Between – Picturing 1950-1960s Taiwan 間：臺灣五六十年代面影
Politics has had complex effects on the cultural life of Taiwan in the twentieth century. These forty-four works, curated from the collection of the National Museum of History (Taipei), offer subtle observations of Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s, from the perspectives of fifteen artists and photographers, as fresh and curious witnesses to lives in flux.
Taiwan: The View From the South 南望: 臺灣研討會
The conference aims to bring together scholars from Taiwan and around the world to discuss research on Taiwan, pre-historically, historically and in the contemporary world, as well as from all disciplinary backgrounds.
Watch the welcome address on our media page here.
ASIA 2003 Chinese literature — semester 1
Course convenor: Professor John Minford
Thursdays starting on 19 February until 28 May, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Embodying democracy in Chinese thought
What does Chinese thought as sixiang do? What is its purpose? Chinese thinkers no doubt have different answers to these questions but it is my contention that sixiang, as a discourse, is inextricable from a will to instruct people on how to live.
‘We’ll save ourselves’: student activism in contemporary Taiwan
Since 2008 a community of students have coordinated and led several high-profile social movements in Taiwan. These movements have touched on a range of social and political themes and received widespread support. In addition, many students have developed their friendships and careers around their activism, while participation has become a fashionable pastime amongst young people.
Picturing social realities: aesthetics, politics and Chinese photography groups, 1979-1989
In 1979, a group of young photography enthusiasts in Beijing formed one of the earliest unofficial photography groups, the April Photo Society, at the immediate starting point of the reform era. Between 1979 and 1981 the group were to hold three annual exhibitions, each presented under the single title Nature, Society and Man.
The regulation of Chinese investment in Zambia
Since the turn of this millennium, Chinese outbound direct investment (ODI) into Zambia has grown at phenomenal rate.
Fuqing dreaming: what drives Chinese investment migration in the South Pacific?
This talk will explore current domestic and international factors, as well as historical trends, that have led to mainland Chinese merchants dominating the retail trade in the South Pacific.
Development of modern art in Taiwan, 1930s-1990s: an introductory outline
On the occasion of the exhibition 'Between: Picturing 1950-60s Taiwan', CIW is pleased to announce a public lecture by Emeritus Professor John Clark (University of Sydney) on the Development of Modern Art in Taiwan, 1930s-1990s: An Introductory Outline.
Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu 春天: 許金玉的故事
Guided tours: Between – Picturing 1950-1960s Taiwan Exhibition
Gallery Tour
Politics has had complex effects on the cultural life of Taiwan in the twentieth century. These forty-four works, curated from the collection of the National Museum of History (Taipei), offer subtle observations of Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s, from the perspectives of fifteen artists and photographers, as fresh and curious witnesses to lives in flux.
The global market and China's right to speak: evaluating the ideas that drive Chinese...
David Murphy's research seeks to identify the ideas which form the Chinese discourse on trade policy and their relative influence. It is inspired by apparent shifts over the past decade away from neoliberal justifications for policy decisions as a growing suspicion towards China’s treatment in global markets has taken hold.
Why nuclear power as an energy option for Australia and the ten member-countries of ASEAN makes...
Peter Van Ness was convenor of an international workshop last August on Nuclear Power in East Asia: The Costs and Benefits, and this is his report on that three-day meeting.
Realising China's urban dream
China is urbanising at an unprecedented rate. If the current trend holds, China’s urban population could top one billion people in the next two decades. With the national policy promoting and guiding the process, urbanisation in China is perhaps the biggest experiment of human settlement in history, with profound social, economic and environmental implications.
The long shadow of the San Francisco Peace Treaty: East Asia from post-war settlement to 21st...
Location
Public Lecture — Auditorium Wednesday 15 April-Friday 17 April
Workshop — Seminar Rooms Thursday 16 April-Friday 17 April
Register by 10 April: https://bit.ly/SanFranshadow
This workshop and series of public lectures are free and open to the public but registration is essential.
Understanding Chinese as an object of learning
'Due to the challenges they encounter…they [undergraduates] lose interest and discontinue. [Those who continue] ultimately hit a bottleneck as they find it more and more difficult to increase their Chinese language level' (Yin, 2003).
'At advanced level they…continue to use vocabulary learned in beginner Chinese' (Xing, 2003).
China & ANU — diplomats, adventurers, scholars
Australia’s first diplomatic representative, or Minister, to China, Frederic Eggleston arrived in the wartime capital of the Republic of China, Chungking, in October 1941 — less than two months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour and the onset of the Pacific War.
The unpublicised agenda of President Xi Jinping
Veteran Sinologist Willy Lam, who has just published Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping (Routledge, 2015), will talk about the career, ideology and statecraft of the Fifth-Generation Communist Party leader, Xi Jinping.
Autumn hearts: literati identity politics in ‘the record of the citadel of sorrows’
MPhil Oral Presentation
Western discourses on China: orientalism reconsidered
Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) was a landmark in discourse analysis, cultural studies and postcolonial thought. In it, Said argued that the West had for over two thousand years constructed Asian peoples and cultures as an inferior and unchanging ‘Other’, attributing to them qualities that were antitheses of the virtues enshrined in the West’s idealised self-image.
Chinese opera performance
Chinese opera performances of The Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭, Every Note, Adiago 聲聲慢 and Farewell to Yuan the Second on a Mission to Anxi 送元二使安西
About the Performance
'Under the Dome': China's environmental crisis
Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion
Therapy postponed: psychoanalysis and its transformations in contemporary China
Psychological ideas, practices, and institutions have flourished in urban China since the early 2000s. Psychotherapy occupies a central position in this so-called 'psycho-boom' (xinli re). Dominating this psychotherapeutic landscape is psychoanalysis, a school that as the archetype of modern psychotherapies was singled out in the attacks against Western psychology during the Maoist period.
Inaugural China Matters national meeting
The inaugural China Matters National Meeting was held at the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at the Australian National University (ANU) on 22 May.
ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Xue Xinran
One in five of the world's population is Chinese, 300 million Chinese are under 30, and of these, most are only children as a result of the One Child Policy. What do these only children think and do? A generation burdened with high expectation and unprepared for responsibility.
Red flags? The experience of Chinese companies on the Australian Securities Exchange
This presentation will provide an overview of a research project into the performance of Chinese companies in Australia. It will identify and describe all of the Chinese companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX); outline the methodology employed to find these companies; and then detail the collective performance of Chinese companies to date.
China & ANU — Diplomats, adventurers, scholars
The Pacific War and its aftermath radically transformed Australian perceptions of what was then called 'the Near North' (Asia). Many recognised that in the postwar world Australia’s strategic interests and economic fortunes called for a new understanding of Asia and the Pacific. China loomed large in these calculations.
Landscape and the stakes of style: picturing the Qing in the Kangxi court
This talk explores the place of landscape in Qing court artistic production in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
One 'Chinese', different identities?
Since China began its rise in the early 1990s, the words 'China' or 'Chinese' have been represented and interpreted in a wide variety of ways, which have received different levels of acceptance in Greater China and among communities of Chinese diaspora.
Ink Remix: contemporary art from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Contemporary ink art has emerged as one of the most important artistic trends in recent years in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It has attracted significant attention internationally, and this is the first exhibition presented in Australia to respond to developments in ink art from across this region.
CANCELLED – Chin8514 China: wealth and power information session
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this information session has been cancelled.
The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) is offering a new Masters course in second semester 2015. The course will be delivered online and is available to ANU Masters' students.
China’s national security in the information age
In 2014, President Xi Jinping took formal control of all economic, security and military aspects of cyber policy in the country. He opined that there can be no national security without cyber security and no modernisation without informatisation. He said the Communist Party would do everything necessary for China to become a cyber power.
The Chinese Mayor (2015)
Directed by Hao Zhou, 2015, 89 Minutes, Chinese with English subtitles
An extraordinary insight into contemporary China, with a visionary politician trying to balance massive cultural development with grassroots interests and party politics.
China's emerging roles in the international refugee protection regime
In February 2014, China’s Vice Foreign Minister, Mr Li Baodong, criticised Australia’s refugee policy during the 15th Australia-China Human Rights Dialogue. In response, Australian commentators claimed that Li’s comments were hypocritical and that Beijing did itself no favour by raising the refugee issue.
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
CIW Film Screening
Directed by Alan Taylor and starring Ian Holm, 2001, 107 mins
5:00pm Drinks Reception
5:30pm Film Screening
Australia 360: how is Australia travelling in today’s world?
As the axis of global power spins back towards Asia and the Pacific, is Australia well-placed to react to a rapidly-shifting world? Are we doing all we can to meet the challenges and opportunities in this ‘Asian century’, and how might we strengthen our place in our own neighbourhood?
China’s political economy under Xi Jinping
In China, politics and economics are entwined. Politics have direct impact on the economy, and the economic performance has political implications. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China has entered a new era with distinctive characteristics in economic development and political dynamics.
Globalisation in the locale and the locale in globalisation: a comparison of Hui identity in south...
Since the 1990s, globalisation has affected the presentation of ethnicity in China, though it has done so in different ways across China. In this paper I analyse the different impact of globalisation on Hui identity in southern Fujian and in Nanjing.
China, Australia and the wider world
Since Xi Jinping came to power, his foreign policy rhetoric has emphasised ‘win-win cooperation’, ‘shared interests’ and the neighbourhood.
'Understanding wine by understanding tea': comparing the promotion of tea and wine...
Just as tea occupies an important place in Chinese civilisation, so wine has associations with Western civilisation. Both have attracted cultures of connoisseurship and are surrounded by a sophisticated knowledge of plant cultivation, processing skills, and sensory experiences.
Anti-corruption campaigns in the Xi Jinping era and its political implications
Since 2012, Xi Jinping has engaged in a massive anti-corruption campaign. This presentation will discuss the nature and the purpose of this campaign and how it relates to Xi’s concentration of power.
Fathoming the orient: Australian narratives
In the century from the 1880s to the 1980s there were numerous accounts of what ‘the rise of Asia’ would mean for Australia. While it can be reasonably argued that Australia underwent considerable change across this period there were also continuities in the way ‘Asia’ was represented, understood, and explained.
Weak state, soft power: the treaty-port English press and the formation of China’s international...
Soft power is commonly regarded as the privilege of strong countries with the resources required to target international audiences. In this seminar, I tell the story of how a weak China managed to establish an effective international propaganda system and have its voice heard during the Sino-Japanese war (1931-1945).
Stephen FitzGerald — Comrade ambassador: Whitlam's Beijing envoy
Public Seminar and Book Launch
CIW Chinese literature — semester 2
Presented by: Professor John Minford
Thursdays starting on 24 September until 29 October, 11:00am–1:00pm
Chinese hegemony in East Asian history
This seminar will explore the strategic and institutional dynamics of international relations in East Asian history when imperial China was the undisputed regional hegemon.
Mobility, intimacy and decolonisation: the 'Chinese Australian problem' after 1949
In the first half of the twentieth century, a significant number of mixed-race Chinese Australian families made use of imperial networks to establish families and businesses in both Australia and China, settling mostly in the treaty-port city of Shanghai.
The lobbying of Chinese elite universities
Despite growing research on lobbying in China, little is known about how Chinese universities do it. The perspectives, strategies and tactics of elite universities have long been hidden from view, and difficult to research. Yet, universities have accumulated capacity to influence higher education policies and advance individual and collective interests.
The impact of enforcement campaigns on China’s legal system
This talk examines the role played by regulatory failure campaigns in shaping the development of China’s particular version of the ‘rule of law.’ Campaigns are employed on a regular basis to address perceived crises arising from shortcomings in the legal regulatory regime and to deal with problems that regular enforcement strategies have failed adequately to address.
New Sinology in the Xi Jinping era
When Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012, he declared that the Party was travelling along a 'Chinese path' 中国道路 into the future; it would not follow the 'old path' 老路 of Maoism or pursue the 'arrant paths' 邪路 of Western-style market democracy, rather it was forging a course unique unto itself.
China and Eurasia: how much does the past matter?
In conversation with Emerita Professor Marika Vicziany, Asian Studies (Monash University); Professor Carolyn Stevens, Japanese Studies (Monash University); and Professor Gloria Davies, Chinese Studies (Monash University)
Introduction by Dr Benjamin Penny, Centre on China in the World (ANU)
China Story Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny — book launch & panel discussion
Public Seminar and Book Launch
The power of new: minor party politics in contemporary Taiwan
In the wake of a series of social movements since 2008, several new organisations and individuals have entered Taiwan’s politics. Inspired by activist experiences, these actors are channelling dissident political expression into organised competitive forces to contest legislative elections.
An ethnographic study of Sudanese businesspeople in Southeast China
On 18 June 2012, following the death of a Nigerian trader in police custody in Guangzhou city, in the province of Guangdong, more than one thousand African migrants organized a protest to disrupt public transportation. They demanded an explanation of the death of the young Nigerian and agitated for improved protection of African citizens living in the city.
Launch of China Story Yearbook 2014 and the Australia-China story website
Book and Website Launch
Professor Shirley Leitch, Pro Vice-Chancellor (International and Outreach), The Australian National University, invites you to celebrate the launch of China Story Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny
Launched by Dr Andrew Leigh MP, with a brief introduction by Professor Geremie R Barmé
The art of Kunqu and Peking opera
In this lecture-recital, Ms. Tang Yuen-ha will describe her experiences as a student of Maestro Yu Zhenfei, the last of the great exponents of traditional Chinese opera, and the traditional system of theatrical training (the old-fashioned keban科班 and the modern xixiao戲校). She will briefly touch on the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of this great theatrical art form. Ms.
Masculinity, homo-sociality/sexuality and class: reflections on two late imperial novels
Registration required: comms.library@anu.edu.au
