The Australian National University is one of the foremost institutions in the world outside of China for research and teaching about China. The university's academic staff includes close to fifty China specialists in the social sciences and humanities spread throughout a number of departments.

Chinese studies at the ANU are concentrated in the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies (RSPAS), the Crawford School of Economics & Government, and the Faculty of Asian Studies. All of these are components of the ANU's overarching College of Asian & Pacific Studies.

In addition, many other people invovled in the study of China belong to other areas of the ANU. Please refer to the members pages for more information.

The Faculty of Asian Studies specializes in history, literature, philosophy, and classical Sinology. It offers a range of China degree programs. Within the Faculty, the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories focusses on the teaching of Chinese history and society, while the Faculty's China & Korea Centre supports a large curriculum based on Chinese language and literature.

In the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, China specialists are spread across more than half a dozen academic units, with particular concentrations of senior researchers in the following:

The Crawford School of Economics & Government is active in research on the Chinese economy and political economy. This professional policy school offers academic coursework programs, and short, tailored executive programs for individual and corporate clients in the public and private sectors. Of the school's many research programs, the China Economy Business Program coordinates and projects into relevant external communities the research of ANU-based scholars on the Chinese economy and business. The school also coordinates the ANU's annual China Update.

In addition to those conducted directly by the ANU China Institute, projects related to the study of China at the ANU include:

• China Heritage Project: Division of Pacific & Asian History, RSPAS, CAP


• Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI): Research School of Social Sciences, CASS

The ANU library and nearby National Library of Australia house two of the largest Chinese-language collections outside China. The ANU library has approximately 160,000 Chinese-language volumes and 6,400 sets of Chinese journal serials in its stacks, plus very extensive electronic resources. The National Library of Australia in Canberra, located near the ANU, has 250,000 books in Chinese, 5,100 Chinese-language serials, and 250 Chinese-language newspaper subscriptions.