Chinese Studies NEWSLETTER
Association of Australia (CSAA) CSAA Newsletter Editor: Jon Eugene von Kowallis email: [email protected] The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 Number 25, July 2002 Message from the English, but so do our competitors, interested in the details and in and we have to maximize our particular the recommendations of President advantages and give mainstream the report can purchase it in book students a chance to learn about form from ASAA or find the text on 8th Biennial CSAA Conference in Asia. Dealing with corporate giants the ASAA website. in China, Japan, and other Asian 2003 at UNSW Among the most useful The 8th Biennial Conference of the countries cannot be left only to our local Asian communities. The major recommendations, in my view, is Chinese Studies Association will be the suggestion to upgrade student held from Thursday, 10th July to national newspapers have written and editorialized against these exchange facilities with Asian Saturday, 12th July 2003 at the countries. The existing UMAP University of New South Wales. funding cuts, the Tourism Task Force and the Australian Tourism exchange program is small in scope The Conference Secretariat is now and not always easy to handle for in operation. This newsletter Export Council have made a joint protest and we add our voice, to the Chinese partner universities, not includes a call for papers and panel least because it is modeled on a organisers. Please contact the many other who are concerned about this trend. European exchange scheme. Conference Secreatriat as early as Sending our students to often possible to facilitate planning. As The new ASAA Report responds to unfamiliar environments in Asian for previous CSAA Conferences, this feeling of crisis. It overviews countries is quite different from the there will be no specific conference the situation of Asian Studies at situation of students in Europe. theme. We are planning to follow Australian universitites during the They can study for their degrees in ANU in making the 2003 CSAA last decade and documents different European countries, where Conference a low cost conference developments since the epoch- no expenses were spared to train for participants. making 1989 Ingleson Report, generations of students in European ‘Maximising Australia’s Asia which prepared the ground for a community languages. Knowledge: Repositioning and boom in Asian Studies. The good news is that demand for Chinese Renewal of a National Asset’ is the (continued on Page 2) title of a report commissioned by and Japanese has been fairly steady and demand for Chinese language the Asian Studies Association of CONTENT Australia. One could add a question and Chinese studies subjects is still increasing in some universities. This mark, as its recent launch coincided Jocelyn Chey; "Dai Zhen: A Key report is more modest in scope and with an announcement by the Thinker in Chinese Philosophy" 2 in its recommendations. It warns Federal Government that it would ASAA Report 5 that Australian Asian expertise is withdraw funding from a program Senior Appointments at ANU 9 now in the danger of declining and to support the teaching of Asian Campus Roundup 10 recommends measures to prevent languages in Australian schools. New Publications 16 this from happening. This is a matter of concern, because HSK 2002 17 it sends the wrong signals For the information of our member CSAAMembership 18 domestically and to our Asian we include the Executive Summary Call for Papers 19 neighbours. Australia needs as and the sections that refer directly to Forthcoming Conference 20 much Asian expertise as we can Chinese Studies at Australian muster. Of course it is true that our universities in this issue of the Asian trading partners all speak Newseletter. Members who are
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Jocelyn Chey, Visiting Professor at University of Sydney, has given a lecture in the Key Thinker Lecture Series (5 June 2002) on Dai Zhen (1724 – 1777), a seminal figure in the history of Chinese philosopy. Professor Chey’s lecture focussed on the contributions Dai Zhen brought to the school of ‘evidential research’, also known as the Kaozheng school, in Chinese philosophy, scientific exploration of natural sciences, as well as the relevance of Dai Zhen’s thought to social harmony and cohesion in contemporary society. Professor Chey has kindly edited the original lecture paper and given us permission to reproduce it in this issue of the CSAA Newsletter.
- The Editor Dai Zhen – A Key Thinker in Chinese Philosophy Jocelyn Chey
Dai Zhen 戴 震 (1724-1777) may be and would assist good government. Neo-Confucian ethical system which called a key thinker in the history of Zhu Xi and his successors advocated was built on the concept of Chinese philosophy because he self-improvement, beginning with “goodness” shan 善. He extended attacked the orthodoxy of the time application to study. Eventually a the meaning of goodness to include and those who abused power in the scholar could perfect his nature concepts such as propriety, name of “principle” or “Heaven”. through fully expressing the higher benevolence, wisdom and His work marks the beginning of the principle of the Way of Heaven and righteousness. end of state-supported Confucianism. thus become a sage. Dai criticised Neo-Confucian Neo-Confucianism regarded the Chinese thought was a virtual “obsessions” and condemned the human and natural worlds as one monolithic orthodoxy until the 17th harm their theories inflicted on interdependent and related whole. If century when opposition began to society. He saw no separate spiritual any part of the system was disrupted gather, based on philological realm apart from this material-based the effects would flow throughout research into classical texts. This universe and therefore no possibility society. Zhu Xi 朱 熹 (1130-1200) “evidential research” 考 证 学 of appealing to a superior maintained that there were two active Kaozheng School did not directly disembodied “principle”. He spoke elements in the system: principle li attack Neo-Confucianism but up for small people against 理 and ether, breath or matter qi 气, criticised its emphasis on self- hegemonic rulers and opened up co-existent and interdependent but, cultivation at the expense of possibilities of alternative belief of the two, principle was greater than government and politics. Dai Zhen systems and reform ideas. qi, having moral qualities which lifted their argument to the political determined human and social and philosophical level. His main Dai Zhen’s most outstanding behaviour. Understanding principle objectives were to criticise orthodox personal characteristic was the would help men regulate their lives understanding of principle li and the breadth of his intellectual interests.
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As a young man he built himself an astronomical observatory. His first published work was on the use of In 1775, after a last unsuccessful Kaozheng scholars and encouraged Napier’s rods Ce suan 策 算. He attempt at the jinshi examination, Dai expansion of work in the natural also wrote on the chapter on was awarded the degree by special sciences. technology in the Rites of Zhou Zhou decree and made a member of the Li 周 礼, on the Er ya 尔 雅 and on Imperial Hanlin Academy. He Dai’s study of Mencius expounded the works of Qu Yuan 屈 原. Later continued to work on the Imperial his view of principle li and was a he explained that in his youth he Manuscript Library project for two comprehensive attack on Neo- wanted to understand every aspect of years until his untimely death at the Confucian orthodoxy. He defined Zhou culture in order to grasp the age of 53. Dai had few friends and principle as something abstract, the original meaning of the canonical only one formal disciple, Duan Yucai pattern of things, something that was texts and ultimately “to unravel the 段 玉 裁 (1735-1815). Unfortunately so of necessity – as it were, scientific Dao 道”. To achieve this he had to Duan did not continue his work after law. Like Xunzi, Dai believed the work on “the many difficult aspects his death. Dai’s ideas were only mind was simply a bodily organ. By th of the Classics – things other rediscovered in the late 19 century. expanding his knowledge, a man Confucians chose to disregard”. He could improve himself until he believed that eventually his studies Dai Zhen elaborated his perfected his moral state. Neo- would lead to a vision of “the Great philosophical system in An Confucians described principle li as a Source” Da Ben 大 本 . Evidential Study of the Meaning of kind of inner light implanted by Terms in the ‘Mencius’ (Mengzi ziyi Heaven which gave rise to Dai’s family were not well off and in shuzheng 孟 子 义 疏 证 ), published righteousness and contributed to 1754 he fled to Beijing, because of between 1769-1772, and Inquiry into good social order, while human threats by a local bully. This forced Goodness (Yuan shan 原 善 ), nature and desires without principle move propelled him into new areas published in 1776, the year before his were essentially evil. Dai said this of work and opened up his thinking death. In the Inquiry into Goodness view derived from Buddhism. He in unexpected areas. On the basis of he aimed to present a complete appealed to Mencius and claimed his scientific reputation Dai obtained introduction to the Way of Heaven human nature as a whole was good, employment as a research assistant Dao 道 and the human way and their including all natural inclinations and and later became tutor in several inter-relationship. The Evidential capacities. well-known scholars’ families. Study of the Meaning of Terms in the Having failed the jinshi 进 士 ‘Mencius’ developed his polemic Dai defined goodness as the result of examination on seven attempts, he against the dominant Neo-Confucian the productive force of Heaven never held any civil service ideology and attacked what he overflowing into human activity. He appointment but led a hand-to-mouth regarded as erroneous doctrines contended that the principle li of existence, dependent on salary from derived from the teachings of Zhu Heaven was merely an “intellectual teaching and research projects and Xi, supposed to be based on the line of reasoning” tiao-li 條 理 that even had to borrow money to support views of Mencius and other early might be apprehended by an his family. disciples of Confucius. Since these intelligent mind. This view placed belonged to the orthodox system man and not some spiritual power at In 1773 he was appointed compiler taught in the state-supported the centre of the universe. His theory of the Imperial Manuscript Library education system and upheld by the regarding the apprehension of Siku quan shu 四 库 全 书 and then Emperor and the government, this principle might be described as submitted to the Emperor an edition was a bold attack. “utilitarian” since he advocated of an ancient classic on waterways, “analysis” and “generalisation” and the Shuijing zhu 水 经 注 , based on Dai Zhen’s chief difference with the in his scientific work he used a superior previously unused text. Neo-Confucians was over how to methods close to experimental Controversy arose with some understand the meaning of the Dao. verification and scientific hypothesis. claiming the work was tarnished by Dai relied on his reading of the Book On the other hand, he also believed unauthorised use of an earlier of Changes Yi jing, which he said in general truth, or “abstract published text. This criticism to was simply descriptive of the principles unchanged since ancient some extent affected his reputation physical world, and identified the times” as did orthodox Neo- and he was transferred to a provincial Dao as coterminous with the Confucians. education post. elements of the physical world. Locating the Dao within the material Dai said the moral order of society world, Dai endorsed the work of the reflected cosmological order so that
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there was no inherent conflict endorsing only the principle nature system. His system provided a place between moral imperatives and and condemning the qi nature as evil. for heterodox thought and diversity human nature. People were capable Dai however identified the one of belief and reconsidered today still of making moral choices and of nature of what he called “blood, provides an argument against suppressing unruly desires. The breath and the knowing mind”, all fundamentalisms and political main obstacle to moral behaviour comprised in the Neo-Confucian qi correctness. was lack of self-awareness and nature. He believed that man could understanding. People who did proceed from what was natural ziran Chinese reform scholars hailed the wrong did so because they were to achieve an understanding of what work of Dai Zhen as part of a native ignorant. His metaphysical base for was morally necessary biran and that tradition of “scientific” thought but moral behaviour was not unusual but virtuous conduct would flow from failed to understand the differences he also said that human emotions or this understanding. The “natural” between Kaozheng methodology and desires were not bad in themselves here refers to principles in the natural western science. Reconsidering this and that moral behaviour was a world, and the “necessary” to question, when barriers between hard coherent part of the natural world. principles in human behaviour. This and soft sciences are not as rigid as in was a new philosophical position the 1920s, we may applaud the Dai Zhen’s theory of qi was based on based on Dai's scientific work. He achievements of Dai Zhen and the his understanding of how heavenly encourgaed intellectual exploration Kaozheng school in building a bodies followed constant, calculable of problems in the natural sciences coherent philosophical framework motions. He attacked Neo- which would help to build a picture for scientific exploration of the Confucian dualism and said of the world to inform the natural world. In the history of psychological phenomena stemmed development of society and social Chinese thought, Dai Zhen stands out from qi which was the basic values. in his emphasis on work in the constituent of the physical universe. humanities, social sciences and Human beings were simply part of CONCLUSION natural sciences. He believed that the world of nature not agents of a Dai Zhen's language and concepts detailed examination of history and supernatural power. Like the rest of may seem foreign in this time and contemporary science would reveal the universe they were in a state of place, but his basic concerns are still “principles”, leading eventually to a constant flux. An ideal society was relevant: how to inculcate morality grand pattern emerging, and that one where human desires and and promote cohesion and harmony human affairs could be regulated in emotions were fufilled and expressed in society. Dai Zhen discussed accordance with these principles. If in an orderly way. society rather than the individual. He he were alive today he would surely said the "necessity" of moral norms argue that investigation of the natural Neo-Confucians said that principle li must be based on the "natural" which world remains urgent and that only was primary and existed before qi, includes individual biological needs restoration of ecological balance that but Dai said the two were co-existent as well as the underlying natural will put human society in a right and mutually compatible. Principle world. If we recognise that the Dao is relationship with the Way of Heaven. described merely the internal present in all things, not a separate structure and function of things. It spiritual force, we cannot call natural was what existed in things which human activites "evil". If moral References: must be as they are and cannot be norms are integral to human life, not changed. In the metaphysical world imposed from outside, then they can Cheng Chung-ying, (1971) Tai there was no separation between be extended until they regulate social Chen's Inquiry into Goodness: A principle and matter/breath qi or behaviour. Translation of the Yuan Shan, with between the Way of Heaven and an Introductory Essay, Honolulu: natural phenomena, and in society Dai attacked those who sought to East-West Center Press. there was no separation between impose their ideas on others by principle and human emotions. appealing to an external belief Ann-ping Chin and Mansfield Principle was also to be found in system and talked about “principle” Freeman (1990) Tai Chen on daily human activities and in human and the “Way of Heaven” as if they Mencius: Explorations in Words and desires. were removed from normal human Meaning, New Haven and London: activity. In his system there was no Yale University Press. Neo-Confucian theory opposed superior divine power or belief principle li and matter/breath qi,
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Maximising Australia's Asia Knowledge: Repositioning and Renewal of a National Asset
This is the title of a report commisioned by the ASAA. The authors (John Fitzgerald, Robin Jeffrey, Kama Maclean and Tessa Morris-Suzuki) examine the state of Australia's Asia knowledge over the last decade since the publication of the Ingleson Report in 1989. The report concludes that the targets set by the Ingleson Report have not been reached and the Australia's Asia expertise is experiencing an alarming decline. We have received permission to reprint the sections that might be of most interest to CSAA members below. These are the Executive Summary and the China-related section of the chapter "Languages of Asia". The full report is available as a book from ASAA or on the ASAA website at http://www.uws.edu.au/social/asaa/report.pdf.
- The Editor
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report is neither a celebration effectively and sensitively with the Report (Asia in Australian Higher nor, to say it in Australian, a contries of Asia. Education) in 1988-89. In 2001, whinge. It provides a snapshot of a this report estimates that fewer than national asset - Australia's Asia This is national concern. 5 per cent of undergraduate load in knowledge. It points to areas of Australians need to be equipped for Australian universities studied achievement in expanding that a world in which people from either a subject substantially knowledge since the last similar different places and histories devoted to Asia or an Asian report in 1989. But it emphasizes increasingly talk to each other, language. The Ingleson Report had that much remains to be done dor work together and understand the set a target of 20 per cent by the Australians to acquire the complexities of each other's year 2000 from about 3 per cent in understnading of their immediate political and social pressures. 1988. neighbourhood that is essential for Australians know less about Asia cultural, economic and strategic than other parts of the world, yet Budget stringencies have led to a well-being. It argues that major Asia's role in Australia's trade, contraction of subjects primarily systemic changes in higer security and culture is inescapable - devoted to Asia. The pool of Asia education, plus the ageing of a and growing. specialists is shrinking as a result of cohort of specialists, create retirements and the lure of jobs conditions in which athe Asia- This report points out the overseas. Most universities are not knowledge investment could internationally recognized inclined to replace scholars of Asia evaporate - at a time when foundations of Australia's Asia who resign or retire. At the same globalisation makes it more knowledge, laid down since the time, a number of "vocational" relevant and important than ever 1950s. It argues that changing areas of university study find the before. Repositioning and renewal global circumstances present both need to allude to aspects of Asia. are essential to ensure that the an opportunity and a necessity. This cursory interest, obvious existing base is used strategically to Australia's Asia knowledge can be among a great many Australians, adapt to new conditions. The report an expanding asset; but it requires needs to be encouraged, developed suggests ways to reposition and renewing and repositioning. Such a and deepened; the study of Asia renew Australia's Asia knowledge process will maximize its use for a needs to be repositioned, as well as to entend it more widely and diverse Australia, drawn renewed. benefically to Austalians. relentlessly into multi-dimensional ties with Asia Pacific. In relative terms, the study of Australia's capacity to understand China has fared best in recent years its nearest neighbours and largest The study of Asia in Australian among the regions of Asia. trading partners is stagnant or universiteis has fallen far short of Numbers of Australian students and declining at a time when pressures the targets called for by the Asian university administrators see both of globalisation impel us to interact Studies Council and the Ingleson economic and strategic sense in
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LANGUAGES OF HIGHER DEMAND - JAPANESE, CHINESE, INDONESIAN
The availability of the "big three" Asian languages - Japanese, Chinese and Indonesian - increased between 1988 and 2001. One or the other was available at all but one of Australia's universities in 2001 - 36 out of 37. In 1988, 29 tertiary institutions has offered one or more of the three. (Table 3.2).
The data gathered for this inquiry show that the study of Mandarin Chinese grew steadily in the 1990s, while Japanese and Indonesian showed modest proportional gains after impressive increases in the 1980s and early 1990s; but in the case of Indonesian, momentum was lost and enrolments were faling at the end of the decade. Overall, […] fewer than 3 per cent of students enrolled in Australian universities in 2001 studied an Asian language.
Table 3.2: "Big Three" Asian Languages (Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Indonesian), 1988 and 2001
MULTIPLE LANGUAGE EFTSU 1988 EFTSU 2001 INCREASE 1988/2001 Japanese 1061 2476 2.3 times Mandarin Chinese 363 1338 3.7 times Indonesian 158 632 4 times
Note: EFTSU for 1988 have been rounded and do not therefore coincide precisely with Ingleson. Sources: For 1988, Ingleson Report; for 2001, data collected for this report.
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MANDARIN CHINESE Mandarin Chinese was available at 29 institutions in 2001. It was available at 13 in 1988.
More than 1,300 EFTSU were enrolled in Mandarin Chinese at Australian universities in 2001. This was 3.7 times greater than in 1988.¹ Table 3.4: Mandarin Chinese: EFTSU, 1988 and 2001
UNIVERSITY EFTSU 1988 EFTSU 2001 Adelaide 50* 73 ANU 28 56 Ballarat² - 1 Bond - 10 Canberra 15** 12 Curtin - 32 Deakin - 69 Edith Cowan - 16 Flinders Adelaide Adelaide Griffith 44 82 La Trobe (Bundoora only) - 40 Macquarie 42 92 Melbourne 53 130 Monash 20 86 Murdoch 21 15 Newcastle - 11 QUT - Griffith/UQ RMIT - 21 South Australia - Adelaide Sydney 38 123 Tasmania - 36 UNE - 30 UNSW - 147 UQ 34 76 USQ - 8 UTS - 91 UWA - 20 UWS - 33 VUT - 24 Victoria College 14 - WA CAE 3 - TOTAL 363 1334
* Includes Flinders Students taught in Adelaide program. ** Canberra CAE
¹ Ingleson Report, pp. 123-4. EFTSU were reported by the Leal Report in 1990 (vol. 2, p.159). ² Ballarat University ceased offering Mandarin Chinese in 2002; 2001 was its final year.
Note: The names of universities in the third column indicate their students were taught by the institution in the first column, in whose EFTSU those students are counted. For consistency over time, the La Trobe figure includes only the Bundoora compus. Four EFTSU were taught at other campuses.
Sources: For 1988, Ingleson Report, pp. 123-4; for 2001, data collected for this report.
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GRAPH 3.2: CHINESE EFTSU, SELECTED INSTITUTIONS, 1990, 1997-2001
Graph 3.2 shows trends in eight institutions, which probably indicate similar circumstances elsewhere. After strong growth in the early 1990s, Chinese declined or plateaued in the 1990s in most universities, but Sydney University and UNSW showed renewed growth.
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China studies at the ANU has received a significant boost with the appointment of two well-known academics in the Faculty of Asian Studies.
Professor Kam Louie (pictured above left) will take up the Chair of Chinese in the Faculty, relinquishing his position as Director of the Asian Studies Centre in the University of Queensland. Dr. Louise Edwards (pictured above right), Head of the School of Arts and Sciences in the Australian Catholic University, Queensland, will also join the Faculty before the beginning of teaching next year.
“The appointment of Professor Louie and Dr. Edwards is a major new development in Chinese studies for The Australian National University,” Dean of Asian Studies, Professor Tony Milner, said. “We are delighted they will be joining us, and believe they will do much to enhance the ANU’s reputation as an international leader in Chinese studies.”
Prof. Louie has written extensively on modern Chinese literature and culture. The most recent of a dozen books to his name is Theorizing Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China, published this year by Cambridge University Press. His interests range across modern Chinese fiction, Confucianism and Chinese thought, Chinese language teaching, and the Chinese diaspora. Prof. Louie is currently completing a three-year research project on Chinese culture in the mid-1980s, supported by a large ARC grant. He is well known in scholarly circles not only for his prolific writing, but also as editor of the Asian Studies Review, the journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), and as a member of its council. In 2001 he was also on the Australia-China Council.
Besides his scholarly work, Prof. Louie has strong links with The Australian Chinese community, and is involved with many community organisation. Hew was born in China and came to Australia at the age of 10. After gaining a Bachelor's degree and teaching qualifications from the University of Sydney, he completed an MPhil at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a graduate certificate at Peking University before returning to Sydney for his doctoral degree.
Dr. Edwards has also published widely on Chinese literature, society and gender constructions. Her well-received study Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in The Red Chamber Dream, first published in 1994, was reissued last year by Hawaii University Press. She currently is completing another major study, “Engendering Chinese Democracy: Struggles for Women’s Suffrage in China”. She has won a series of ARC grants, and has just begun a major ARC Discovery project on gender, citizenship and politics in modern China. She will bring this with her to ANU.
Dr. Edwards is Secretary of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, and has held many key posts in this professional organisation. She is editor of the Association’s "Women in Asia" series and is a councillor of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia.
Dr. Edwards has a reputation as a very effective teacher, with great success in the classroom as well as in curriculum development. She pioneered the Honours program in Asian Studies at the Australian Catholic University, Queensland.
The acting head of the Faculty of Asian Studies’ China and Korea Centre, Dr. Tamara Jacka, said that she was delighted Prof. Louie and Dr. Edwards had been appointed and was looking forward to working with her new colleagues to put together a range of new courses in Chinese language and area studies.
(Written by Michelle Morrison, National Institute for Asia and the Pacific; and originally published in ANU Reporter, vol. 33, no.9, 2002, reprinted with permission.).
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Yunnan Province. (Until recently Campus (2001) “Articulating School the county was named Zhongdian, Counter-Cultures”, Anthropology but in March the Chinese Roundup and Education Quarterly, vol. 32, government renamed it Shangri-la no. 4, pp. 472-492. County.) While in Shangri-la, Ben Australian National University will be investigating local state (2001) “The Disturbing Contmeporary China Centre administration and state-society Educational Discipline of Staff News relations, with a special focus on Peasants”, The China Journal, no. Greg Austin will be based at the how the Chinese government's 46, July, pp. 1-24. ANU's Contemporary China Centre poverty-reduction programs are for the next year while continuing implemented locally. In preparation (2001) “The Flourishing of his research on behalf of the for this fieldwork, Ben studied Religion in Post-Mao China and International Crisis Group. His Tibetan intensively at Lhasa the Anthropological Category of newest project with ICG concerns University last year. the Taiwan Strait tensions. A new Religion”, The Australian Journal book co-authored by Austin and of Anthropology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 32-46. Griffith University Professor Stuart Harris of the ANU Staff News has just been published: Japan and Peter Van Ness, of the ANU's Professor Colin Mackerras has Greater China: Political Economy finalised a typescript on Chinese and Military Power in the Asian Contemporary China Centre, has published two recent papers: Ethnic Minorities at the Turn of the Century (London: Hurst), xv + 368 Century. It is based on extensive pp. (2001) “Star Wars All Over research he has carried out in Again”, Asian Perspective, vol. 25, China’s ethnic areas since the early New Publications 1990s. Anita Chan, an Australian Senior no. 2, pp. 227-38. Research Fellow hosted by the (2001) “Hegemony, Not Anarchy: Associate Professor Leong Liew ANU, has the following has edited a book on contemporary publications: Why China and Japan are Not Balancing US Unipolar Power”, Chinese nationalism, which Routledge-Curzon has accepted for (2001) China’s Workers Under International Relations of the Asia- Pacific, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 131-50. publication. It is based on a Assault: The Exploitation of Labor conference on contemporary in a Globalising Economy, A new book edited by Luigi Chinese nationalism held in Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Brisbane in February 2001. xv + 250 pp. Tomba, a Research Fellow at the ANU's Contemporary China New Appointment (2002) “The Culture of Survival: Centre, was published in April: East Asian Capitalism: Conflicts, The School of International Lives of Migrant Workers Through Business and Asian Studies has just the Prism of Private Letters”. In Growth and Crisis (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; Milan: appointed Dr. Gloria Lan Ge in the Perry Link, Richard Madsen and position of lecturer in the field of Paul Pickowicz, (eds.) Popular Feltrinelli Editore, 2002), xliii + 524 pp. Marketing in China. Her special China: Unofficial Culture in a expertise lies in the field of Market Globalizing Society, Boulder: Orientation in the PRC. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 163- Jonathan Unger (2002) “Poverty, 188. Credit and Microcredit in Rural China”, Development Bulletin, no. PhD Degrees Awarded The following people received their Andrew Kipnis, who holds a joint 57, February. PhD degree in the field of China appointment as Fellow in the studies from Griffith University, Anthropology Department and Postgraduate Students and have since formally graduating Contemporary China Centre of the Ben Hillman, a Doctoral student at on 27 April 2002: ANU's Research School of Pacific the ANU's Contemporary China & Asian Studies, has published Centre, has embarked on 10 months Dr. Susan Trevaskes, lecturer in three papers about contemporary of fieldwork in an ethnically the School of Languages and China: Tibetan county in northwest
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Linguistics at Griffith University, of Education of the People's for a thesis entitled “The Culture of Republic of China. He will further University of Criminal Court Work in China: A his Chinese language study in New South Wales Study of Grassroots Justice in China during the academic year of Staff News Baotou, Inner Mongolia”. 2002-2003 and intends to take up Hans Hendrischke presented papers postgraduate studies after returning on private enterprise in China at a Dr. Xiao Tang Wu, School of to Australia. conference at the East West Centre, Accounting, Griffith University, for University of Hawaii and at the a thesis entitled “Foreign Banks in New Publications Annual Conference of the UNSW- China, 1979-2000”. Jin, Songping (2002) The Poetics of UTS Centre for Research on the Ideogram, Bern: Peter Lang. Provincial China in Hainan. PhD Degree to be Awarded Elliott, Jane (2002) Some Did it for Mr. Wei Zhigang, currently Dr. Yang Mu has taken up his Civilisation, Some Did it for Their working at the Institute of position as lecturer. Dr. Yang has Country: A Revised View of the Criminology in Canberra, will held research positions at various Boxer War, Hong Kong: The shortly graduate with a PhD from Australian universities and has Chinese University Press. the School of International widely published on Chinese Business and Asian Studies, musicology. He is planning to Griffith University, for a thesis University of Melbourne establish a postgraduate program in entitled “A Comparative Study of New Publication Chinese musicology and Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile A book edited by Stephanie performing arts. Dr. Yang’s Justice in Shanghai, China, and Hemelryk Donald, Michael Keane, teaching is in Chinese ethno- Brisbane, Australia”. and Yin Hong, entitled Media in musicology and gender studies. China: Consumption, Content and University of Adelaide Crisis, has been published in 2002 Dr. Zhong Yong reports that he Centre of Asian Studies (London: Routledge Curzon). undertook a special studies Departmental News program in the first half of 2002, Professor Andrew Watson has Over recent years, multinational spending three months in each retired from the Centre for Asian media scholars have increasingly Paris and Guangzhou. While in Studies, University of Adelaide. He looked to China as a highly Paris, he was given the use of an will continue to be associated with important market for the future, but atelier in Cité Internationale Des the Centre through his appointment with what degree of confidence Arts on the right bank of the Seine, as Emeritus Professor of Chinese should they do so? Media in China where he was able to meet Studies. Andrew is currently the is about a new kind of revolution in renowned artists and art educators representative of the Ford China – a revolution in which from around the world. He Foundation in Beijing. rapidly commercializing media undertook a study comparing the industries confront slow-changing mask-like faces in Picasso's Dr. Gerry Groot has been appointed power relations between political, paintings, many of which he had to a tenurable position as Lecturer social and economic spheres. This access to in the Musée de Picasso. in Chinese Studies (Level B) in the interdisciplinary collection, which He made a documentary of Centre. Gerry has just completed a includes input from Australian teaching and pedagogy in some three-year contract term. media scholars, such as Yingchi universities and colleges in Paris, Chu, Brian Shoesmith, Wanning including l'Ecole Nationale Honours Student Sun as well as writers based in Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de China, Hong Kong, and the United Mr. Kelly Layton was awarded a Paris and Esmod International (a States of America, Draws on the First Class Honours Degree of leading fashion college). The expertise of academic experts and Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies documentary project also took him cultural critics to examine the in the Centre for Asian Studies in to Strasbourg where he continued subject matter, and offer a variety 2001. Recently Mr. Layton has to shoot in l'Ecole Supérieure des of perspectives on audio-visual won a full Chinese Government Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg. industries in the world's largest Scholarship offered by the Ministry media market.
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While in China, using the footage writing assignment. He will also be After the take-over of Curzon from the documentary and his examining the transmission of Press, the Centre’s journal empirical experiences, Zhong Yong Buddhist Art along the Silk Road Provincial China will now be gave a number of presentations to and investigationg the current published by Taylor & Francis, South China Normal University politics of the 'autonomous regions' London. The first issue is in print. staff and students and to during his travels in China. Guangzhou Dongshan Association In the Centre’s series, "China’s of (Secondary School) Principals Honours Students Provinces in Reform", John on international pedagogy. He also Chip Rolley received first class Fitzgerald has recently published continued with field visits to a Honours for his thesis, "Chinese his edited volume Rethinking group of women called "self Cyberspace: The Discursive China’s Provinces, London: sworn" sisters (zishunu) residing in Construction of an Internet with Routledge, 2002, 276 pp. Further rural areas in Guangdong. Chinese Characteristics." volumes are under preparation.
Since his return to Sydney, he has Owain Williams received second New Publications been working on the editing of the class Honours Division 1 for a Hendrischke, Hans (forthcoming, documentary footage, and thesis on "The Chinese Outdoor 2002) "Privatunternehmen in hopefully, will be able to share the Industry." Zhejiang" [Private enterprise in documentary with colleagues and Zhejiang Province]. In Pohl, K and friends. Forthcoming Conference D. Wippermann (eds.). Brücke The Eighth Biennial Conference of zwischen Kulturen - Festschrift fuer Dr. Yew-Jin Fang is the Editor of the Chinese Studies Association of Chiao Wei, Muenster: LitVerlag. the ASAA E-journal of Asian Australia (CSAA) will be held Linguistics and Language from 10 – 12 July 2003 at the -- (2001) "Corruption, Networks Teaching. This externally-refereed University of New South Wales. and Property Rights: The Demise electronic journal welcomes Proposals for papers and panels on of a Local Leader through Love articles on all aspects of Asian all themes in China Studies are and Greed." In Christina Neder, linguistics and language teaching. invited. Please see further details in Heiner Roetz, Ines-Susanne The main objective of the e-journal this issue of the Newsletter. Schilling (eds.) China and her is to provide scholars with a forum biographical dimensions. for sharing their research findings UNSW-UTS Centre for Commemorative essays for Helmut with others in the fields of Asian Research on Provincial China Martin, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz linguistics and language-teaching. The Centre held its 8th Annual Verlag. pp. 517-534. The e-journal assumes a role China’s Provinces in Reform complementary to that of the Workshop in June 2002 in Haikou, -- and B. Krug (2001) "The ASAA’s flagship publication – the Hainan, China on the topic of Emergence of a Private Business Asian Studies Review. It is expected Translocal China: Place Identity Sector in China." In Henri-Claude that the ASAA E-journal of Asian and Mobile Subjectivity. The de Bettignies (ed.) Change in Linguistics and Language Teaching academic organisers were Tim Management Practices in Asia. will be published twice a year. Oakes of University of Colorado, Fontainebleau: INSEAD and Boulder, and Louisa Schein of Stanford University Press, pp. 238- Dr. Graeme Smith, who received Rutgers University. The fifteen 261. first class Honours for his study of paper presenters came from organic food in China, is currently Australia, USA, Great Britain and -- and B. Krug (2001) "The on an writing assignment with an China. Panel topics included Emergence of a Private Business American publisher, Wiley’s, for "Translocality and Gendered Sector in China: The Case of the sections of ‘Silk Routes’ and Identity", "Rural Translocalities", Zhejiang", ERIM Report Series ‘Tibetan World’ of a travel guide "Migration and State Agendas", Research in Management, 28 pp. for China, which will be published "Professional and Commercial next year. Graeme will undertake Mobilities" and "Translocality in -- and B. Krug. (2001) "China extensive investigative travels in History". Incorporated: Property Rights, China, Xinjiang, and Tibet in the Privatisation, and the Emergence of
12 CSAA website: www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/csaa/ Chiense Studies Association of Australia Newsletter - July 2002 a Private Business Sector in (forthcoming 2003) 250 Essential The Honours/postgraduate unit of China", ERIM Report Series Chinese Characters, Vol. 1, study "Change and Innovation in Research in Management, 36 pp. Singapore: Periplus Publishing Tang Poetry" will be offered for the Group. first time in 2003. The instructor -- and B. Krug. (2001) "The will be Dr. Tim Chan, a specialist Economics of Corruption and Dr. Zhong Yong has the following in Tang poetry. The department Cronyism - An Institutional publications: also plans to offer a unit of study Approach", ERIM Report Series on post-Mao Chinese society in its Research in Management, 27 pp. (2002) “Alternative uses of Chinese 2003 Honours/postgraduate television and alternative passages program. The department is Dr. Jon Eugene von Kowallis’ to power: An ethnographic study of introducing greater flexibility in its forthcoming publication, The alternative uses of television in 15 Honours entry requirements and Subtle Revolution: Poets of the 'Old urban Chinese families”. In N. welcomes enquiries from well- Schools' in Late Qing and Early Chitty (ed.) Mapping qualified students. Republican China, was formally Globalization, Southbound, announced by the Institute of East Penang. Staff and Asian Studies of the University of Honorary Associates News California Berkeley at the (2002) “Debating with muzzled Mr. Henry Chan, chair of the Association for Asian Studies mouths: A case analysis of how Chinese Australian Cultural annual meeting in Washington DC control works in a Chinese Heritage project of the Australian (April 4-7). His first book Wit and television debate used for educating Heritage Commission, newly Humor from Old Cathay has been youths”, Media, Culture and elected council member of the reprinted in Beijing in two separate Society, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 27-47. Royal Australian Historical bilingual volumes in the new Society, and a leading Australasian "University Reader" series from (2001) “The other edge of authority on the history of science Chinese Literature Press and the commercialization: Enhancing in modern China, has accepted a Foreign Language Teaching and CCTV's propaganda”, Media three-year appointment as an Research Press, compiled by Zong International Australia: New honorary associate of the Shi and edited by Yang Xianyi. A Television Formats, no. 100, department. He will work on review of Dr. Kowallis' publication, August, pp.167-180. projects on (1) the Chinese in "The Lyrical Lu Xun: A Study of Australasia, with special reference his Calssical-style Verse", has University of to the lives of Mei Guangda recently been published in Dushu, Northern Territory (Quong Tart) and Yue Henry no. 4, 2002, pp. 68-70. PhD Student Jackson, and (2) science and Martin Andrew, a distance culture in modern China, with Phillip Lee has the following education PhD student, has been special reference to the scientist publications: accepted as a 2002 Affiliate in and science administrator, Ren Research at the Fairbank Center for Hongjun. (2002) Pocket Mandarin East Asian Reseach at Harvard Dictionary, Singapore: Periplus Univesity. He left in mid-April for Dr. Tim Wai-keung Chan has been Publishing Group. thee months. He will be researching awarded funding from the the formation and growth of the University of Sydney for the (forthcoming, late 2002) Essential Workers and Peasants Red Army following projects. “Attached / Mandarin Phrase Book, Singapore: from 1927 to 1941, urban guerilla Detached / Re-attached: Wang Bo’s Periplus Publishing Group. warfare in the cities and Chinese Journey to Shu and Textual Secret Societies and communism in Problems in his Poems Written on (forthcoming, early 2003) Pocket China and Singapore. This Journey in Relation to His Cantonese Dictionary: Cantonese- Corpus” (Sesqui New Staff Support English and English-Cantonese, University of Sydney Scheme grant, $11,000) and “A Singapore: Periplus Publishing Departmental News Little Collection of Poems on a Group. Journey to Shu by Wang Bo” (Faculty of Arts Research Seed
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Funding, $3,000). He also has non Arts Research Seed Funding Literature: From Lu Xun to Gao financial support from the National scheme for her research on Xingjian" at "Translating Worlds: Library of Australia for his project sentence relations in Mandarin The Third Interdisciplinary "Principal Sources for Sinological Chinese, as well as a $3,000 Workshop on Language, Text and Studies: A Bibliography". teaching relief grant to enable her Culture" organised by the School of to develop on-line instructional European, Asian and Middle Professor Helen Dunstan spent a materials for students of Second- Eastern Languages and Studies at month at the First Historical Year Chinese. She is a member of the University of Sydney (February Archives of China (Beijing) with the editorial board of the Asian 2002). In April 2002, she funding from a University of Studies Association of Australia’s presented the following seminars: Sydney Sesqui Research and new E-Journal of Asian Linguistics "On Nietzsche and Chinese Development Grant for her project and Language Teaching. Literature: From Lu Xun to Gao “Anatomy of Political Decline in Xingjian" and "On Translating Gao Late Imperial China.” While in Dr. Derek Herforth has accepted an Xingjian” (Department of English, Beijing, she presented her recent invitation to join the editorial board Chinese University of Hong Kong); research at a seminar of the of Cahiers de Linguistique-Asie "On the Motif of Fleeing in Gao Research Institute for Qing Orientale, published by the Centre Xingjian’s Writings" (Centre of Dynasty History at Renmin des Recherches en Langues Asian Studies, University of Hong University of China, as well as Asiatiques et Océaniques, at the Kong). While in Hong Kong, she addressing a postgraduate class at École des Hautes Études en made a presentation at a session on the Department of History, Beijing Sciences Sociales, Paris. The "The Challenges of Translation" at Normal University. Earlier in the invitation came during Dr. the Hong Kong Standard Chartered year, she spent five weeks Herforth’s one-month appointment International Literary Festival, as collecting Qing-dynasty as maître de conférences at the well as contributing to readings of documentary sources from the above Centre, where he was poetry by Yang Lian and Huang digitised Grand Secretariat archives working with Alain Peyraube and Beiling at other sessions of the held by the Institute of History and Redouane Djamouri on the project festival. She also addressed two Philology, Academia Sinica, “The Structure of Preverbal classes at the Li Po Chun United Taipei, the Grand Council Position and the Focus Field in Old World College (Hong Kong) on collection at the National Palace Chinese: A Description and Gao Xingjian. Museum, Taipei, and other archival Comparison with Other Discourse- collections at the Palace Museum Configurational Languages.” Other Dr. Wang Yiyan has been awarded and the Institute of Modern highlights of Dr. Herforth’s recent a University of Sydney Sesqui New History, Academia Sinica. While sabbatical leave were his “key Staff Support Scheme grant of in Taipei, she made presentations at speaker” presentation “On yi and $15,000 for her project “Double the Institutes of Taiwan History yu as Coverbs in Late Zhou Happiness: Multiculturalism and and Modern History, Academia Chinese, with bi and ge as Tests of Chinese-Australian Artists.” In Sinica. Verbhood,” at the Fourth April 2002, she contributed a paper International Conference on entitled “From Feminism to Dr. Michelle Fu made the Classical Chinese, University of Matriarchy: National Narration and following conference presentations British Columbia, and two seminar ‘Goddess Nüwa’ by Xu Kun” to the in the second half of 2001: presentations on problems in the panel “The Identity of Female “Coordination, Subordination and syntax of late Zhou Chinese at the ‘Writing’ and the Question of Cosubordination in Mandarin Department of Asian Languages Desire in Contemporary China” Chinese” (Australian Linguistics and Literatures, University of convened by Zhong Xueping at the Society Conference, Canberra), and Washington, Seattle, where he annual meeting of the Association “Complex Sentences in Mandarin spent three months as a visiting for Asian Studies in Washington Chinese” (Fourteenth Annual scholar. DC. Conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society, Canterbury, Honorary Associate Professor New Publications New Zealand). In 2001 she was Mabel Lee delivered the keynote Chan, Tim Wai-keung (2001) awarded $3,000 from the Faculty of lecture, "On Nietzsche and Chinese “Wang Bo ‘Tengwangge xu’
14 CSAA website: www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/csaa/ Chiense Studies Association of Australia Newsletter - July 2002 jiaoding, jiantan Ricang juanziben News Items Zhang, Eric and Mobo Gao (2001) Wang Bo Shixu” [Collation of Sydney University Dramatic "The Trojan Horse of English Wang Bo’s “Preface to A Society staged Gao Xingjian’s Language Teaching: The Collection of Poems on the Gallery Dialogue and Rebuttal at the Cellar Contribution of ELT to the De- of Prince Teng,” with Notes on the Theatre, University of Sydney Radicalization of Political Manuscript Edition Preserved in under the directorship of William Discourse in China," China Japan of Wang Bo’s Prefaces to Evans in May 2002. Information, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 114- Poetry], Shu-mu chi-k’an 130. [Bibliography Quarterly], vol. 35, The Chinese writers Yu Hua no. 3, pp. 65-88. (author of To Live) and Dai Sijie Completed Thesis (author of Balzac and the Little Mr. Guo Jingrui has recently Fu, Michelle Fu (2001) “The Chinese Seamstress) participated in completed his PhD thesis on Jingju. Sentential Particle Le As a Relative the Sydney Writers’ Festival, 27 Tense Marker.” Proceedings of the May to 2 June 2002. Yu Hua University of Technology, Twelfth North American visited Sydney on a James Joyce Sydney Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Chinese Suspended Sentence New Appointment Los Angeles: University of Fellowship. He also travelled to Dr. Elaine Jeffreys has been Southern California, GSIL Melbourne, Brisbane and Dublin. appointed Lecturer in China Publications, vol. 1, pp 68-85 Studies and started to work at the University of Tasmania Institute for International Studies, Herforth, Derek (2001) Review New Appointment UTS from the beginning of 2002. Article on Pulleyblank, Edwin G. Dr. Lin Zheng has been appointed Elaine Jeffreys got a PhD from the (1995) Outline of Classical Chinese to a tenured position at the School University of Melbourne last year, Grammar, (Vancouver: University of Asian Languages & Studies. and the title of her thesis is "Telling of British Columbia Press), Cahiers Tales: Rethinking Sex, Power and de Linguistique-Asie Orientale, Conference Presentation the Governance of Prostitution via vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 215-56. Mobo Gao was invited to speak at China." the Cultural Revolution Lee, Mabel (2002) (trans.) Yang Symposium accompanying Cultural Dr. Yingjie Guo has been Lecturer Lian, Yi. Los Angeles: Green Revolution Objects Collection in China Studies and started to Integer, 2002. A bi-lingual edition Exhibit at the Burke Museum, work at the Institute for of Yang Lian’s cycle of sixty-four Washington University Seattle 8th- International Studies, UTS. He will poems inspired by the Book of 10th February 2002. take up the position at the Changes. beginning of 2003. Yingjie has just Conference News obtained his PhD from the PhD Degrees Awarded The 14th ASAA Biennial University of Tasmania, and the Dr. Bi Xiyan (Vivian Bi). Thesis Conference, with a confernce title of his thesis is "The Politics of title: “Su Shi: The Creative Use of theme "After Soverignty: Nation National Identity in Post- Rules and Conventions.” For and Peace", was held in Hobart 1st- Tiananmen China: Cultural abstract, see the November 2001 3rd July 2002. Nationalism v.s. State edition of this newsletter. Dr. Bi’s Nationalism." thesis has been accepted for Electronic Discussion List publication by the Edwin Mellen There is a electronic discussion list Mr. Jingqing Yang has Institute for Press. on the Cultural Revolution. Anyone International Studies, UTS as a who is interested in joining the research assistant. Yang Jingqing Dr. Shirley Wai Chan. Thesis title: group please contact Mobo Gao at submitted his PhD thesis at the “A Study of the Lunyu from the the following: University of Sydney last year and Perspective of the Confucian Shi.” [email protected] the title is "The Chan Interpretation For abstract, see the November of Wang Wei's Poetry: A Critical 2001 edition of this newsletter. New Publications Examination."
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] New Publication ^
Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China Kam Louie University of Queensland Published by Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity. Kam Louie uses the concepts of wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial valour) to explain attitudes to masculinity. This revises most Western analyses of Asian masculinity that rely on the yin-yang binary. Examining classical and contemporary Chinese literature and film, the book also looks at the Chinese diaspora to consider Chinese masculinity within and outside China.
************************************************************************************************************************** The Transformation of Rural China Jonathan Unger Australian National University Published by Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002
Over the past quarter century Jonathan Unger, who heads the ANU’s Contemporary China Centre, has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside, from the Maoist era through the period under Deng to the present day. In The Transformation of Rural China, which has just been published in both hardcover and paperback, he observes unexpected continuities amidst enormous change. Unger describes how rural administrations retain Mao-era characteristicsdespite the major shifts that have occurred in the economic and social hierarchies of villages as collectivization and “class struggle” gave way to the slogan “to get rich is glorious”. A chapter explores the private entrepreneurship that has blossomed in the prosperous parts of the countryside. Another focuses on the tensions and exploitation that have arisen as vast numbers of migrant laborers from poor districts have poured into richer ones. Another, based on five months of travel by jeep into impoverished villages in the interior, describes the dilemmas of underdevelopment still faced by many tens of millions of farmers, and the ways in which government policies have inadvertently hurt their livelihoods.
“Jonathan Unger has written the most engaging and wide-ranging book on rural China in memory, of interest equally to sociologists, economists and political scientists. Relying on numerous trips to both well-trodden and remote corners of the countryside, as well as a careful reading of the available literature, Unger skillfully highlights the changes and continuities that link Maoist and post-Mao China. Whether a reader's interest is equality, poverty, entrepreneurship, economic change or rural politics, this volume will be the place to start for many years to come.” Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California-Berkeley
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2002 Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK)
Registration Deadline: 4 October 2002 The Chinese Proficiency Test (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi), authorised by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, will be held on Saturaday, 12 October 2002 at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) and RMIT (Melbourne). The HSK Test is the only internatinally recognised unified Chinese language proficiency test. Since 1991, it has been held in fifteen countries and regions, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S.A. This is the nineth time that the HSK Test has been held in Sydney, and also, the eleventh time in Australia. The HSK Test is a standardised test at the state level, designed and developed by the HSK Centre of Beijing of Language & Culture University to measure the Chinese proficiency of foreigners, overseas Chinese and the students from Chinese national minorities.
The HSK serves to certify that the holder: has acquired sufficient Chinese proficiency to enter college or university as an undergraduate or graduate student; can be exempt from studying Chinese courses at certain levels (i.e., students planning extended study in China may be exempt from language classes if they hold an HSK certificate at the appropriate level); as a basis for employment institutions to evaluate the Chinese proficiency of their employees.
HSK is divided into three categories: the Basic Chinese Proficiency Test, the Elementary and the Intermediate Chinese Proficiency Test, and the Advanced Chinese Proficiency Test. The HSK Test consists of four sections: listening comprehension, reading comprehension, grammar, and cloze test.
A successful examinee who passes at a certain level will be awarded the Certificate accordingly, which is issued by the State Commission for the Chinese Proficiency Test of the People's Republic of China. A special Chinese government scholarship program for HSK will also be available for those who excel in the Chinese Proficiency Test.
For information and regristration forms, please contact:
SYDNEY MELBOURNE Dr. Zhong Yong Mrs. Guosheng Yang Chen HSK Chairman and Coordinator Language and International Studies Department of Chinese Studies RMIT The University of New South Wales Tel: 03-9925 4403 or 03- 9925 4840 Tel: 02-9385 3812 Fax: 03-9925 4404 Fax: 02-9385 1090 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Examinees from Sydney can also download the HSK registration forms by visiting the HSK (Sydney) website: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/languages/chinese/chinesehsk.html
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THE CHINESE STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
The Chinese Studies Association of Australia [CSAA] is the professional association for China specialists and post-graduate students in Australia. Its membership includes most of the specialists in the field of anthropology, economics, geography, history, language, law, linguistics, political science, sociology, literature and other aspects of Chinese society and culture. To inform its membership about what is occurring in the China studies community throughout Australia, it regularly publishes the China Studies Newsletter, containing information about on-going research, new publications, new appointments, forthcoming conferences and workshops, and a campus round-up.
The CSAA also convenes a major biennial conference, containing dozens of panels of papers and Drawing a large number of participants both from Australia and abroad. The most recent national conference was held at the Australian National University in July 2001.
The CSAA liases with government departments and other appropriate official bodies at the Commonwealth and State levels regarding the teaching of the Chinese language and culture in primary and secondary schools and universities and other issues relevant to the field of Chinese Studies, such as research funding. The Association works to ensure that it has a significant input on all important matters relating to Chinese Studies in Australia. Membership
The annual subscription of CSAA covers the financial year July to June. The current subscription for each category of member is as follows:
Conference-to-conference (July 2001 – June 2003) Ordinary Membership $45 Conference-to-conference (July 2001- June 2003) Student (and those not in full employment) Membership $20 Annual (July 2001 – June 2002) Ordinary Membership $30 Annual (July 2001 – June 2002) Student (and those not in full employment) Membership $10 Annual (July 2001 – June 2002) Corporate Membership $100
Please make cheque payable to the Chinese Studies Association of Australia [Inc.] and send completed form to:
Dr. Mobo Gao, Treasurer CSAA School of Asian Languages and Studies University of Tasmania P O Box 252-91 Sandy Bay, Hobart TAS 7001 Australia
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] Call for Papers ^ Approaches to China Studies In Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of The Institute of International Relations National Chengchi University
On April 1, 2003 the Institute of International Relations will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. In order to commemorate the Institute’s five decades of research into international and Chinese affairs, Issues & Studies will publish a special issue reviewing the state of the China Studies field. Issues & Studies welcomes authors to submit papers on topics including (but not limited to):
• Overviews of recent developments in disciplinary approaches – example, political science, economics, sociology, law, geography, anthropology, and history – to the study of the PRC and Taiwan.
• Singular-case or comparative analyses of American, European, Asian, and Chinese conceptualizations of China and/or China studies as a general field.
• The strengths and weaknesses of media coverage and/or policy analyses of the domestic and international affairs of the PRC and Taiwan.
• The role of research institutes in the accumulation of China-specific knowledge.
• Analyses of our understanding of the dynamics of cross-Strait relations.
• Reviews of the development of a field of knowledge of PRC military affairs.
• Overviews of research sources in the study of Chinese affairs, with special consideration given to reviews of internet-related resources.
• Strategies for conducting field research in the PRC and Taiwan.
All papers, which will be subject to anonymous peer review, must be post-marked before November 30, 2002, and should be addressed to Dr. Andrew Marble
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] Forthcoming Conference ^ International call for papers for the Eighth Biennial Conference Chinese Studies Association of Australia 10 – 12 July 2003 The University of New South Wales
This will be a multidisciplinary conference, welcoming contributions by scholars from around Australia and the world on all topics regarding China – for instance, in all of the social sciences, history, law, literature, linguistics, art, and library science. Based on the attendance at previous conferences, it is expected that some 200 papers will be delivered during the three and a half days of the conference. Half a dozen or more panels will run simultaneously.
Proposal for papers and panels on all themes in China studies are invited. Please contact the President of the CSAA, Associate Professor Hans Hendrischke, Department of Chinese and Indonesian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Morven Brown Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia. (Phone: 61-2- 9385 2416; fax: 61-2-9385 1090; email: [email protected]).
The conference will be held at the University of New South Wales.
Details will be published on the conference website at:
www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/csaa/
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