Members - by name
Academic staff
Armstrong, Shiro
Sino-Japan economic and political relations; East Asian economic integration; International trade and foreign direct investment; East Asian economies
Bai, Xuemei
Urbanization and its resource and environmental impacts in Asia, including urban environmental management; urban energy and material flows; urban land use expansion and its impact on agriculture; eco-city development; sustainability transition in Chinese and Asian cities
Barmé, Geremie
20th century Chinese intellectual and cultural history; contemporary Chinese cultural and intellectual debates; modern historiography; Ming-Qing literature and aesthetics; Cultural Revolution history (1950s-70s) and Beijing, its history and reconstruction
Bennett, Jeff
Land and water degradation, changing land use in China
Social and political history of Inner Asia in the Qing & Republican periods; Sino-Russian relations; Uyghur nationalism; Islamic historiography and hagiography; Altaic linguistics
Campbell, Duncan
Chinese language and literature, modern and classical; aspects of late imperial Chinese material and literary culture, with particular reference to travel and travel writing, gardens (and their pictorial and literary representation), private libraries and book collecting; aspects of the history of translation.
Chen, Chunlai
China's domestic grain marketing reforms; the impact of WTO on China's agriculture; foreign direct investment in China
Chen, Sue
Contemporary Chinese print culture, histories of reading, and children's literature
Cliff, Tom
The experience of being Han in 21st-century Xinjiang
Cui, Lin
FDI in and from emerging markets; internationalisation of Chinese firms; reinvestment and divestment strategies in emerging markets; foreign market entry mode theories; cross-cultural organisational learning
Drysdale, Peter
International trade and economic policy; Australia's economic relations with East Asia and the Pacific; the economies of East Asia, including Japan, China and Korea, and economic policy, including relations between East Asia, Europe and APEC
Dubois, Thomas
Modern Chinese history and religion
Classical Chinese Literature, Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone); Nineteenth Century American Literature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Garnaut, Ross
China's economic reforms and internationalisation; privatisation of state-owned enterprises; trade
Golley, Jane
Chinese regional development, industrial agglomeration and regional policy; Chinese economic growth, demographic change and the real exchange rate, Chinese household energy consumption and CO2 emissions, cross-country studies of trade openness, institutions and growth
Harris, Stuart
China's international relations, especially with the US; regional, notably Northeast Asian, economic, political and strategic developments; US and Australian foreign policy
Hillmann, Ben
Political change in Asia (especially China and Indonesia), democratisation, ethnic conflict, regional autonomy and comparative local governance
Health, citizenship and the political and moral economies of medical care and medical activism; health and illness communication (particularly HIV) on the formation of underclasses in China; Chinese celebrity activism, philanthrocapitalism and global economies of aid and AIDS
Jacka, Tamara
Gender relations in contemporary China; women in rural-urban migration; Chinese women's NGOs; approaches to gender and development; gender and suicide; and social differentiation in official and popular Chinese discourse
Ji, Fengyuan
Language, society and political discourse in China since 1949.
Kennedy, Andrew
International relations of China and India; energy security in Asia; US-China relations
Kent, Ann
China and international organisations, international human rights law, human rights in Australia and China, and China and international law
Kipnis, Andrew
Postsocialism and postsocialist societies; anthropology of Chinese education; processes of subjectification; kinship and gender; language and culture
Li, Tana
History of China-Southeast Asian relations and interactions; overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia; history of Vietnamese society, economy and technology, 15th-19th centuries; regional trade and the history of ports in the South China Sea region; Vietnamese historiography
Li, Bingqin
Housing, urbanisation, urban governance, social policy reform, migration;
Particular interest in China, in Asia more broadly, and in comparative;
Research between countries in Asia and in the West.
Liao, Hsin-tien
Taiwan Studies, sociology of art and culture, visual cultural studies, post-colonialism, cultural politics, art criticism, landscape painting, aesthetics and theory of calligraphy
Makeham, John
Chinese philosophy and intellectual history; the relationship between 'Confucianism' and Chinese cultural identity; relations between majority and minority cultures and societies, with particular reference to mainland China and Taiwan.
McKibbin, Warwick
Economic modeling; macroeconomic policy, environmental policy; demographic change; globalization and disease; international economic interdependence; global trade and financial policy.
Meng, Xin
Migration within China, labour markets, income distribution, savings behaviour, and poverty. Demographic change and its impact on pension reform in China
Minford, John
Chinese literature, classical and modern, especially Hongloumeng and Liaozhai zhiyi; modern martial arts fiction; contemporary Hong Kong literature; Chinese theatre and cinema; translation and history of translation; ancient Chinese philosophy
Morton, Katherine
China and international relations; global governance; environment and climate change, non-traditional security and international norms.
Narangoa, Li
History of Northeast China (Manchuria); Japan's relations with other Asian countries; Japan's colonial history, education, religion, literature and military; Mongolian history, identity and cities
Nesossi, Elisa
Contemporary Chinese law; criminal justice and human rights in China; Chinese legal history; human rights law and discourses and their process of localization
Penny, Benjamin
Religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China, in particular Falun Gong and the qigong boom; the interpretation of Chinese religions by westerners; Medieval Religious Daoism; the history of the religions of the Australian Chinese
Powers, John
Tibetan Buddhism; Himalayan Buddhist oral philosophy; representations of Tibet in popular culture; images of masculinity in Indian Buddhist literature
Qian, Ying
History and historiography of the Chinese revolution. Chinese socialism and post-socialism. History of media. Film and visual studies.
Rigby, Richard
International relations, security relations in the Asia-Pacific
Roberts, Claire
Chinese visual culture, art history and cultural history, in particular the period post 1800s; contemporary Chinese art; Chinese photography; the photography of China; Chinese textiles and dress; North Asian art, decorative arts and design; heritage studies; museum and curatorial studies
Ryu, Yongwook
IR theory; Korea, Japan, China and ASEAN; East Asian international relations; identity politics; regionalisation
Analyses of the 'local state', property rights, labour relations, and gender, policy and political economy in contemporary China
Smith, Graeme
Chinese resource projects in the Pacific; contemporary Chinese policy-making, state-society interactions, rural politics, bureaucratic contestation, resource projects, supply chains, and agribusiness
Song, Ligang
China's international trade; economic development and policy; privatisation of Chinese state-owned enterprises; regional disparities in China; Chinese telecommunications
Strange, Mark
Chinese traditional historiography; medieval Chinese political and intellectual history; Chinese traditional narrative; textual criticism
Tang, Beibei
political sociology, social stratification and mobility, sociology of China, and research methods
Tapp, Nicholas
Chinese ethnic minorities and the state, popular religion, poverty and underdevelopment among the Hmong, Miao, Dai and Tai-speaking peoples of Yunnan, Sichuan, etc
Tomba, Luigi
Chinese contemporary politics and society, labour markets and labour reform, urban politics, white collar workers, neighbourhood politics and governance, residential segregation, consumption and social classes
Tow, William
Alliance politics, US security policy in the Asia-Pacific, security politics in the Asia-Pacific, Australian security policies
Nationalist China's conservative revolution in the second quarter of the twentieth century; The interaction between China and India during the Republican period.
Tyers, Rodney
China's exchange rate policy; trade reform; effects on the labour market
Unger, Jonathan
Social stratification in China; rural Chinese social, political and economic change; workers and factory life; Chinese nationalism
Van Ness, Peter
Chinese foreign policy, Sino-American relations, human rights, security relations in the Asia-Pacific, and opportunities for reconciliation between China and Japan
Wang, Yanyan
Chinese language teaching methodology
Wei, Annie
Economic growth and demographic change; economic development and labour migration; total factor productivity and human capital
Chinese religion; Chinese political and intellectual history; traditional Chinese historiography; national and regional identity in Northeast Asia
Xu, Ying
Banking; Foreign Bank Entry; International Economics; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; China; Asia-Pacific Economies.
Zhang, Yanyin
Second language acquisition (Chinese and English), second language pedagogy, Chinese linguistics and lexicography, interlanguage pragmatics.
Zhao, Zhongwei
Health transition and mortality changes in China; past fertility behaviour in China
