. abroad program at Beijing’s economics and security of University of International Business and Economics. 23 Professor Wendy L. Bowcher

Professor Wendy L. Bowcher texts, and works of art such is a Professor of Linguistics, as statues. She is editor or Professor David Carter Director of the Functional co-editor of the following Linguistics Institute, and volumes: New Directions in Professor David Carter is Dispossession, Dreams and Deputy Director of the Centre the Analysis of Multimodal Professor of Australian Diversity: Issues in Australian for Australian Studies at Sun Discourse, Multimodal Texts Literature and Cultural History Studies (2006) and Always Yat-sen University. Wendy around the Word: Cultural and at the University of Queensland Almost Modern: Australian completed her PhD at the Linguistic Insights, Society and a founding board Print Cultures and Modernity University of Liverpool in Language, Language in member of the Foundation for (2013). His most recent book, focusing on the discourse of Society: Essays in honour of Australian Studies in China. He Australian Books and Authors Australian Rugby League sports Ruqaiya Hasan, and Systemic was manager of the Australian in the American Marketplace, commentating. Her more recent Phonology: Recent Studies Studies in China program will be released in December research involves investigating in English. She is currently for Australia’s Department of 2017. issues in linguistic theory and co-editing the Cambridge Foreign Affairs from 2002 to conducting social semiotic Handbook of Systemic 2016. His publications include multimodal analyses of Functional Linguistics. advertising texts, literacy

Professor Chang Chenguang

Professor Chang Chenguang Changsen and Henry Tsang, earned his PhD in functional Sun Yat-sen University Press Mr Rowan Callick linguistics at Sun Yat-sen 2012), and Languages and University. He has been Cultures in Australia (with Mr Rowan Callick graduated Asia-Pacific Editor, and teaching at Sun Yat-sen since Yu Changsen, Sun Yat-sen BA Honours from Exeter returned to Beijing as China 1989. His research interests University Press 2014). Apart University, England. He Correspondent in March 2016. include Functional Linguistics, from his publications, he worked as a journalist and He has been a member of the Discourse Analysis, Language is co-editor of the journal publisher in Papua New Foreign Minister's Foreign Education, and Australian Functional Linguistics Guinea for 10 years, then for Affairs Council, and is a Fellow Studies, and has published (Springer), Annual Review of 20 years for The Australian of the Australian Institute of over 40 journal articles and Functional Linguistics (Higher Financial Review, including International Affairs. He has book chapters, and over Education Press). He is now as Hong Kong based China won the Graham Perkin Award a dozen books and edited serving as Dean of the School Correspondent from 1996- for Australian Journalist of the volumes in these areas. His of International Studies and 2000. He joined The Australian Year, and two Walkley Awards, recent publications in relation Director of the Centre for as China Correspondent from for coverage of Hong Kong and to Australian studies include Australian Studies, Sun Yat-sen 2006-2009 in Beijing, then of China. China-Australia Relations: University. became Melbourne based towards a Community with Shared Interests (with Yu 25 Professor Chen Xiaolv

Professor Chen Xiaolv was and continued his research. born in Chengdu, Sichuan At present, as Professor of Dr Chen Bing province. He studied for a the History department and B.A. in foreign language at doctoral supervisor, he is a Dr. Bing Chen is an assistant experiences in China. Her Sichuan Normal University. Leading Scholars in World professor at the School of book China Redefined—G. E. After finishing B.A. studies, History, the Vice President Foreign Languages at Peking Morrison’s China Reports of the he became the postgraduate of China British History University (PKU). Her field Late Imperial China (1897— of Professor Jiang Mengyin, a Association, the President of interest is English non- 1912) was published in March Chinese prestigious scholar on of Jiang Su World History fictional writing about China 2017. She is currently working British studies, and received Association, the Director of by the western sojourners in on the translation of Morrison’s his M.A. of History in 1985 the EU Centre at Nanjing China. In recent years she reports into Chinese and has and Ph.D. in 1988 at Nanjing University and the platform has particularly focused her recently conducted a research University. Being a teaching Director of Chinese National research on the journalistic trip to the Mitchell Library in staff of history department Collaborative Innovation reports written by G. E. Sydney. since 1988, he went to Center for the South China Morrison during the late Grinnell College, and later Sea. imperial times and also his Yale University and Sussex University as a visiting scholar

Professor Chen Hong Professor Chen Guosheng

Professor Chen Hong is Chair China. Chen Hong’s research Professor Guosheng Chen is community development. She of Department of English interests include China the Director of the Australia- is a frequent speaker for the Language and Literature, and Australia relations, Australian China Studies Forum and an media and at major events Director of the Australian culture and Australian Honorary University Fellow in Australia and overseas, in Studies Centre at East literature. He is author and at RMIT University. She has particular in China. Topics China Normal University in co-author of several books over 40 years of leadership cover politics, education, Shanghai. He is also Executive on Australian Studies such and management experience citizenship, international Vice President of the National as Contemporary Australian in education ranging from affairs and community Association of Australian Society, From Isolation to the tertiary teaching and research, collaborations for a sustainable Studies in China, Editor- World: Australian Culture in professional development, Australian multicultural in-Chief of the Website of Review, and Australian Literary business consultation and society. Guosheng strongly Australian Studies in China, Criticism (Australia China community development advocates for culture and and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Council Book Prize, 2008), and at local and international education, bringing together of The Journal of Studies of Chinese translator of David levels. Her research includes local and international Australian Culture, and Journal Marr’s Patrick White: A Life. language and culture professionals and professional of Australian Studies in education, internationalisation groups. of education and social/

27 Ms Elena Collinson Professor Mobo Gao

Ms Elena Collinson is Senate offices, at state and Professor Mobo Gao attended Senior Project and Research federal levels. She moved before he Officer at the Australia- to Sydney from Hong Kong undertook studies at various China Relations Institute, and has also been based in universities including Wales, University of Technology Tokyo, Manila, Stockholm and Westminster, and Cambridge Sydney. Elena holds a Bachelor London. Her research interests and completing his Master and of Laws and a Bachelor of include Australia's China doctorate degrees at Essex. He International Studies with a policy, the US-China-Australia worked at various universities major in Government from the relationship, the South China including Tsinghua, Oxford University of Sydney. She has Sea and Chinese investment in and Harvard. His publications previously held research and Australia. include several books and project positions in Australian numerous book chapters and departmental, ministerial and articles. One of his books, Gao Village, is a case study of the village that he came from, and a sequel to which Whither Professor Kate Darian-Smith Rural China: the Case of Gao Village to be published by the Professor Kate Darian-Smith is histories, including studies Chinese University of Hong Professor of Australian Studies of war, childhood, media, Kong is to appear soon. His and History, Faculty of Arts and migration, memory and forthcoming book Constructing Professor of Cultural Heritage, heritage. Kate is a Fellow China: Clashing Views of the Faculty of Architecture, of the Academy of Social People’s Republic by Pluto is, Building and Planning, Sciences in Australia and an in many ways, a sequel to the University of Melbourne. editor of Australian Historical Battle of China's Past: Mao and In 2018, she commences as Studies. Kate has a long-term the and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Arts, association with Australian Remembering Socialist China Law and Education at the Studies internationally, 1949 – 1976. . Her including in China, where research interests, numerous she is a member of FASIC’s publications and Australian Education Committee. Research Council grants span Australian and imperial 29 Professor Han Feng Kevin Hobgood-Brown AM

Professor Han Feng was Institute of International Mr. Hobgood-Brown AM is the the Australia-China Council the Senior Research Fellow Strategy (NIIS Dec. 2010-April, Chairman of the Foundation from 2006 to 2012. He was (Professor) of National 2017) respectively. He was the after serving as its first the Chairman of the Australia Institute of International Deputy Director-General from Managing Director. He also China Business Council from Strategy (NIIS) at the Chinese 2001-2016 in IAPS and NIIS. serves as the Managing Director 2005 to 2008, having served Academy of Social Sciences His research areas are mainly of HHK Advisory, a corporate on the Board of Directors of (CASS). He graduated from the in the current international advisory firm that provides the ACBC since 1999. He Department of International relations in the Asia-Pacific strategic corporate advice on is a member of the Panel of Politics, Peking University in region, the relations among resource transactions. He has Advisors to the China Studies 1982. Since 1984, he has been the ASEAN nations and over 30 years of management Centre of Sydney University. working in CASS in Institute with outside powers and the and legal experience in the Mr. Hobgood-Brown AM taught of World Economics and regional security, and Australia Asia Pacific region and has at the Law School of Peking Politics (Oct. 1986-Dec. 1988), studies. been based in Sydney since University from 1983 to 1987. in the Institute of Asia-Pacific 1996. Mr. Hobgood-Brown AM Studies (IAPS Dec. 1988- was the Deputy Chairman of Nov. 2010), and in National

Professor Nobuaki Fujioka Dr Huang Zhong

Nobuaki Fujioka is a lecturer Dr Huang Zhong is Associate scholar at Brock University in at the Faculty of Informatics, Professor in English Literatures Canada (08/2003-08/2004) and Shizuoka and director of the Australian honorary research fellow at University, Japan. He has Studies Centre at Wuhan the University of Wollongong conducted extensive survey University in China. He (09/2012-11/2014). His research research into received his Bachelor’s degree areas include diasporic Japanese working holiday in English literature from Chinese literature, Australian makers to Australia and has Sichuan University, Master’s literature and gender studies. been a visiting degree in English literature He has published in JASAL, scholar at Monash University, from Wuhan University and Journal of Postcolonial Writing Australia. PhD in Australian literature and Antipodes. from the University of Wollongong. He was a visiting

31 Assistant Professor Hu Dan Professor Peter Hutchings

Assistant Professor Hu Dan Professor Peter Hutchings and international refereed teaches “Australian Economy is the Dean of the School journals as well as in the and Its Economic Relations of Humanities and mainstream print media, with China”, the only course Communication Arts at and he is the author of The in China featuring Australian Western Sydney University. Criminal Spectre in Law, economy, comparing Previously, he has worked Literature and Aesthetics: Australian and Chinese at the University of Sydney, Incriminating Subjects (London economies and regulatory and the University of Hong & New York: Routledge, 2001). systems and examining key Kong. His research interests Currently, he is researching issues in bilateral economics. are in the arts, cinema, critical issues of sovereignty and She has chaired or participated legal studies, literature, and cinema in the post-9/11 period. in several projects on China- philosophy. His publications Australia economic relations, have appeared in Australian with funding from the National Social Sciences Fund, Ministry of Education and Foundation on Australian Studies in China. Her PhD thesis examines China's investment during Dr Maria Elena Indelicato the Labor government and the latter's foreign direct Dr Maria Elena Indelicato is a ‘Asian’ international students investment policy and Lecturer in Media Studies at the while approaching the latter approach towards China. She Ningbo Institute of Technology, as subjects of the Australian was delegate to both the 2015 Zhejiang University, China. border. Her work has been also China Australia Millennial She received her Ph.D. from published in feminist, race and Project and Australia-China the Department of Gender and cultural studies journals such Youth Dialogue (FASIC Fellow) Cultural Studies, University as Outskirts: Feminisms along and has been an active media of Sydney, Australia. In her the Edge, Critical Race and commentator on Australia- recently published monograph Whiteness Studies, Chinese related issues. Australia’s New Migrants, she Cinemas, and Inter-Asia examines the intersections of Cultural Studies. race and emotions in Australian public discourses regarding

33 Dr Linda Jakobson

Dr Jakobson has been a student director (at the Finnish Institute of Chinese politics and China’s of International Affairs, foreign and security policy for Stockholm International Peace the past three decades. She is Research Institute (SIPRI), internationally known for her and the Lowy Institute for publications about China’s International Policy). She has foreign policy. Her China- served as a policy advisor on related career includes posts China-related issues to the Professor Masaru Kagatsume as a teacher (at the Shandong president, prime minister, Institute of Economics in or foreign minister in seven Professor Masaru Kagatsume is University, New Zealand China), a lecturer (at Hong countries. In 2017 Jakobson a Professor Emeritus at Kyoto (1980-82) and in Queensland Kong City University), a was invited to join the board of University. He holds a PhD University, Australia (1978). foreign correspondent (in the new Diplomatic Academy degree from Kyoto University, He was awarded the academic Beijing), a visiting professor of the Department of Foreign 1988. He had been a Professor prize by Japanese Society of (at Sydney University), and Affairs and Trade. of Natural Resource Economics, Rural Economics in 1994. He senior researcher and program Kyoto University from 1995 was the president of both the to 2015. He had worked as a Oceanian Economic Studies visiting Research Fellow in Society and the Regional Rural New South Wales University Economics Society. (Australia) for 3 years from Professor Kanishka Jaysuriya 2009, also in Canterbury Professor Kanishka Jayasuriya, Centre (IPGRC) and Professor is currently Professor of Politics of International Politics. He and International Studies, has held teaching and research Discipline leaser of politics appointments in several Professor Megumi Kato group and Fellow of the Asia Australian and overseas Professor Megumi Kato is a 2008) and its Japanese version Research Centre at Murdoch universities including the professor at Meisei University published in Tokyo in 2013. University. Prior to his current ANU, the University of Sydney, in Tokyo where she teaches Her current research interests appointment in 2016 he was Murdoch University, National English and cultural studies. focus on representations of Professor of International University of Singapore, and Her publications include minority groups in Australian politics and Director of Indo- City University of Hong Kong. Narrating the Other: Australian literature and their ethical and Pacific Governance Research Literary Perceptions of Japan educational significance. (Monash University Press,

35 Professor Kee Pookong Dr Li Haijian

Professor Pookong Kee is the Australian Public Service for Dr. Li Haijian Works at School satisfaction of mainland Director of the Asia Institute at a period, serving as Assistant of History Culture and Tourism, tourists in Cairns. Being in the University of Melbourne. Director of the Bureau of Jiangsu Normal University, charge of the National Social He was previously Professor Immigration and Population Lecturer, PH.D in regional Science Fund publication, of the Graduate School of Research. His recent teaching economics, main research Research on the driving effect Asia Pacific Studies at the and research interests include includes tourism economy and mechanism of outbound Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific the causes, processes and and knowledge sharing. Study tourism on international trade University in Japan, and consequences of the global at James Cook University as in China background of the Director of the Chinese movement of people, Asian visitor for one year in 2014, Belt and Road Initiatives (2017- Heritage Centre in Singapore. diasporas, and Asian-Pacific completed the research of 2019). He was with the Senior affairs generally. motivation, perception and Executive Service of the

Mr Julien Leyre Professor Li Jingyan

Julien Leyre is a French- universities and community Professor Professor ProfLi she studied short-term in Australian writer, educator groups. He is currently enrolled Jingyan is a Professor at the New York University and The and community builder. After in a PhD at Monash University School of Foreign Languages of Napoli Oriental University. studies at Ecole Normale researching digital Chinese Harbin Institute of Technology, Her research interests Superieure in Paris, he taught language learning, and works where she is the Executive include foreign language linguistics at the Sorbonne, as Editor-in-Chief with the Director of the Australian pedagogy, Australian Studies, and published a short novel. Global Challenges Foundation Studies Centre. She holds intercultural communication, In 2008, he migrated to in Stockholm. In 2016, he a Doctor of Education in translation studies and Melbourne, where he has was listed on the Victorian Language, Literacy and American Studies. She has worked across education, Multicultural Honour Roll and Arts from the University of published in English and culture and digital innovation. in 2017, was awarded the title Melbourne, where she had Chinese in China, Australia, In 2011, he founded Marco of New Australian of the Year. been a visiting academic, the US, the UK and Germany. Polo Project, a cross-cultural He likes to listen and look for honorary fellow and Senior education design agency common ground. Research Associate. As well, working with schools,

37 Associate Professor Li Ya

Li Ya is Executive Director in Endangered Minority Oral the Australian Studies Centre Heritage in Mainland China: at Sichuan Normal University, with special case studies on Associate Professor Li Jianjun where she serves as Associate the Tibetan communities, Associate Professor Li Jianjun Professor in the School of she has then been involved is Director of the Australian Education. She holds a PhD with the theory and practice Studies Centre at Beijing in Multicultural Education of multilingual education Foreign Studies University from Southwest University for the Minorities in China, and Secretary-General of (2011) and gained Endeavour multicultural teacher training the Chinese Association Cheung Kong Awards in 2013. in China and Australia Studies. for Australian Studies. He Ever since gaining a PhD on was a Visiting Scholar at Griffith University in 2002 and a Visiting Research Fellow at Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London in 2016. His publications include papers on Professor Li Yao Christina Stead and two edited books Australia Through the Professor Li Yao is Visiting the Australia-China Council’s Eyes of the Chinese (2009) and Professor of Australian Studies inaugural Translation Prize in Blue Book of Australia: Annual Centre, Beijing Foreign Studies 1996 for The Ancestor Game Report on Development of University. He is Doctor by Alex Miller, and won it Australia (2015-2016). In 2015 of Letters (honoris causa) again in 2012 for Carpentaria he was awarded the inaugural awarded by the University by Alexis Wright, both Miles Professor Hu Zhuanglin of Sydney, Senior Translator, Franklin-winning novels. He Distinguished Translator member of the Chinese Writers’ was awarded the Council’s Fellowship hosted by the Association and has served as a Golden Medallion in 2008 for Australian Studies Centre at council member of the Chinese his distinguished contribution Peking University. He teaches Association for Australian in the field of Australian Australian literature at Beijing Studies since its establishment literary translation in China. Foreign Studies University. His in 1988. His publication His current translation project current research is Australian include: Patrick White’s The is Australian Indigenous literature in Chinese translation Tree of Man, A Fringe of Leaves Literature and Culture. in the 1950s and 1960s. and Flaws in the Glass. He won

39 Professor Shinsuke Minamide

Professor Shinsuke Minamide Japan. From 2003-2010 he was born in Kobe, Japan in was Director of the Center for Professor Colin Mackerras 1953. In 1977 he received a Australian Studies of OGU. Master's degree (letters) at His area of interest covers the Professor Colin Mackerras and tourism purposes. He Kyoto University. In 1987 he historical geography of port is a Fellow of the Australian has written or edited over 40 became the Associate Professor cities in Japn, Australia, and Academy of the Humanities books and authored nearly 200 at Otemon Gakuin University Asian countries. and an Officer in the Order of scholarly papers. (OGU) in Osaka Prefecture, Australia, and won a Chinese- government “Friendship Award” 友谊奖 in 2014. His PhD was on the rise of the Peking Opera (Australian National University, 1970). He is a specialist on Chinese Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen history, culture and ethnic Associate Professor Nathalie is the author of 4 books and minorities, as well as Australia- Nguyen is Director of the the editor of New Perceptions China relations and Western National Centre for Australian of the Vietnam War and images of China, and has Studies at Monash University. Special Issues of the journals published widely on all A graduate of Oxford, her work Crossroads and Intersections. those subjects. He worked deals with memory, migration Her book Memory is Another at Griffith University from and war. She won 4 major Country: Women of the 1974 to 2004 and has been fellowships in 2005-15: an ARC Vietnamese Diaspora (2009) a professor Emeritus at the Future Fellowship (2011-15), won international recognition University since retirement. an ARC Australian Research as a 2010 Choice Outstanding He has also worked frequently Fellowship (2005-10), a 2007 Academic Title. Her latest book at the Renmin University, Harold White Fellowship is South Vietnamese Soldiers: Beijing and Beijing Foreign at the National Library of Memories of the Vietnam War Studies University. He has Australia, and a 2011 Visiting and After (2016). visited China over 70 times for Fellowship at Oxford. She research, teaching, conferences 41 Professor Haig Patapan

Professor Haig Patapan is Public Administration, the the Director of the Centre for Mayer Prize by the Australian Governance and Public Policy Political Studies Association, and Professor in the School of an Australian Prime Ministers Government and International Centre Fellowship, a Senior Relations, Griffith University. Fulbright Scholarship at the His research interests are in Center for Public Leadership, democratic theory and practice, Harvard Kennedy School of Professor Wenche Ommundsen political philosophy, political Government, and most recently leadership and comparative an Isaac Manasseh Meyer Professor Wenche Ommundsen Honours co-ordinator, Head constitutionalism. He has Fellowship at the National joined the University of Postgraduate Studies, Head received a number of awards, University of Singapore. of Wollongong in 2006 of School and Associate Dean including the Mosher Award as Professor of English (Research). She was Dean by the American Society for Literatures. Formerly of Deakin of the Faculty of Arts from University, she has taught and 2009 to 2013. She takes an supervised across a number of active interest in international fields in English, Comparative teaching and research Literature and Cultural collaboration, especially with Professor Peng Qinglong Studies. Wenche has held Chinese partner universities. several positions in university Professor Peng Qinglong is the Comparative Literature and management, including Deputy Dean of the School of Transnational Cultural Studies, Foreign Languages, Director of China Association of Foreign the Center for the Multicultural Literature Studies, China studies and Comparative Association of International Dr James Oswald Literature, and Director of Business English Studies, the ASC at Shanghai Jiaotong Shanghai Association of Dr Oswald hails from Adelaide, focuses on China’s efforts at University. He is a Council International studies, Shanghai and recently completed his environmental remediation, Member of Foreign Languages Association of Foreign PhD studies through the especially where these efforts and Literature of Academic Literature Studies, among Department of Asian Studies at attempt to address the social Degree Committee of China many others. His research the University of Adelaide. He and moral aspects of the State Council and the English areas are primarily centered was recently conferred with a environmental crisis. James Language Teaching Steering on Australian literature, doctorate degree and the Dean’s currently works at the Central Board under the Education comparative literature and award for his dissertation titled Compilation and Translation Ministry of China. He is a Higher Education of Foreign Environmental governance in Bureau as an editor and senior leader in a number Languages and Literature. China: creating ecologically occasional translator for Qiushi of associations including civilised environmental journal. the China Association of subjects. His research 43 Professor Paul Pickering Associate Professor Su Rina Professor Paul Pickering the ANU Centre for European is Director at the Research Studies in 2010-11. Paul is a Associate Professor Su Rina is School of Humanities and the Fellow of the Royal Historical the lecturer and faculty head Arts (2013-). Prior to taking Society, a member of the Board of education and research up this post he was Deputy of the Australian Dictionary section of English Department Director (2010-13), Director of Biography, co-editor of of School of Foreign Languages, of Graduate Studies (2004- the Enlightenment World Inner Mongolia Normal 9) and a Queen Elizabeth Series, Editor of Humanities University, holding MA degree II Fellow at the Humanities Research and History, Editor of in English Language and Research Centre (2000-4). He Cogent: Humanities. In 2012 Literature, Fayetteville State was the Convenor of Graduate he was the recipient of the University, NC, United States Studies in History (2002-6) and Vice Chancellor’s Award for of America. Her research Interdisciplinary and Cross Excellence in Supervision. interests include ESL teaching Cultural Research (2007-13). methodology, American He was inaugural Director of literature and translation. In recent years, she has been very interested in Australian studies. Her recent translation works include an Australian Indigenous children’s work Wandering Girl, which Dr Shen Yujia will be published in 2018. Granted the research project ShenYujia is research fellow in the ChAFTA’s impact on FDI of Australian Society and of the National Centre for between Australia and China. Culture: Curriculum Design Oceania Studies at the Sun Yat- Also, her research includes and Course Development sen University while working comparative and descriptive sponsored by Inner Mongolia as an academic of the School studies of FDI among Asia Normal University, she is the of International Relations of pacific countries. Yujia’s major lecturer developing the the same university. Dr Shen recent publications explore the curriculum and teaching the is a graduate from University development of FDI between course of “Australian Society of Melbourne and completed China and Australia since the and Culture” at the university. her PhD degree in China. Her ChAFTA signed. She also won the award of the current research interests lies Karen Walker Scholars in 2015.

45 Dr Nicole Talmacs

Dr Nicole Talmacs received research project investigates her PhD from the University of global audience reception of Professor Sun Youzhong Sydney (2015) and joined the contemporary commercial School of Film and Television Chinese cinema in light Professor Sun Youzhong is Arts at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool of China’s recent efforts to Vice-President of Beijing University (Suzhou, Jiangsu) internationalise the nation’s Foreign Studies University, as a Lecturer in Media and commercial film industry. The and serves as the president Communications Studies project incorporates reception of the Chinese Association in 2016. She is the author from audiences of Chinese for Australian Studies, the of China’s Cinema of Class: cinema in Australia, UK, USA, Chinese Association for Audiences and Narratives India, Zambia and Kazakhstan. Intercultural Communication, (Routledge 2017). Her current and the Chinese Association for Global Journalism and Communication, respectively. His research interests span Australian studies, Ms Katherine Vickers intercultural communication, American studies, and English Katherine commenced her reforms, and has led the education. He is the author of posting in China in April 2015. Department’s government-to- a number of books including Previously Katherine was government engagement with Decoding China’s Image: A Director of the Strategic Policy China since 2010. Prior to her Comparative Study of the Unit within the Department public service career, Katherine China Reporting by The New of Education and Training’s worked as a senior lecturer and York Times and The Times International Group, where she course convenor in the field 1993-2002; The Symbol of supported the development of media and film theory at American Spirit: John Dewey’s of the National Strategy for Australian National University, Social Thought; Modern International Education and the University of Canberra and American Popular Culture; establishment of the Council Flinders University. Katherine Approaching America; and for International Education. holds a Bachelor of Arts American Cultural Industry. Katherine has contributed to (Honours 1st Class) from He has edited and published a broad range of Australian Flinders University. numerous articles in a number Government policies and of journals at home and abroad, and is the translator of several philosophical works.

47 Professor Wang Jinghui

Professor Wang Jinghui teaches translator of many books on Comparative Literature and cultural studies, as well as Dr Jeffrey Wilson Cultural Studies, is Head of novels by J M Coetzee and Discipline of Comparative Agatha Christie. She is the Dr Jeffrey D. Wilson is a Senior was the inaugural winner of Literature and Cultural author of more than 40 essays Lecturer in International the Australian Institute of Studies, and is Deputy on literature and culture Political Economy in the Asia International Affairs’ Boyer Director of Australian Studies published in the language of Research Centre at Murdoch Prize (2012) for his work on Centre at the Department English, Chinese and Dutch. University. He specialises in the politics of China-Australia of Foreign Languages and She is the author of the economic regionalism and mining investment. His latest Literatures, Tsinghua monograph, Foreigner Forever: resource/energy politics in book is International Resource University. She has presided on J.M. Coetzee (2011), and the the Asia-Pacific. He consults Politics in the Asia Pacific: The over several international latest book she translated from for government on trade, Political Economy of Conflict conferences and lectures, Chinese to English is The Art energy and security policy and Cooperation (Edward as well as national research of Chinese Couplets, published issues; and is a sought- Elgar, 2017). projects. Her researches in the US in 2016. She is after expert commentator on focus on postmodernism, also the First Prize Winner of Asian international affairs multiculturalism, Australian Tsinghua University Teaching in international media. He literature and cultural Contest (2004). translation. She is the

Dr Xie Xiaoxiao

Dr Xiaoxiao Xie is a post- Australia to pursue a Ph.D. Dr Michael Williams doctoral research fellow in in Asian Studies, which he the Department of History, completed in 2016. His main Dr Michael Williams is an Pacific Ports of Sydney, Hawaii Shanghai University. He research interest is Australian historian of the Chinese and San Francisco. His current received his Bachelor and left-wing politics with a special Diaspora and a founding research involves a history Master Degree in History focus on Maoism and Sino- member of the Chinese of popular perceptions of the from Shanghai University, Australian cultural exchanges. Australian Historical Society. Dictation Test, a history of before went to Adelaide, His dissertation at the Chinese Opera in Australia, University of Hong Kong and a comparison of Australia’s employed oral history and pre-1949 Chinese-Australian archival research to examine history with its post-1989 the links of the villages of history. the Pearl River Delta with the

49 Associate Professor Yan Ting

Associate Professor Yan Ting Chinese important journals, is a member of Australian such as Southeast Asian Studies Center of Jiangsu Studies, South Asian Studies, Normal University, who got his and Journal of Overseas Ph.D from Nanjing University Chinese History Studies. At in 2009 and has visited the present, his academic interests Technology University of focus on the issue of Chinese Swinburne in Melbourne for return migration from overseas, Dr Xu Daozhi one year. His main research especially from Australia, area includes the Australian America and Canada, and Dr Xu Daozhi completed her history of immigration, the that of Australian nationality PhD in English literary studies history of America and the policies and immigrant’s status from the University of Hong overseas Chinese. Up to now, identity. Kong in 2016 and now is he has published more than working as a senior research twenty academic articles in assistant at the Faculty of Education, HKU. Her research interests include postcolonial literary studies, cultural Associate Professor Yang Yongchun theories, children’s literature, studies of race and ethnicity. Associate Professor Yang Aboriginal Literature, 2010; She is currently completing Yongchun is Doctor in the Postcolonial Analysis of Kim a monograph Indigenous College of Foreign Languages Scott's Fiction 2014; Summer Cultural Capital in Australian at the University of Shanghai Workshop of Australian Children’s Literature. Her for Science and Technology. Literature, 2017. Funded by articles have appeared in His research area is Australian the Australia China Council, Australian Aboriginal Studies, literature and western literary he traveled to University Papers: Explorations into critical theory and he has of Sydney, University of Children’s Literature, Ilha do participated in many national Queensland, Edith Cowan Desterro,《澳大利亚文化研究》 projects including Australian University, Deakin University (Australian Cultural Studies), novels and colonialism projects to undertake short term visiting and one will soon come out funded by Australia China scholarship to prepare material in Antipodes. She is on the Council and FASIC: Discourse for his PhD dissertation (2011) executive of the International Difference between White and Australian Culture Week at Australian Studies Association Fiction and Aboriginal Fiction, USST (2017). for the year 2017–18. 2008; Identity Recreation of

51 Professor Zha Daojiong Associate Professor Zhan Chunjuan

Professor Zha Daojiong is a Zhan Chunjuan is an Associate Chinese academic journals. professor in the School of Professor in the School She also serves as the chief International Studies, Peking of Foreign Studies, Anhui editor of the AHU-sponsored University. His areas of University (AHU), and the yearly literary journal Oceanic expertise include the politics of Director of Oceanic Literature Literary Studies, the only one China’s international economic Research Institute of AHU- in China devoted to the literary relations, particularly the the very first Institute of its studies on Australian literature, fields of energy and natural kind in China founded in New Zealand literature and resources, development aid and 1979. Her research interests literature of South Pacific the economics-political nexus include Australian literature, countries. in the Asia Pacific region. Australian cultural studies In recent years his research and translation. She has extended to political and social published a number of papers risk management for Chinese on Australian literature in corporations engaged in non- financial investments abroad, including the publication of Professor Zhang Wei an edited volume Chinese Investment Overseas: case Professor of Journalism, Australia (2001), Comparative studies on environmental and Director of Australian Studies Journalism: Methodology social risks (Peking University Centre, Shantou University. and Case Studies (2002), The Press, 2014). Dr. Zha is a Professor Zhang was the Australian Media (2002), Tragic member of the China chapter founding director of the End of Those Elite Journalists of the Council for Security Institute of the International Who Influenced China during Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, Communication Studies at the 20th Century (2012), WH served as inaugural Rio Tinto Nanjing University and is Donald Files: Adventure of an China Fellow at the Lowy currently the director of the Australian in Modern China Institute for International Australian Studies Centre, (2013). He was the winner of Policy, in Sydney, Australia Shantou University. Zhang’s the Australia China Council (2012), and Arthur Ross Fellow major works include Politics Book Prize in 2004, 2010 and at the Center on US-China and Freedom of the Press: 2014. Relations of the Asia Society, a Comparison of Australia in New York (2014). and China (1997), Across

53 Associate Professor Jian Zhang

Jian Zhang is Deputy Head affairs, China’s foreign and of School and an Associate security policies and Australia- Professor in International and China relations. Jian Zhang Political Studies at the School is a member of the Australian of Humanities and Social Committee of the Council for Sciences, UNSW Canberra at Security Cooperation in the the Australian Defence Force Asia Pacific (Aus-CSCAP). Associate Professor Zhong Huang Academy, the University of New South Wales, Australia. Associate Professor Zhong scholar at Brock University in He specialises in Asian security Huang is in English Literatures Canada (08/2003-08/2004) and and director of Australian honorary research fellow at Studies Centre at Wuhan the University of Wollongong University in China. He (09/2012-11/2014). His research received his Bachelor’s degree areas include diasporic Dr Priya Chacko in English literature from Chinese literature, Australian Sichuan University, Master’s literature and gender studies. degree in English literature He has published in JASAL, Dr Priya Chacko is a Senior of postcolonial identity from from Wuhan University and Journal of Postcolonial Writing Lecturer in International 1947 to 2004 (Routledge, 2012) PhD in Australian literature and Antipodes. Politics in the Department and the editor of New Regional from the University of of Politics and International Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Wollongong. He was a visiting Studies at the University of (Routledge, 2016). She has also Adelaide where she teaches published numerous articles in courses and supervises journals such as Modern Asian research on foreign policy Studies, European Journal of and South Asian politics. She International Relations, Review previously held positions of International Studies and at the University of the Journal of Contemporary Asia Witwatersrand, South Africa and opinion articles in The and Victoria University of Hindu, The Conversation and Wellington, New Zealand. East Asia Forum. She is the author of Indian Foreign Policy: The politics

55 Acknowledgements

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Mr John Paul Grima, 5th FASIC Ms Yang Liping, Director 陈昌会 Chen Changhui 杨小敏 Yang Xiaomin Courtesy of Zhou Xiaoping Conference Coordinator of Culture and industry 陈婷婷 Chen Tingting 周悦 Zhou Yue department of JSNU 顾萌 Gu Meng 赵青 Zhao Qing Ms Chloe Dempsey, Assistant 姜雪莉 Jiang Xueli 张玉洁 Zhang Yujie Research Coordinator for BHP Ms Zhang Rongsu, Secretary 鞠梦婷 Ju Mengting 张瑞华 Zhang Ruihua Chair of Australian Studies of Australian Studies Centre of 李莉 Li Li 张雅婷 Zhang Yating JSNU 李恬恬 Li Tiantian 郑伟 Zheng Wei Ms Li Xiaojiao, Senior Public 刘泽庆 Liu Zeqing 周洲 Zhou zhou Affairs and Culture Officer, Ms Yin Ziyu, Office secretary Australian Embassy, Beijing of School of History Culture 皮淑瑶 Pi Shuyao and Tourism of JSNU 任嘉雯 Ren Jiawen Ms Natalie Omond 宋晚 Song Wan Ms Yan Lili, Graduate secretary 施娜 Shi Na Ms Janet Shen of School of History Culture 唐笑笑 Tang Xiaoxiao and Tourism of JSNU 万梦芸 Wan Mengyun Mr Reade Allison 王梦雨 Wang Mengyu Ms Wang Tao, Postgraduate of 王小蒙 Wang Xiaomeng Mr Michael Cheng Liu School of History Culture and 王威 Wang Wei Tourism of JSNU 薛慧云 Xue Huiyun Ms Qi Hong, Secretary of School of History Culture and Tourism of JSNU

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