This workshop will gather leading Dream of the Red Chamber scholars from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, US, and New Zealand at ANU's China in the World Centre. As the first global gathering of its kind, it will explore cutting-edge developments in literary and translation studies, with particular focus on Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone) as the pinnacle of classical Chinese literature. The symposium aims to foster cross-cultural dialogue, establish research collaborations, and elevate this vital field through interdisciplinary engagement, while promoting new frameworks for understanding this masterpiece's enduring global significance.
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The Publication Workshop Grant scheme is designed to support intellectually creative publication workshops on a China-related theme.
Past awards are listed below.
CIW Workshop on Australia-China relations
This special issue workshop brings together a collection of original contributions offering new perspectives on the evolving dynamics of Australia-China relations. The articles address a broad range of topics, including maritime security, strategic cooperation in the Pacific, asymmetrical power relations, economic interdependence, Antarctic engagement, and the pedagogy of teaching China-related content in Australia. Moving beyond conventional analyses, the contributions collectively explore the underlying motivations, tensions, and evolving complexities that shape the bilateral relationship. In doing so, the special issue seeks to enrich and advance academic and policy debates on this increasingly debated and consequential relationship.
CIW Workshop on Post-land-finance Chinese Local Governments
This workshop generates new scholarship on China's local government development strategies in the post-land finance era. For decades China's local governments have been the primary driving force of China’s economic development and policy innovation. They financed their investments through land sales and borrowing. But the bursting of the property bubble and the central government's crackdown on local government debt have brought an end to the dominant development paradigm in China's urban and rural localities. Local government responses will be critical to the success of the next phase of China's economic development, including advanced manufacturing and agricultural modernization.
CIW Workshop on ‘China’s Order-Building Ideas, Narratives and Practices’
The international order is in disarray, driven by Trump 2.0 and a more assertive China. Analyses typically frame China as an ‘illiberal’ great power challenging the ‘liberal international order’ and establishing a separate rival order. This perspective, however, neglects China’s interaction and hybridity with the existing order as well as its own sets of self-referential order-making ideas and practices. By critically interrogating the drivers, intentions and effects of China’s order-building ideas, narratives and practices, this workshop seeks to offer a more complex, comprehensive and updated conceptualisation of China’s engagement with an evolving international order.
CIW Workshop: Contesting Chinese Norms in the Global Marketplace
This workshop interrogates consumers’ responses to China’s trade restrictions and consumer nationalism. Since the 2000s, China has weaponised its economic interdependence to punish countries and foreign companies that deemed to undermine the country’s sovereignty claims and regime stability. Over the years, target countries and companies have devised strategies to mitigate risks in their economic cooperation with China. The responses from consumers are under-explored. In the light of this, the workshop will bring together experts in politics-driven consumption from the Asia-Pacific region to explore the motivations, experience and impacts of consumers’ responses to challenges posed by the lucrative but volatile Chinese market.