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China has arguably the largest community of Australian studies in the world. This volume unpacks how Australia is taught, learned, researched, communicated, and promoted in the Asian giant in a means to understand the representation and essence of this phenomenon.
List of contents
Contents Foreword
Kevin Hobgood-Brown
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction Chapter 1. Australian studies with Chinese characteristics
Richard Hu
Part I Australian Studies in Greater ChinaChapter 2. Australian studies in mainland China: A disciplinary analysis
Diane Hu and Ying Li
Chapter 3. Australian studies in Taiwan: A personal account
To-hai Liou
Part II Ambassadors, Agencies, and Channels Chapter 4. The ripples that continue to spread out: The Gang of Nine and their influences on Chinese foreign studies
Guanglin Wang
Chapter 5. 'The Council's flagship program': The Australian Studies in China Program of the Australia-China Council and the Foundation for Australian Studies in China
David Carter
Chapter 6. Building networks for deepening engagement: The Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration
Andrew Podger
Part III Education, Translation, and Disciplinary DevelopmentChapter 7. Teaching English and Australian studies in China: From the Maoist to the Xi'ist era
Colin Mackerras
Chapter 8. Localising an Australian studies course: The teaching of Australian children's literature in Inner Mongolia
Wuyungaowa
Chapter 9. Translating Australian literature into Chinese for forty years
Li Yao and Meili Yi (translator)
Chapter 10. The rise of area and country studies and its implications for Australian studies in China
Chengyi Wu and Chenyu Ding
Part IV Chinese Studies with Australian Characteristics Chapter 11. Promoting China understanding in Australia: The role of the Australia-China Council, 1979-1984
Jocelyn Chey
Chapter 12. Chinese studies in Australia: An Antipodean school of education and research
Jocelyn Chey and Shirley Chan
About the author
Richard Hu is a professor at the University of Canberra. He is the author of
Reinventing the Chinese City (Columbia University Press, 2023) and the editor of the
Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities (Routledge, 2023), among other books.
Diane Hu is an assistant professor and the deputy director of the Australian Studies Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University, as well as the deputy general secretary of the Chinese Association for Australian Studies. She is also a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Summary
China has arguably the largest community of Australian studies in the world. This volume unpacks how Australia is taught, learned, researched, communicated, and promoted in the Asian giant in a means to understand the representation and essence of this phenomenon.
