contested 3rd Foundation for histories Australian Studies in China (FASIC) & the Conference politics of 2015 .10.22 25 East China Normal me mory University, Shanghai

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Professor David Walker, The Australian Studies Centre Attendance is free, registration BHP Billiton Chair of Australian at East China Normal University required: [email protected] Studies at Peking University conference east china australian studies normal centre at east china overview university normal university

Contested Histories and the This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Founded in Shanghai in October 1951, Established in 1985, the Australian Studies Politics of Memory will Gallipoli landing, which has long been a subject East China Normal University (ECNU) is Centre of East China Normal University consider how societies of extensive discussion, dramatisation, historical one of the most prestigious universities is one of the most active centres in China remember, record and reflection and commemoration. As is apparent in the in China. With two campuses located in focusing on the teaching and research commemorate the past in commemoration of Gallipoli, the past intrudes into Minhang and Putuo District, ECNU has of aspects of Australia, with its mission to order to explore contested all aspects of contemporary society: international long been admired as a ‘Garden University’. promote the mutual understanding and histories, differing disputes, Indigenous histories, the teaching friendship between our two countries and As the first normal (teacher training) interpretations of the curriculum, Asia literacy, gender relations and the peoples. The Centre has 11 staff members, same event and the act university founded in the country after the nature and meaning of multiculturalism. who specialise in Australian literature, of commemoration itself. establishment of the People’s Republic of culture, politics, foreign relations, education This international conference will bring together China, ECNU has kept teacher training as and social studies. The Centre supervises scholars and students from a range of disciplines one of its main features and since China PhD and MA students. Members of the - International Relations, History, Politics, Cultural opened up to the world in 1978, ECNU Centre have published extensively in Studies and Literature – to discuss history, has developed into a comprehensive Australian Studies, with major publications commemoration, language, identity and memory research university. such as Contemporary Australian Society, in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. ECNU attaches great importance to the Australian Culture in Review, A History of internationalisation of its development China Australia Relations, An Anthology and enjoys a wide influence and an of Australian Literature, A History of excellent reputation around the world. The Australian Literature, The Impact of China’s university has established exchange and Modernisation on Relations with Australia, cooperative partnerships with more than Australian Literary Criticism and Towards 150 internationally renowned universities the Ideal and Freedom of Humanity: and academic institutions. Sexuality in Patrick White’s Fictions.

ECNU is steadily and enthusiastically working towards its goal of establishing itself as an internationally renowned high- level research university, with a number of first-class disciplines, while also taking the lead in the development of China’s teacher training.

2 Cover image: John Young Zerunge, The Illustrious Fleet of Lowe Kong Meng, 2015, digital print and felt on canvas, 320 x 151 cm. Courtesy the artist. 3 foundation for conference Professor David Walker australian studies convenor in china BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University

The Foundation for Australian Studies in China The annual FASIC Conference is convened He is the co-editor with Agnieszka (FASIC) is a not-for-profit organisation registered and designed by Professor David Walker, Sobocinska of Australia’s Asia: From in Australia. FASIC supports existing and future BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Yellow Peril to Asian Century (UWA initiatives which deepen awareness of Australia in Peking University. The conference rotates Publishing, 2012). Australia’s Asia has China across a range of disciplines and fields of on an annual basis and addresses a been translated into Chinese by academics study. FASIC plays a significant role in the promotion different theme with new speakers each in the Australian Studies Centre at Beijing of Australian Studies in China and looks to further year. The first FASIC conference Australia’s Foreign Studies University. expand and strengthen research and teaching China/China’s Australia: Past, Present and A collection of his Asia-related essays has collaboration between Australian and Chinese Future was held at Peking University in been published under the title Encountering universities. FASIC provides grants and scholarships 2013, followed by The Big Picture: Lives, Turbulence: Asia in the Australian Imaginary to Australian and Chinese professionals. A key Landscapes, Homelands in Australian and (Readworthy, 2013). His recently published initiative of the Foundation is the BHP Billiton Chair of Chinese Art at Renmin University of China personal history, Not Dark Yet has been Australian Studies at Peking University. On November in 2014. translated into Chinese by Professor Li 26 2012, two Australian Ministers announced the Professor Walker has written extensively Yao, with the Chinese title appointment of the inaugural Chair, Professor David on Australian representations of Asia. and published by The People’s Walker from Deakin University. He took up his new His prize-winning book, Anxious Nation: Literature Publishing House, Beijing position in February 2013. Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to (2014). Professor Walker is a Fellow of FASIC is supported by BHP Billiton, Universities 1939 (UQP, 1999) has been translated into the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australia-China Council of the Chinese and published by China Renmin Australia and the Australian Academy of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Allens and University Press (2009). An English edition the Humanities. He is also Alfred Deakin Linklaters, PWC Australia and Riverstone Advisory. was published in India in the same year Professor at Deakin University, . and a Hindi translation in 2015.

4 5 conference The conference will open with a format plenary session, followed by a viewing of Student Posters.

Participants will then break out into parallel sessions: three sessions. During each panel, speakers will give a brief presentation of 15 minutes each, followed by time for questions and audience discussion moderated by the Chair.

The conference focuses on and encourages open debate among the speakers and audience.

Image left: John Young Zerunge, The Eternal (Annie, Arthur and Agnes Kong Meng), 2015, digital print and felt on canvas, 320 x 151 cm. Courtesy the artist. 6 7 attending the conference

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Contested Histories and the Politics of Full name (Chinese and English if East China Normal University, 3663 Guoman Hotel Changfeng Park Memory is open to all and attendance 1 appropriate) and your professional North Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai Block 1, 388 Daduhe Road, is free, registration required. title and organisation 3663 Guoson Centre, Putuo District, Shanghai Those wishing to attend must RSVP The Science Conference Hall by email to conference coordinators, Creative Asia: Which of the 2 events you will attend: 3881 2 Conference Day 1, 23 October 2015 [email protected] T: +86 21 6095 8888 Conference Day 2, 24 October 2015 E: [email protected] Registration deadline: Please note: Further information 16 October 2015 on getting to the conference venue to be advised on registration. For more information visit: pkuasc.fasic.org.au

8 9 3B conference Australia-China Cultural Understandings

schedule Dou Wei, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Chair), Feminist Movement in Australia: From 1950s to the Present

Benjamin Herscovitch, China Policy, day 1 Beijing, Escaping the ‘Century of Humiliation’ and ‘Tyranny of Distance’: friday Reforming Chinese and Australian 23 october Foreign Policy with New National Narratives

John Scheckter, Long Island University, New York, Playing the Violin at Minus Twenty Degrees: American, 8:30am 10:00am – 11:15am 1:00pm – 2:30pm Australian, and Chinese Cultural Projects in Antarctica

Sun Lizhou, Southwest University Registrations Session 1: Session 3: of Political Science and Law, The The Science Conference Hall Australian Studies in Asia Breakout Potential Role of Australia in China’s The Science Conference Hall Huashen Academic Exchange Center “One Belt, One Road” Initiative

Richard Fidler, ABC Radio (Chair) 9:00am Heejin Lee, Yonsei University, 3A Remembering 3C Seoul, South Korea The Politics Welcome and World War One Chen Hong, East China Normal of Translation University, Shanghai, China Official Remarks Geraldine Doogue, ABC Radio The Science Conference Hall foyer Fang Hong, Soochow University Nilanjana Deb, Jadavpur University, (Chair), Remembering Gallipoli (Chair), Gender and Race in the Kolkata, India 100 Years On: Grief, Patriotism East China Normal University Translation of Carpentaria and Embracing Complexity Vice-President Ren Youqun Teruhiko Fukushima, National Defense Li Jianjun, Beijing Foreign Studies Academy of Japan, Tokyo, Japan Yoko Harada, Independent Researcher, Professor David Walker, BHP Billiton University, Who Was Translated Tokyo, Raise the Japanese Battle Chair of Australian Studies at and Why: Australian Literary Cruiser: Commemorating the Departure Peking University Works in Chinese Translation in the of the First Anzac Convoy 11:15am – 12noon 1950s–1960s Official Opening by Mr Graeme Jurgen Tampke, Germany/University Meehan, Australian Consul Li Yao, Peking University, Australian of , ‘Who is Mister General Shanghai Session 2: Literature in China Mandate?’ East Asia and Australia at the Official Conference Photo Student Poster Session Paris Peace Conference 1919 Zhang Yongxian, Renmin University The Science Conference Hall of China, Reflections on the History Peter Cochrane, University of Depicted in Anxious Nation by Sydney, The Erasure of Contexts: David Walker 9:30am – 10:00am 12noon – 1:00pm Why Gallipoli matters Morning tea Lunch 2:30pm – 3:00pm Afternoon tea 10 11 4B 4:30pm – 5:15pm The Decolonising World

Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen Session 5: (Chair), Contested Histories and the Our Man in China: Stephen Politics of Language: Remembering FitzGerald Reflects Decolonization The Science Conference Hall 3:00pm – 4:30pm Sean Brawley, Macquarie University, Cantonments and Communities: Exploring Stephen FitzGerald, Australia’s first Australia’s Asian Garrisons Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and Honorary Fellow at the China Session 4: Mathew Radcliffe, Macquarie University, Studies Centre at , Breakout Remembering Butterworth: Surveying with introduction by Hu Zhuanglin, Huashen Academic Exchange Center Australia’s Past and Present Relationship Honourary Director of the Australian with Asia Studies Centre at Peking University. Gwenda Tavan, , 4A Remembering to Forget? : Reflections on Memory and Imagination the Non-place of Immigration in Australian National Memory and Commemoration End of day 1 Penny Edmonds, University of Tasmania (Chair), Pathways out of the Myall Creek Massacre: (Re)conciliation Performances 4C and the Politics of Memory History Wars Vanessa Castejon, University Paris 13, Anna Clark, University of Technology Postcolonial Messages to Children in (Chair), Exploring Community Responses Ethnology Museums in Europe: Heritage to the Australian History Wars and Contested Histories Mark Finnane, Griffith University, Bill Gammage, Australian National Fabrications, History Wars and the Gifts University, Canberra, Memory and of Empire Imagination: Farmers and “Hunter-gatherers” Mayumi Kamada, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Commemorating the Bombing of Darwin: Politics of Memory and Australia-Japan-US Relations

Teruhiko Fukushima, National Defense Academy of Japan, Overcoming the War History: Postwar Japan-Australia Economic Rapprochement 12 13 day 2 11:00am – 12:30pm saturday 24 october Session 7: Breakout Huashen Academic Exchange Center

B 8:30am 6 Australians in China 7A 60 Years of Australia- Registrations Zhang Wei, Shantou University (Chair), China Relations Peking Story: High Adventures of WH The Science Conference Hall Roundtable Discussion Donald in China (1912–1927)

Chen Bing, Peking University, From the Kevin Hobgood-Brown, Foundation Background to the Foreground: China for Australian Studies in China (Chair) 9:00am – 10:30am as a Journalistic Construct in GE Hou Minyue, East China Morrison’s Reports Normal University Hu Yuling, Renmin University of China, Session 6: Han Feng, China Academy of The Religious Myth of Morrison Breakout Social Sciences Huashen Academic Exchange Center Changwei Chen, Peking University, James Leibold, La Trobe University Whitlam and Australia’s Military Withdrawal from Malaysia and Singapore Nick Bisley, La Trobe University 6A Indigenous Identities 6C 7B 7C Anne Brewster, University of New South History, Memory and Forgotten Histories Educational Strategies Wales (Chair), The Cultural work of Humour in Aboriginal Literature: Marie Commemoration Susan Ballyn, Barcelona University Sue Chen, Deakin University (Chair), Munkara’s ‘Every Secret Thing’ Kate Darian-Smith, The University (Chair), Contesting Convict History: Representations of China in Australian Chunli Xing, Beihang University, of Melbourne (Chair), Contested Remembering the Forgotten and British Children’s Fiction, Memory, History and Reality: The 1890–1910 Histories and the Importance of Benjamin Mountford, Federation Reconstruction of Aboriginality in Memory in Contemporary Australia University Australia, Stopping the Boats, Amanda Barry, Peking University, Indigenous Novels Ines Eben v. Racknitz, Nanjing c.1888: Chinese Migration to Australia ‘Now we ask, not for protection, but Nilanjana Deb, Jadavpur University, University, Memories of the Pillage: as an Imperial Problem for education’: Contesting histories of Spatial Counter-Histories: Australian Aboriginal education, assimilation and Uses of the Yuanming Yuan in Joanna Bayndrian, Independent Aboriginal Literature as Memorialisation citizenship in 1930s Australia Contemporary Mainland China Curator, From Old Ground: Duan Manfu, Inner Mongolia University, Jiang Liangqin, Nanjing University, Contemporary Artists Respond to Early Xu Daozhi, The University of How Aborigines Made Australia: Seen Politics, Emotions, and Memory: A Chinese Migration in NSW’s Central Hong Kong, Living Memories: from the Key words in The Biggest Estate History of Disputes over the Nanjing West Autobiographical and Testimonial on Earth Narratives of the Stolen Generations Massacre in Japan and China Mei-fen Kuo, University of Queensland, Enterprising Chinese Australians: the Case of the Wing Sang and Co. in the 10:30am – 11:00am Early 20th Century 12:30pm – 1:30pm Morning tea Lunch 14 15 1:30pm – 3:00pm 8B Australia-China Futures Session 8: Roundtable Discussion Breakout Geoff Raby, Geoff Raby & Associates, Huashen Academic Exchange Center Beijing (Chair) Hu Dan, Beijing Foreign Studies University 8A David Carter, The University of Queensland 3:30pm – 4:00pm 4:40pm – 5:00pm Philosophies of Inclusion Feng Shaolei, East China Normal University

David Walker, Peking University (Chair) Gregory McCarthy, PLENARY: Student Poster Prizes and Oral Presentations Closing Ceremony Martin Leer, Université de Genève, The Science Conference Hall ‘I say we have a bitter heritage. But 3:00pm – 3:30pm that is not to run it down’… » Contested Afternoon tea Geraldine Doogue, ABC Radio (Chair) Histories in Randolph Stow’s Tourmaline and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria 6 Student Poster finalists present their 5:00pm research (5 minutes each) Conference closes Ipsita Sengupta, Bankura University, Tracing India in Mollie Skinner’s Polyphonic Models of Australianness 4:00pm – 4:30pm David Reeve, University of New South Wales, Shanghai and Sydney in the 1920s to 1940s – the Theosophical Link Panel discussion with students of Australian Studies & Geraldine Doogue, ABC Radio (Chair)

Poster Judging

16 17 day 3 sunday 25 october

William Yang

Artist Associated Event

My Histories William Yang has created many William Yang was born in North From 1989 he integrated his skills as a performances, talking with image Queensland. His grandparents migrated writer and a visual artist. He began to projection, in theatres around the world, from China to the Top End in the 1880s. perform monologues with slide projection Story-telling for over 20 years. To fit the themes of the After completing a Bachelor of Architecture in the theatre. These slide shows were performance by conference he re-examines one of his best at Queensland University he moved to a form of performance theatre and have Australian artist known stories, My Uncle’s Murder. Sydney in 1969 and worked as a freelance become the main expression of his work. photographer documenting Sydney’s social They have toured extensively in Australia William’s uncle, William Fang William Yang life which included the glamorous celebrity and the world. Yuen, was murdered at Mourilyan in North set and the hedonistic, sub-cultural, Queensland in 1922. In 1990, William In 1993 William Yang won the Higashikawa- gay community. Venue: travelled to North Queensland to research cho International Photographic Festival GLAM dinning lounge and bar, the murder. Within his family certain myths In the mid-1980s William began to award of International Photographer of the West 7F, 5 The Bund, Shanghai had grown about the murder. These stories explore his Chinese heritage which had Year. He continues to exhibit in galleries were wildly divergent - in My Histories hitherto been lost to him by his complete in Australia and Asia. In 2010 he was William discusses these “family myths” in assimilation into the Australian way of life. awarded an Australia Council Fellowship to Time: the context of the politics of memory. His photographic themes expanded to make films of his performance pieces. Two 3:00pm include landscapes and the Chinese in of these films, My Generation and Friends In the late 1980s William was one of the Australia. During this period he made of Dorothy have been broadcast on ABC1. Cost: first contemporary Chinese Australians to visits to China. He has recently completed a third film, 75 RMB (includes one drink) tell a Chinese Australian story. Previously Blood Links at the University of NSW, or 20 RMB with student card there were histories of the Chinese in where he is a visiting fellow. RSVP essential: Australia written by Australian historians [email protected] but never from an Australian Chinese point of view. He found it a very liberating experience and writes: “The history of For more information visit: the Chinese in Australia has not been www.m-restaurantgroup.com contested, but rather ignored to the point of invisibility.”

18 19 speakers

Susan Ballyn Amanda Barry Joanna Bayndrian

Founder, Co-Director, The Research Coordinator, Independent Curator Australian Studies Centre, Australian Studies Centre, Barcelona University Peking University

Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn Since the 1990s her main area of Amanda Barry received her PhD Joanna is an arts manager and graduated from Barcelona University research has been convict studies from The University of Melbourne in curator working across Sydney and with a BA in 1982, MA in 1983 and more recently she has become 2008 for her thesis ‘Broken Promises: Beijing. She is General Manager and PhD in 1985. She joined the a member of a research group Aboriginal Education in South-Eastern of Sydney consultancy Creative English and German Philology staff studying ageing in Literature at Australia 1837–1937’, which won Asia, Editor of the online arts portal, in 1982. Her main teaching areas Lleida University under the acronym the prize for the University’s best creative-asia.net and International have been English poetry from Dedal-lit which has now become part Australian history thesis in 2008. Media Coordinator, Beijing Design the Renaissance to contemporary of a large European project SiforAge. Amanda has published numerous Week. Her past curatorial projects times, and postcolonial studies with For this project she is collecting oral articles and book chapters relating include island6 art collective (Liu a special emphasis on Asia Pacific life histories of women over seventy to her research and has presented Dao ) (2014); Wondermountain and Australia in particular. Her PhD years of age. She is also part of a at academic conferences in (2014) and Love David (2013) at was the first in Spain on Australian research project, POCRIF, which looks Australia and internationally, as well Penrith Regional Gallery & The Literature. She founded the Australian at Postcolonial Crime Fiction and is as undertaking tutoring, lecturing Lewers Bequest, where she held Studies Centre at the university, funded by the Spanish Ministry of and research work at University of the positions of Curatorial Assistant which was recognised as an official Education. She currently holds the Melbourne and Australian Catholic and Exhibition Project Manager Barcelona University Centre in 2000. position of Professor Emerita and University. Based in Beijing since (2011–2014). Joanna is a recipient of Founder/Co-director at the 2008, and with consulting, education the Museums and Galleries NSW 2014 Australian Studies Centre at and diplomatic work experience, Curatorial Support Initiative supporting Barcelona University. Amanda is currently Research the development of an exhibition at Coordinator at the Peking University Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2015. Australian Studies Centre and Director Joanna has a Bachelor of International of Engagement and Research for and Global Studies (Hons) from the the Foundation of Australian Studies University of Sydney and is a Chinese in China. Amanda speaks fluent (Mandarin) speaker. Mandarin Chinese and lives in Beijing with her family. 20 21 Nick Bisley Sean Brawley Anne Brewster David Carter

Executive Director of La Department of Modern History, School of the Arts and Media, Professor of Australian Trobe Asia and Professor of Politics and International University of New South Wales Literature and Cultural History, International Relations, Relations, Macquarie University University of Queensland La Trobe University

Nick Bisley is Executive Director Sean Brawley is Professor of Modern Associate Professor Anne Brewster David Carter is Professor of Australian of La Trobe Asia and Professor of History and Head of the Department teaches at the University of New Literature and Cultural History at International Relations at La Trobe of Modern History, Politics and South Wales. Her books include the University of Queensland and a University. His research and teaching International Relations at Macquarie Literary Formations: Postcoloniality, fellow of the Australian Academy of expertise is in Asia’s international University. His research interests Nationalism, Globalism (1996) and the Humanities. He is the author of relations, globalisation and the focus on the transnational examination Aboriginal Women’s Autobiography Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: diplomacy of great powers. Nick of themes such as war, sport and (1995). She co-edited, with Angeline Issues in Australian Studies (2006) is currently Editor-in-Chief of the migration in the Asia-Pacific in the O’Neill and Rosemary van den Berg, and most recently Almost Always Australian Journal of International long twentieth century, with particular an anthology of Australian Indigenous Modern: Australian Print Cultures Affairs, Australia’s oldest scholarly reference to Australia’s Asian writing, Those Who Remain Will and Modernity (2013). Publications journal in the field of International context. His paper for this conference Always Remember (2000). Her new in China include Modern Australian Relations. Nick is a director of the is drawn from a larger collaborative book Giving This Country a Memory: Criticism and Theory, edited with Australian Institute of International research project involving scholars in Essays on and Interviews with Wang Guanglin (2010). He recently Affairs, a member of the Council Australia, Singapore and Japan. His Aboriginal Writers is forthcoming with published an article on cultural for Security and Cooperation in most recent book is The South Seas: Cambria. She is also working on an diplomacy through the humanities, the Asia-Pacific and has been a A Reception History from Daniel Australian Research Council–funded using the Australian government’s Senior Research Associate of the DeFoe to Dorothy Lamour (Rowman project with Sue Kossew (Monash Australian Studies programs as a case International Institute of Strategic and Littlefield, 2015). University) on violence in Australian study (International Journal of Cultural Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the women’s writing. Policy 21.4 2015). David has extensive East West-Center in Washington DC. experience with Australian Studies in China and with cultural diplomacy more generally in the education sector. He has spent a number of periods as a Visiting Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University and has also been a Visiting Scholar at East China Normal and Soochow Universities. Since 2002, he has been Manager of the Australian Studies in China program on behalf of the Australia- China Council, and he is currently a Board member of the Foundation for Australian Studies in China.

22 23 Vanessa Castejon Bing Chen Chen Hong Changwei Chen

Associate Professor, University School of Foreign Languages, Director, Australian Studies Lecturer in Diplomacy and Foreign Paris 13 Peking University Centre, East China Normal Affairs, School of International University Studies, Peking University

Vanessa Castejon is an Associate Bing Chen is an Assistant Professor Chen Hong is Director of the Dr Changwei Chen is a lecturer Professor at University Paris 13. in the School of Foreign Languages Australian Studies Centre at East in diplomacy and global affairs at Her work explores Aboriginal at Peking University since 2004. She China Normal University in Shanghai. the School of International Studies, political claims, self-determination earned her BA degree in 2001 from He is also Vice President of the Peking University. He is the director and sovereignty, and the image of Jinan University in Guangzhou and National Association of Australian of the Master of International Aboriginal people in France/Europe. her MA degree in 2004 from Peking Studies in China, and Editor-in- Relations Program at the school. He Her recent publications include an University. Besides her teaching Chief of the website of Australian is also affiliated with the Australian article on her ego-histoire, ‘Identity engagements, she is also a PhD Studies in China. Chen Hong’s Studies Centre at PKU. His research and Identification: Aboriginality from candidate in the School of Journalism research interests include Australian interests include diplomatic history the Spanish Civil War to the French and Communication at PKU. She literature and Australian culture. He and strategic traditions of China, Ghettos’ in: Passionate Histories: joined the American governmental is author and co-author of several the United States and Australia. His Myth, Memory and Indigenous Fulbright program and was a books on Australian Studies such most recent publications appeared Australia, (Aboriginal History/ANU Fulbright FLTA fellow at Jackson State as Contemporary Australian Society, in The Journal of Imperial and Press, 2010), edited by Frances University in Mississippi, USA, from From Isolation to the World: Australian Commonwealth History, and the Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John 2007 to 2008. Her focus of research Culture in Review, Australian Literary Australian Journal of Politics and Docker. Her book, Les Aborigènes et is the foreign media and journalism Criticism and Towards the Ideal and History. He has also published a l’apartheid politique australien, was in China. Freedom of Humanity Sexuality in number of articles on the history of published by L’Harmattan in 2005. Patrick White’s Fictions, and Chinese Sino-American relations and the Cold translator of David Marr’s Patrick War in Chinese journals. White: A Life. He teaches Australian literature, Australian culture and English language at East China Normal University.

24 25 Sue Chen Anna Clark Peter Cochrane Kate Darian-Smith

Lecturer in Literary Studies in Australian Research Council Fellow of the Australian Academy Professor of Australian Studies, the School of Communication and Future Fellow in Public History, of the Humanities and Honorary History and Cultural Heritage, Creative Arts, Deakin University University of Technology Associate, Department of History, The University of Melbourne University of Sydney

Shih-Wen Sue Chen is a Lecturer Anna Clark is an Australian Research Dr Peter Cochrane is a Fellow of the Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of in Literary Studies in the School of Council Future Fellow in Public History Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian Studies and History, Faculty Communication and Creative Arts at at the University of Technology, and an Honorary Associate in the of Arts and Professor of Cultural Deakin University. She received her Sydney. She has written three Department of History, University of Heritage, Faculty of Architecture, PhD in Literature, Screen and Theatre books: History Wars (with Stuart Sydney. He is the author and editor/ Building and Planning at The Studies from The Australian National Macintyre), Teaching the Nation: author of ten books and his literary University of Melbourne. She has University (ANU). Sue was previously Politics and Pedagogy in Australia, awards include The Age Award for published widely on Australian a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian and History’s Children: History Wars Non-Fiction, the Age Book of the and imperial histories, memory Centre on China in the World, ANU, in the Classroom, which interviewed Year and the Prime Minister’s Prize studies, war and society, children’s Adjunct Assistant Professor in 250 history teachers, students and for Australian History for Colonial history, and cultural heritage. Her Tamkang University, Taiwan and has curriculum officials from around Ambition: Foundations of Australian recent publications include, as also lectured in National Tsing Hua Australia to explore Australian Democracy (2006). He is a writer of co-editor, Conciliation on Colonial University (NTHU), Taiwan. She is the history teaching in schools. Anna’s non-fiction, fiction, opinion and travel. Frontiers: Conflict, Performance and author of Representations of China in current project, Every Now and Then: His most recent book is the novella Commemoration in Australia and the British Children’s Fiction, 1851–1911 Navigating History in Australia, uses Governor Bligh and the Short Man Pacific Rim (Routledge, 2015) and (Ashgate, 2013). Her work has been interviews with 100 people from (Penguin, 2012). The novella was Children, Childhood and Cultural published in edited books as well as around the country to consider their long-listed for the Waverley Award Heritage (Routledge, 2013). Kate led in Children’s Literature in Education, thoughts on history alongside public for Literature in 2013. With Professor the national Childhood, Tradition and Papers: Explorations into Children’s and political discussions about the Julianne Schultz he jointly edited Change study of children’s play in Literature, Australian Literary Studies, past. Reflecting her love of fish and the most recent Griffith Review, a collaboration with the National Library and Continuum: Journal of Media fishing, she has also recently been collection of essays on Australia’s of Australia and Museum Victoria. and Cultural Studies. In 2014, she commissioned to write a history of twentieth century wars – Griffith Kate’s current projects include a was joint convenor of the ‘Reading fishing in Australia, which will be Review 48 Enduring Legacies (2015). book on the history of Australian Communities and the Circulation of published in 2016. A recent essay, ‘Diamonds of the press photography. Kate is a Fellow Print: Australia, China, and Britain in Dustheap’, on the World War I diaries of the Academy of Social Sciences in the 19th Century’ conference held collection at the State Library of New Australia, and has held government at the ANU. Her research interests South Wales appeared in Humanities advisory positions in the cultural and include Victorian and Edwardian Australia, no. 6, July 2015. heritage sectors. She has a long-term children’s literature, Chinese children’s involvement in Australian Studies, literature, book history, histories of serving on The Board of the Australia- reading, and publishing history. Japan Foundation (DFAT), and as the current Vice President of the International Australian Studies Association. 26 27 Geraldine then worked for a time on commercial radio with 2UE and on commercial television, co-presenting Channel 10’s main news bulletin, before returning to the ABC in 1990. She played a major role in ABC TV’s coverage of the Gulf War. During this period Geraldine was awarded two Penguin Awards and a United Nations Media Peace Prize.

Nilanjana Deb Dou Wei Geraldine Doogue In 1992 Geraldine began presenting Life Matters, a new ABC Radio Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Beijing Foreign Journalist and Broadcaster on National program which set out to Jadavpur University Studies University ABC Radio and Television cover the full gamut of social issues in everyday life. In 1998, she also became host of ABC TV’s Compass program, which looks at issues of Dr. Nilanjana Deb teaches in the Dou Wei graduated from Beijing Whilst originally planning a career spirituality, philosophy and belief every Department of English, Jadavpur Foreign Studies University (BSFU) as a schoolteacher after completing Sunday evening. After 11 years with University. Her research interests in 2000 with a Master Degree in her Arts degree, in 1972 Geraldine Life Matters, she moved to Saturday include postcolonial, diaspora and Australian Studies and since then applied on an impulse for a journalism mornings to host a program focusing subaltern studies. Her doctoral work she began to teach in the School of cadetship with The West Australian on international politics, Australia’s was on the literary historiography of English and International Studies of instead. Since then she has thrived on role on the world stage, and business, Aboriginal communities in Australia BFSU. Her research interests are: that impulsive decision. called Saturday Extra. and Canada. Her postdoctoral Australian social issues, cultural Within the first ten years of her career, work examines the emigration of studies, gender studies, and In 2000 Geraldine was awarded a Geraldine had carved out a reputation ‘coolies’ from colonial India to the international relations. Currently she Churchill Fellowship for social and in print, television and radio, including sugar plantations of the British and is teaching a MA course on Australian cultural reporting. In 2003, she was two years at the London Bureau French Empires. She received the gender issues at the Australian recognised with an Officer in the working for the Murdoch group’s prestigious Shastri Indo-Canadian Studies Center, BFSU. Order of Australia for services to the Australian papers. Fellowship in 2004 and 2009, the community and media. In March 2011, Australia-India Council Fellowship in Her entrance into television was she was awarded an Honorary 2004, and the British Academy South unexpected. Whilst covering a story Doctorate of Letters by her alma Asia Fellowship in 2009. She is a joint for The Australian, an ABC Television mater, the University of Western investigator in several major research reporter interviewed her for a Four Australia and by Macquarie University. collaborations between Jadavpur Corners program. When the head In August 2014 she released a book University and universities in Europe office executives saw the interview, published by Text Publishing called and the UK. they were so impressed with The Climb: Conversations with her on-camera presence that they Australian Women in Power. offered Geraldine the Perth compere’s position for ABC Television’s then new program Nationwide.

She soon moved to Sydney to host the NSW edition of the program and established herself as one of the most respected and popular personalities on national television.

28 29 Duan Manfu Penny Edmonds Fang Hong Feng Shaolei

Australian Studies Centre, Australian Research Council Ph.D., Associate Professor, East China Normal University Inner Mongolia University Future Fellow and Associate School of Foreign Languages, Professor in the School of Soochow University Humanities, University of Tasmania Duan Manfu is doctor of linguistics, Fang Hong is Associate Professor Professor Feng Shaolei is member of professor of English and MA at the School of Foreign Languages, the Valdai Club 7-Person International supervisor at Inner Mongolia Soochow University. She is also Vice Advisory Board, member of the University, teaching English Director of the Australian Studies international review board for World Penelope Edmonds is an Australian Grammar and English Lexicology Center (ASC) at the same university. Economy and International Relations Research Council Future Fellow and to undergraduates and General She received an MA degree from the and member of Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and University of Sydney, Australia and the Committee of Social Sciences Humanities, University of Tasmania. Linguistic Research Methodology and her PhD from Soochow University. in the charge of Chinese Ministry of She has qualifications in history and Thesis Writing to postgraduates, and She teaches various courses such Education. His other social positions heritage studies, with a specialisation supervising MA students majoring as Advanced English Essays and include: Vice Secretary-General in the Australian, Indigenous, Pacific, in Translation and Linguistics. He English Literature to undergraduates, of China National Association for imperial, postcolonial, and public is presently the director of Inner and Postcolonial Writers and their International Studies, Vice President history areas. Penny has extensive Mongolia University Australian works to the postgraduates as of Shanghai Institute for European professional experience in the cultural Studies Centre. He once studied well. She was visiting scholar at the Studies, Vice-President of China heritage sector, and has worked French at Beijing Language and English Department, the University Association for Russian, East in museums both nationally and Culture University (2006–2007) and of Birmingham (UK) in 2006 and at European and Central Asian Studies, internationally. Her books include Lausanne University in Switzerland the School of English, Media Studies Vice Secretary-General of Society Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous (2007–2008). He gained his doctoral and Art History, the University of for European Studies of China, Vice Peoples and Settlers in 19th–Century degree from Beijing Foreign Studies Queensland (Australia) in 2013. President of Society for International Pacific Rim Cities (University of British University in 2013 with his doctoral So far she has published critical Strategy Research (Shanghai), Vice Columbia Press, 2010); Making Settler dissertation A study of Modern French essays on Australian women’s President of Shanghai Association for Colonial Space: Perspectives on Linguistic Thinking (1865–1965) and writing and postcolonial literature in Foreign Friends. His major research Race, Place and Identity (Palgrave its Influence on Chinese Linguistics. key academic journals in China. In fields are Russian Politics, diplomacy, UK, 2010) coedited with Tracey He has written extensively on the 2011 she published a monograph social transition; great power relations Banivanua-Mar; and Conciliation influence of French linguistic thought “Survival and Wholeness”– A Study of and international politics theories. on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, on Chinese linguistics. He is author Some Postcolonial Women’s Writing Performance and Commemoration of three monographs and four (Zhejiang University Press). in Australia and the Pacific Rim translations (from French to Chinese) (Routledge, 2015) co-edited with and more than 30 papers. Kate Darian-Smith.

30 31 Richard Fidler Mark Finnane Stephen FitzGerald

Broadcaster, ABC Radio ARC Laureate Fellow and Former Australian Ambassador Professor of History at to China and Honorary Fellow at the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Richard Fidler presents Conversations Mark Finnane is ARC Laureate Fellow with Richard Fidler, an in-depth, up- and Professor of History at Griffith Stephen FitzGerald was China adviser close-and- personal interview program University. He has published widely to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and broadcast across Australia on ABC on the history of criminal justice, from 1973 to 1976 Australia’s first Local Radio and Radio National. policing, punishment, and criminal law Ambassador to the People’s Republic He’s interviewed prime ministers, in both Australia and Ireland. His most of China. In 1980 he founded the first astronauts, writers and scientists, but recent book, with Heather Douglas, private consultancy for Australians the program often features remarkable is Indigenous crime and settler law: dealing with China, which he ran until people who are unknown to the white sovereignty after Empire (2012). 2008. He has held professorial posts wider world. In 2013 he was awarded an ARC at three Australian universities and Laureate Fellowship (2013–18) to been involved in public policy for Richard has also presented several research the history of prosecution closer relations with China and Asia. television series over the years, and the criminal trial in Australia. He is currently a Board Member of including the acclaimed Race Around the independent public policy the World, and he was the creator initiative, China Matters, and an of Aftershock, a documentary series Honorary Fellow at the China on disruptive new technologies. In Studies Centre at The University of another life Richard was a member Sydney. His latest book is Comrade of the Australian comedy trio The Ambassador: Whitlam’s Beijing Envoy, Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS), which (September 2015). played to audiences all over the world.

32 33 Teruhiko Fukushima Bill Gammage Yoko Harada

Department of International Emeritus Professor, Humanities Independent Researcher, Relations, National Defense Research Centre, the Australian Tokyo Academy of Japan National University (ANU)

Teruhiko Fukushima joined the Bill Gammage is an emeritus Yoko Harada is an independent Department of International Relations, professor in the Humanities Research researcher currently based in Tokyo. National Defense Academy of Centre at the Australian National After finishing her BA (English Japan in March 2009, as a professor University (ANU) in Canberra. He Literature) at Kobe College, Japan, specialising in Oceania. Before grew up in western New South Wales, she worked for a Japanese retailing then, he taught Australian studies and was an ANU undergraduate and company for 17 years before moving and international relations at the J. postgraduate before teaching history to Australia to undertake postgraduate F. Oberlin University in Tokyo since at the Universities of Papua New studies. She was awarded a Master 1991. Fukushima writes extensively Guinea (1966, 1972–6) and Adelaide of Social Change and Development on Australian politics, foreign policy (1977–96). He wrote The Broken Years (2003) and PhD (History and Politics) and diplomatic history, especially on Australian soldiers in the Great War at the University of Wollongong on Japan-Australia relations. He (1974), An Australian in the First World (2009). She continued her research has been the President of the War (1976), Narrandera Shire (1986), in Australia as an Alfred Deakin Australian Studies Association of The Sky Travellers on the 1938–39 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Japan since 2013. Fukushima has a Hagen–Sepik Patrol in New Guinea Deakin University between 2010 and PhD in International Relations from (1998), and The Biggest Estate on 2012. Her research interest remains the Australian National University, a Earth: How Aborigines made Australia Australia: its history, politics and Masters in International Relations and (2011), which won the 2012 Prime culture. She is currently exploring the a Bachelor in Liberal Arts from the Minister’s Prize for Australian History. history of whaling in Australia. University of Tokyo. He co-edited the Australians 1938 volume of the Bicentennial History of Australia (1988), and three books about Australians in World War 1. He was historical adviser to Peter Weir’s film Gallipoli and to several documentaries. He served the National Museum of Australia for three years as Council member, deputy chair and acting chair. He was made a Freeman of the Shire of Narrandera in 1987, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1991, and an AM in 2005.

34 35 Benjamin Herscovitch Han Feng Kevin Hobgood-Brown

Research Manager, China Academy of Social Managing Director, Foundation China Policy Sciences (CASS) for Australian Studies in China, and Managing Director, Riverstone Advisory

Dr. Benjamin Herscovitch is a Professor Han Feng is Deputy Director Research Manager at China Policy, of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Kevin Hobgood-Brown is the San Francisco, Taipei and Sydney. a Beijing-based policy analysis Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Managing Director of the Foundation He handled investment projects and strategic advisory firm, and a (CASS), China. A graduate from for Australian Studies in China. He throughout China and in almost all columnist for China Spectator, the Peking University, Professor Han’s also serves as the Managing Director of Australia’s major Asian trading leading chronicle of China-Australia research focuses on security and of Riverstone Advisory, a corporate partners. Hobgood-Brown is the affairs. His research focuses on Sino- international relations in the Asia- advisory firm that specialises in Deputy Chairman of the Australian Australian relations, Chinese foreign Pacific, politics and foreign policy mergers and acquisitions involving government’s eight-member Australia- policy, and Asia-Pacific security. His of Australia and New Zealand, and China-based mineral resources China Council and serves on the articles, commentary and interviews Southeast Asia. From March 1994 to companies. Previously, Hobgood- Audit Committee of the Council. He are regularly published and broadcast April 1995, he was a Visiting Scholar Brown served as Group Executive is the Immediate-Past Chairman of by major Chinese and international at the University of Tasmania. His and General Counsel for Sino Gold the Australia China Business Council news media outlets, including The major works include Contemporary Mining Limited. Hobgood-Brown has (ACBC), having served on the Board Globe and Mail, South China Morning Australia: Social Change and over 25 years of management and of Directors of the ACBC since 1999. Post, Al Jazeera English, and Sky New Developments in Politics and legal experience in the Asia Pacific He is a member of the Advisory News. Before joining China Policy, Economy (2004) and many other region and has been based in Sydney Board to the China Studies Centre of Benjamin was a foreign policy academic articles and opinion since 1996. He was one of a small Sydney University. Hobgood-Brown Research Fellow at the Centre for pieces. He is also Vice President, group of international lawyers to is a member of the Global Council of Independent Studies and a Desk China Association of Southeast Asian work in Beijing in the early 1980s. Mr. the Asia Society and taught at the Law Officer at the Australian Department of Studies, and Secretary General, China Hobgood-Brown was an international School of Peking University from 1983 Foreign Affairs and Trade. Asia-Pacific Studies. law firm partner for 18 years, in which to 1987. capacity he had postings in Beijing,

36 37 Hou Minyue Hu Dan Hu Yuling Hu Zhuanglin

Chair & Deputy Director, Assistant Professor, Beijing Australian Studies Centre, Honourary Director of the Australian Studies Centre, Foreign Studies University Renmin University of China Australian Studies Centre, East China Normal University and PhD candidate, Peking University University of Western Sydney

Professor Hou Minyue is Dean of Hu Dan teaches Australian Economy Hu Yuling is a PhD student in the Hu Zhuanglin was Lecturer, English Department, Deputy Director and Its Economic Relations with Australian Studies Centre, Renmin Associate Professor and Professor at of Australian Studies Centre, at East China, Legal Translation, Interpretation University of China and lecturer at Peking University (1973–1996) and China Normal University. Having and other BA and MA courses at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Chairman of the English Department earnestly devoted himself to Australian School of English and International She pursued her Masters degree in (1985–1993). He was a member studies in China, he has had extensive Studies. Her research area is China- Renmin University of China, and her of China Ministry of Education’s publications including A History of Australia relations, especially on the thesis was Tall Poppy Syndrome: An Foreign Languages Teaching Sino-Australian Relations (1999), economic front. Her PhD thesis, which Australian Cultural Myth. In 2003, she Guidance Committee (1987–1997) The Impact of China’s Modernisation is to be completed, examines China’s graduated from Renmin University and Vice-Chairman of China English on Relations with Australia (2005), investment in Australia during the of China, and began to work as an Education Association (1987–2001). Sino-Australian Trade and Investment Labor government and the latter’s FDI English teacher in Beijing Foreign He was the first Chairman of China Relations in Energy and Mineral policy and approach towards China. Studies University. From September Functional Linguistics Association Resources Sectors (2014), and many Hu was a delegate to the 2015 China 2011 to October 2012, she was a (1995–2003) and Honorary Chairman other articles in such academic and Australia Millennial Project ChAFTA visiting scholar at Virginia University. since 2003. He was one of the first professional journals as Asian Journal Thinktank, exploring opportunities Her research interests are Australian group of 9 Chinese visiting scholars of Political Science, The Journal of and challenges faced by businesses culture, George Morrison and ESL in Sydney University (1979–1981) and East Asian Affairs, Global Change following the signing of Free Reading. Currently, she is working on was appointed as Director of PKU Peace & Security. He earned his Ph.D. Trade Agreement. a project on Morrison. Australian Studies Centre (1997– from La Trobe University, Australia. 2014). He is currently also Chairman Hu is now chairing and participating in of China Language and Semiotics several projects on China’s investment Association, honorary Chairman of in Australia and Australia’s investment China Discourse Analysis Association policy, with funding from the National and China Stylistics Association. His Social Science Fund, Australia- latest book to appear soon is Cross China Council, Information Center The Pacific to be published by PKU for Worldwide Asia Research and Press, a collection of his papers on BFSU. She is also a regular media Australian Studies in the past 20 commentator, including on China years. He is Emeritus Professor of Central Television and in The PKU since 2005. Financial Review.

38 39 Liangqin Jiang Mayumi Kamada Mei-fen Kuo

History Department, Faculty of Economics, ARC DECRA Research Nanjing University Nagoya University of Fellow, School of Historical Commerce and Business and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland

Liangqin Jiang is a professor in Professor Kamada has had a long Mei-fen Kuo is an ARC DECRA History Department at Nanjing association with the Australian Studies Research Fellow in the School University. She received her PhD in Association of Japan, and was its of Historical and Philosophical Modern Chinese History from Nanjing vice-president from 2004 to 2010. Inquiry at University of Queensland, University. Her research interests After graduating from Tsuda College Australia, where she is working on include Chiang Kai-Shek and the in Tokyo in 1981, she studied at a historical project on Enterprising national government, Madame Chiang Griffith University (awarded MPhil in Chinese Australians and the diaspora Kai-Shek and Soong-Kong family, 1985), and at the Australian National networks, 1890–1949. After she the development of government University (awarded PhD in 1990). was awarded a PhD degree by La finance during the Republic of China, Trobe University, she won several Her research interests are in the history and memory of Nanjing internationally competitive awards Australia’s nation building, and she Massacre, and intellectual groups which supported her research on the has been undertaking research about and higher education during the social history of Chinese diaspora. multiculturalism, reconciliation with Republic of China. From 2013 to 2015 she worked on a Indigenous people, and Australia’s project of Asia-Pacific Philanthropies public memories of wars. She and Chinese diaspora network, edited the book Reframing National 1850–1949 at Swinburne University Memory: Stories from Australia of Technology. She has published and Japan about the Pacific War two books: Making Chinese Australia: (Ochanomizushobo, 2012). She has Urban Elites, Newspapers and the also contributed to many books, Formation of Chinese-Australian including Introduction to Australia Identity, 1892–1912 published by (Tokyo University Press, 2007), and Monash University Publishing, 2013), Indigenous Australia and Japan: shortlisted for the W K Hancock Prize Studies, Interaction, Representation of Australian Historical Association, (Ochanomizushobo, 2014). and Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang 1911–2013 (co-authored with Professor Judith Brett) published by Australian Scholarly Publishing.

40 41 Li Jianjun Heejin Lee Martin Leer James Leibold Australian Studies Centre, Director, Centre for Maître D’enseignement et de Senior Lecturer, Department School of English and Australian Studies, Recherche and Head of the of Politics and Philosophy, International Studies, Beijing Yonsei University section for Contemporary La Trobe University Foreign Studies University Literature in the Département de Langue et Littérature Heejin Lee is a Professor at the anglaises, Faculté de Lettres, James Leibold is a Senior Lecturer in Li Jianjun is Director of the Australian Graduate School of International Université de Genève Politics and Asian Studies at La Trobe Studies Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies, Yonsei University, Korea. He University in Melbourne, Australia. He Studies University and Secretary- has a multidisciplinary background: is the author, most recently, of Ethnic General of the National Association of management (BA), sociology (MA) Martin Leer holds his undergraduate Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable Australian Studies in China. He was at Seoul National University, and degrees from the University of (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2013) a Visiting Scholar at Griffith University information systems (PhD) at London Copenhagen, Denmark and his PhD and co-editor (with Chen Yangbin) of in 2002 and has been the chief School of Economics. Before Yonsei, from the University of Queensland, Minority Education in China: Balancing coordinator for the Australian Studies he worked at The University of Australia. He has taught at the Unity and Diversity in an Era of Critical Collection at Beijing Foreign Studies Melbourne and Brunel University. Universities of Copenhagen, Odense, Pluralism (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Library. His publications His areas of research and interest Florence and Nuuk, Greenland. He is University Press, 2014). include papers on Christina Stead include standards and standardisation currently Maître d’enseignement et de and an edited book Australia Through His research centers on the politics including breaks of gauge in Australia. recherche and Head of Contemporary the Eyes of the Chinese (2009). and polysemy of minzu He founded the Centre for Australian Literature at the University of Geneva, He teaches Australian literature at (ethnicity, nationality, nation, and Studies in 2008. CAS is the only one Switzerland. His research concerns Beijing Foreign Studies University. His race) in modern Chinese history and of its kind in Korea, and plays a key literary geography, literature and the current research interest is Australian contemporary Chinese society. His role in linking Australian and Korean environment, postcolonial literatures, literature in Chinese translation. In research findings have appeared academia. He was awarded an literature and money, poetry and 2015 he was awarded the inaugural in leading academic journals, Australian Government Endeavour poetics. He has published widely on Professor Hu Zhuanglin Distinguished such as the China Quarterly, The Executive Fellowship in 2013. Australian literature. Translation Fellowship hosted by the China Journal, and The Journal of Australian Studies Centre at Asian Studies, and he is a frequent Peking University. commentator on ethnic issues in China for the international media.

42 43 Li Yao Gregory McCarthy Benjamin Mountford

Professor of English, Training University of Adelaide Federation University Centre of Commerce Department, Australia, Honorary Senior Visiting Professor of Beijing Research Fellow Foreign Studies University Professor Gregory McCarthy currently has a professorial position at the University of Adelaide in Political Li Yao holds a Degree of Doctor of Dr Benjamin Mountford is an Honorary Science and has been appointed to a Letters awarded by the University of Senior Research Fellow in Federation’s professorial chair in Australian Politics Sydney. He is also Senior Translator, University’s Faculty of Education and at the University of Western Australia Visiting professor of Beijing Foreign Arts and Collaborative Research to coincide with his appointment Studies University, Member of the Centre in Australian History (CRCAH). as the Second BHP Billiton Chair of Writers’ Association of China, Council Originally from Western Australia, Australian Studies at Peking University, Member of the Australian Studies between 2008–2015 Ben researched commencing 1 February 2016. Association of China. Translator of and taught Australian, British and The Tree of Man, Fringe of Leaves, Greg McCarthy was educated at the Imperial History at the University of Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White; University of Adelaide (BA. Ph.D). Oxford. His first book on the coming True History of the Kelly Gang, His His main teaching and research together of the British and Chinese Illegal Self by Peter Carey; Woman interests are on Australian politics, Empires in colonial Australia will of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally Australia-China relations and the be published in 2016 by Oxford and The Oxford History of Australia internationalisation of higher education. University Press. etc. He is also winner of the Inaugural Greg McCarthy has held senior Australian Translation Prize for The management positions including the Ancestor Game by Alex Miller (1996), Head of School of Social Sciences winner of Australia-China Council (2009–2014), Acting Executive Dean 2008 Commendation for his translation and the Director of International of The Red Thread by Nicholas Jose, Engagement for the Faculty of Arts winner of Australia-China Council (2014). He is currently a co-director of 2012 Book Prize for Carpentaria two research centres, one in Beijing by Alexis Wright. Li Yao was also Foreign Studies University (BFSU), the winner of Golden Medallion awarded China-Australia Centre for Transcultural by Australia-China Council for his Studies (CATS), and one at the distinguished contribution in the field University of Adelaide, the Australia- of Australian Literature translation in China Centre for Transcultural Studies China, 2008. (ACTS). Professor McCarthy has been a regular media commentator on Australian politics. He has also served as National Vice-President for the National Tertiary Education Union.

44 45 Dr Raby is also a Director of ASX listed iSentia, Asia-Pacific region’s leading media intelligence company, and Non Executive Director of ASX listed YPB Group, a provider of security systems.

Dr Raby is also Co-Chair of leading law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s China practice and a Vice Chairman of Australia’s Geoff Raby largest investment bank and fund Ines Eben v. Racknitz Mathew Radcliffe manager, Macquarie Group Geoff Raby & Associates, (Greater China). Assistant Professor, School of PhD Candidate Department Beijing History, Nanjing University of Modern History, Politics At the same time, Dr Raby is the and International Relations, Chairman/CEO of his own advisory Macquarie University firm, Geoff Raby & Associates.

Dr Geoff Raby was the Australian Additionally, Dr Raby is a member of Dr. Ines Eben v. Racknitz studied at Mathew Radcliffe was a former Ambassador to China from 2006– the Advance Global Advisory Board. Renmin University in Beijing and at Engineering Officer in the Royal 2011. Following his completion of In recognition of his contributions Stanford University. She graduated in Australian Air Force (RAAF) before his Ambassadorial term, he decided to advancing the relations between 2003 from Freie Universität Berlin with studying Australian military history. to leave the government and Australia and China, Dr Raby is a MA in Sinology, Religious Studies His PhD thesis examined the many continue to make contribution to the honoured with the title of Friendship and Comparative Literature, and 2009 cultural and social dimensions of friendly cooperation and exchanges Ambassador to Shandong Province with a PhD in History from University the large RAAF base established between Australia and China in his and has been made an honorary of Konstanz. Since 2011 she has been at Butterworth in northern new capacities. He took up several citizen of Chengdu City. working as an Assistant Professor Malaya in 1955. independent directorship positions on Dr Raby was a Deputy Secretary of at the School of History at Nanjing the boards of several ASX-listed the Department of Foreign Affairs and University, teaching Chinese history. businesses, including the world’s 4th Trade (DFAT) from November 2002 Her research interests are the global largest iron ore supplier Fortescue to November 2006. He has held a and cultural history of Late Qing and Metal Group (FMG), gold and copper number of senior positions in DFAT, Republican China as well as military miner OceanaGold and coal mining including First Assistant Secretary, history. Her dissertation on the China group Yancoal Australia, wholly owned International Organisations and Legal expedition of 1860 and the looting and by Yankuang Group from China’s Division (2001-2002), Ambassador burning of the Yuanmingyuan (Old Shandong province. Dr Raby is the and Permanent Representative to the Summer Palace) appeared Chairman of ASX listed IT solution World Trade Organisation, Geneva as a book in 2012 at Franz Steiner business, Smartrans, a leading (1998-2001) and First Assistant Verlag Stuttgart. provider of Australia’s control system Secretary, Trade Negotiations Division for road traffic and newspaper/ (1995-1998). He was Australia’s APEC publication delivery. Ambassador from November 2002 to December 2004.

47 David Reeve John Scheckter Ipsita Sengupta Jurgen Tampke

Conjoint Associate Professor Professor of English, Long Assistant Professor, Department University of Freiburg/ UNSW, ILTI Academic Island University, New York of English, Bankura University University of New South Wales Coordinator ACICIS

David Reeve has been visiting John Scheckter is a Professor of Ipsita Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Jurgen Tampke was born in Indonesia for 46 years as a diplomat, English at Long Island University, Department of English, Bankura Brandenburg Germany and migrated researcher, historian, language New York. He wrote the second University, is a PhD candidate at to Australia in the mid 1960s at teacher and project manager. One American doctoral dissertation on Jawaharlal Nehru University, New the end of the post World War Two of his positions there was as the Australian literature (Iowa, 1981), Delhi. A recipient of the Australia- European immigration era. He founding Australian lecturer in the and is a founding member (1985) India Council Fellowship in the graduated with Honours in History Australian Studies program at the and past president (2000–2004) of 2009 round, her research interests from Macquarie University in 1972 University of Indonesia in Jakarta from the American Association of include Australian-India connections, and a PhD from the Australian 1984 to 1987, teaching Australian Australasian Literary Studies. comparative literature, dialogue and National University in 1975. In 1976 history and literature. One of his translations between spaces and he was appointed lecturer in modern Scheckter’s critical speculation research interests has been the cultures and South Asia studies. European History at the University of starts with a close reading of primary influence of the Theosophical Society New South Wales and later promoted documents. His book on The Isle Ipsita has contributed several in Indonesia and India, a topic that he to Senior Lecturer, then Associate of Pines, for example, offers the research papers on the history of is now extending to China in the 1920s Professor. He took early retirement first full scholarly edition of Henry Australia-India connections in peer- to 1940s. He has worked mainly as a in 2005 but continued to work and Neville’s 1668 shipwreck fiction, reviewed international and national language teacher in the TAFE system publish in his fields of expertise, in and proceeds to an extended journals such as Southerly, Antipodes, and in Indonesian Studies/Asian particular German and Australian examination of seventeenth-century Indian Journal of Australian Studies Studies at UNSW. He retired from history. He is currently guest at the literary, political, and scientific etc.; her chapter titled “Entangled: UNSW in 2006 and is working on a University of Freiburg, Germany, and methodologies. In recent studies of Deakin in India” features in Australia’s biography of the Indonesian historian has just completed a monograph Australian material culture, he has Asia (2012), an interdisciplinary Ong Hok Ham, and on the Indonesian on the post World War One peace examined the operation of “discourse and interrogative meditation on the diaspora in South Africa, Sri Lanka, making: A malevolent falsification of networks” (Friedrich Kittler et al.) with subject, edited by David Walker and New Caledonia and Suriname. history: The Versailles peace and the regard to an international scientific Agnieszka Sobocinska. rise of Nazism. conference in 1914, the experience of an AIF major at Gallipoli, and the ornithological paintings of the contemporary artist John Wolseley.

48 49 Gwenda Tavan Sun Lizhou Stuart Ward

Senior Lecturer, College of Arts, Academy of China and World Professor of Imperial Social Sciences and Commerce, Agendas, Southwest University and Global History, La Trobe University of Political Science and Law University of Copenhagen

Dr Gwenda Tavan teaches in the Assistant Professor Sun Lizhou was born Stuart Ward is Professor of Imperial Department of Politics and Philosophy in Xinjiang, China’s muslim region in and Global History at the University at La Trobe University, Melbourne, 1981. He has multiethnic background in of Copenhagen, where he co- Australia. Her research interests his family, which facilitates his studies in founded the Copenhagen Centre for include Australian political culture, and international and cross-cultural issues. Australian Studies. Among his major the politics and history of immigration works are Australia and the British Sun Lizhou currently works as deputy and multiculturalism in Australian, Embrace (2001); an edited volume dean of China World Agenda Academy global and transnational contexts. for the Oxford History of the British and executive director of Himalaya Her numerous publications include Empire series, Australia’s Empire Institute, South West University of the award-winning book, The Long, (2008); and a co-authored book (with Political Science and Law in Chongqing, Slow Death of White Australia (Scribe, James Curran) The Unknown Nation: the biggest city of western China and 2005). She is currently completing a Australia After Empire (Melbourne Chinese capital during the Second biography of Arthur Calwell, Australia’s University Press, 2010). He is currently World War. In Beijing, Sun Lizhou also first immigration minister and has directing a collaborative project on the works as editorial writer for Green Living, recently commenced a large project fate of British identities after empire China’s most popular environmental on the history of the Commonwealth (see: www.embersofempire.ku.dk). magazine, as well as deputy director of Immigration Department. Pakistan Study Center, Tsinghua University.

Sun Lizhou has a PhD degree in diplomacy and bachelor degrees in both international politics and philosophy from Peking University. He has worked in the People’s Liberation Army as a strategic analyst and writes extensively for academic journals and media. He has published over 500 articles. His research fields include area studies in South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania. He is also interested in China’s borderland studies. Now, his research focus is China’s “One Belt, One Road” proposal and its impact on international relations.

50 51 Chunli Xing Xu Daozhi Zhang Wei Zhang Yongxian

School of Foreign Languages, PhD candidate at the School Professor of Journalism, Director, Australian Studies Beihang University of English, the University of Director of Australian Studies Centre, Renmin University Hong Kong Centre, Shantou University of China

Chunli Xing is currently a Visiting Xu Daozhi is a PhD candidate at the Professor Zhang was the founding Zhang Yongxian is Director of the Fellow at the School of Arts and School of English, the University of director of the Institute of the Australian Studies Centre, Renmin Media in the University of New Hong Kong. Her dissertation focuses International Communication Studies University of China, and member South Wales, a PhD candidate in the on the postcolonial narratives in at Nanjing University and is currently of the Oceania Council. Professor Australian Studies Centre at Tsinghua post-Mabo Australian children’s the director of the Australian Studies Zhang has a rich and diversified University, and an Associate Professor literature. Her research interests also Centre, Shantou University. Zhang’s work experience in many fields and in the School of Foreign Languages include graphic novels, cross-cultural major works include Politics and has published numerous books at Beihang University. Her major engagement, poetry translation, Freedom of the Press: a Comparison and articles. His major publications research interests include Australian and the theories of the gift. She of Australia and China (1997), include From English to Globlish literature, postcolonialism, critical has been a member of Australian Across Australia (2001), Comparative (YingYu FaZhanShi), English Culture whiteness studies and eco-criticism. Studies Centre at Renmin University Journalism: Methodology and Case and English Idioms. His has also She has presented her papers at of China since 2009, and a member Studies (2002), The Australian Media published articles in English, several international conferences of the International Australian Studies (2002), Tragic End of Those Elite such as ‘Heart of Darkness’ and on Australian studies and Australian Association (InASA) since 2015. Journalists Who Influenced China ‘Remembering Babylon – Compared literature, and her articles have during the 20th Century (2012), and Contrasted’ and ‘Who is Afraid been collected in Oceanic WH Donald Files: Adventure of an of Globalization’. Professor Zhang is Literature Studies and Australian Australian in Modern China (2013). also one of the translators of Anxious Cultural Studies. He was the winner of the Australia- Nation and Western Images of China China Council Book Prize in 2004, since 1945. 2010 and 2014.

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