Month: June 2014

China’s West and Tibet

PUBLIC LECTURE, SYDNEY IDEAS A China Studies Centre Distinguished Speaker Lecture co-presented with the Australian Centre on China in the World at ANU and the Australia Institute of International Affairs. Date: 6.00pm – 7.30pm, 16 July 2014 Venue: Law School…

China Symposium @ UMelb

SYMPOSIUM 5:00pm to 7:00pm, Wednesday 9 July 2014 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and Faculty of Business and Economics The China Symposium brings together leading academics and policy advisors to…

Beijing by Linda Jaivin

BOOK LAUNCH 6pm Wednesday 9 July 2014 Asia Bookroom, Unit 2, 1 – 3 Lawry Place, Macquarie, ACT Linda Jaivin in conversation with Geremie Barmé About the book: Beijing is an intimate and informed portrait of a city at the…

Peach Girl (1931)

FILM SCREENING Australia’s Silent Film Festival 2014 26 July 2014 Director: Wancang Bu Starring: Ling Yu Ruan and Yan Jin Duration: 94 mins Accompanist: John D’Arcy Originally titled Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood, this outstanding Chinese silent film represents…

The New Emperors by Kerry Brown

BOOK LAUNCH 6pm – 8pm, 22 July 2014 The Glover Cottages, 124 Kent Street, Millers Point 2000 Professor Kerry Brown reveals the rise of a new generation of powerful princelings in China. How does one become the leader of the…

The Making and Remaking of China’s Red Classics

SYMPOSIUM Bursaries available for doctoral students/early career researchers University of Queensland 18-20 July 2014 A symposium on the topic ‘The Making and Remaking of China’s “Red Classics”: Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture in Literary Icons of Socialism and their Contemporary…

China’s Foreign Policy by Stuart Harris

BOOK LAUNCH Launched by: The Hon Bob Hawke AC, former Prime Minister of Australia Great Hall, University House, Balmain Crescent, ANU 5:30pm to 7:00pm, Thursday, 19 June 2014 Professor Harris has been a highly distinguished participant in Australian public and…

ChinaScape: Transcending Space and Time

CONFERENCE 2014 Chinese Studies Research Day 14 November 2014, University of Melbourne Organised by the Chinese Studies Research Group at the University of Melbourne Sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, the University of Melbourne Research Day Aims: –…

Last words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin

BOOK LAUNCH 15 June 2014 This event is presented by China Studies Centre, Department of Chinese Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, and gleebooks. To be launched by Mabel Lee. When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin…

25 years since Tiananmen

MEDIA INTERVIEW From ABC: Professor Geremie Barmé from the ANU Centre on China in the World says Tiananmen Square came at the end of a growing call for democratic reform but was no different to how the Chinese government had…