Past events
Culture and Political Change in Contemporary Taiwan
CIW Conference
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The official end of Martial Law in 1987 marked a significant moment in Taiwan’s process of democratization and the consequent period of rapid change. Now, thirty years...
On the ground in the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Ian Rowen
In 2014, the Sunflower Movement started as a youth-led protest against the near-passage of a trade deal between Taiwan and China. This sparked a 24-day...
Universal Values and Chinese Characteristics: A Perspective through the Revival of Confucianism in China Today
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Hoyt Tillman
The interactions and tensions between Western and Chinese ideas and values have a long and complex history. In recent years, however, hostility in China to...
Enterprising Chinese Australians in the early 20th century: capital, sociability, and diaspora nationalism
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Kuo Mei-fen
Research literature on contemporary entrepreneurship among overseas Chinese tends to focus on how individual Chinese migrants adjust to their host...
Inequality of Opportunity in Earnings in Rural China
PhD Mid-Term Review
Presenter(s): Xinjie Shi
This paper explores the role of ‘inequality of opportunity’ in individual earnings in rural China, which is attributed to ‘circumstantial’ factors over which individuals...
The Making of a Divine Domesticity: Nü duo, Christian women, and Republican China
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Zhou Yun
After the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911, leading figures of the young Republic called for a spirit of modernity based on Western learning. As part of...
The story of Chinese prosperity
Panel Discussion and Book Launch
Presenter(s): Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, and Merriden Varrall
“Prosperity” has been a significant theme in several of President Xi Jinping’s major speeches over the past year, both...
Roundtable Discussion: Recent changes in governance and the law in the PRC and Taiwan
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Various speakers
In this roundtable the speakers will offer perspectives on recent changes in governance and the law under Xi Jinping in the PRC and in Taiwan. The discussion...
One Movement, Two Nationalisms: Change in Hong Kong’s democracy movement
PhD Thesis Proposal review
Presenter(s): Benjamin Garvey
Hong Kong’s democracy movement has been in flux in recent years as optimism about the likelihood of China’s liberalisation has dissipated and as...
Illustrated classics: Confucian learning and its pictorial trend in the Song
PhD Mid-Term Review
Presenter(s): Yang Qin
The group of classics known as the Four Books and Five Classics 四書五經 has long formed the cornerstone of Confucian classical learning. Among the piles of...
