Australian Centre on China in the World

An ‘assembly’ can be a temporary collective with a shared sense of purpose, or a creative, resilient (and sometimes precarious) construction.

This paper explores the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to politically mobilize the workforce of Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang), then China's largest steel enterprise, during the firs

Nalan Xingde or Nara Singde 納蘭性德 (1655-1685) is regarded as one of the greatest lyric (ci 詞) poets of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644-1912).

The 1990s in China saw the advent of “Republican Fever”, a popular nostalgia for perceived openness and freedom during the Republican era in mainland China (1912–1949), and

China’s Social Credit System has fundamentally re-shaped global discussions of surveillance, with references to it spread across legislation and parliament

Crisis moments like the 2019 Hong Kong protests or the COVID-19 pandemic have shone a spotlight on how divided political opinions are across the Chinese-speaking world, often along fault lines crea