Month: February 2016

China’s one child policy, marriage markets and crime

Centre for Contemporary China Studies, University of Melbourne Stealing my way to your heart: China’s one child policy, marriage markets and crime Professor Lisa Cameron Monash University 5.30-7.00pm Thursday 24 March, 2016 Room 321, Level 3 Sidney Myer Asia Centre,…

Fluid Trajectories

Changing conceptions of phlegm and other matters National Library of Australia Dr Natalie Köhle, ANU 6pm-7pm, Thursday 3 March 2016 Conference Room, Level 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Dr Natalie Köhle, postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University, talks…

China’s Rise and the Global Order

Asia Society at the National Library of Australia Josette Sheeran, President and CEO, Asia Society 4pm-5pm, Thursday 25 February 2016 Theatre, Lower Ground 1, National Library of Australia, Canberra Asia Society Australia and the National Library of Australia have partnered…

Pu’erh Tea

National Library of Australia Dr Jinghong Zhang 2pm-3pm, Sunday 21 February 2016, Conference Room, Level 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Join anthropologist Jinghong Zhang as she presents a vivid account of the transformation of a cottage handicraft into a…

The British Encounter the Celestial Empire

CIW Lecture Series, National Library of Australia Dr Benjamin Penny 6pm-7pm, Thursday 18 February 2016 Conference Room, Level 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Benjamin Penny, Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU, discusses how two…

China, Tibet and the Colonial Question

Sydney Ideas Co-presented with the Sydney Democracy Network and the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney Associate Professor Dibyesh Anand Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster 6.00pm – 7.30pm, Wednesday 9 March 2016 Law School Foyer, Level…

Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize 2016

Dr Luigi Tomba of the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University, has been awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize of 2016 for the best book on post-1900 China for The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban…

The role of cybersecurity in Chinese foreign policy

National Security College and the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU Jon Lindsay 12:30-1:30pm (refreshments served from noon), Thursday 18 February 2016 Auditorium, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU, Canberra China has…

ACRI Ambassadors Series

Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology, Sydney Ambassadors Series: David Irvine and Ric Smith 5.30 pm for a 6.00 pm start, concluding at 7.30 pm Tuesday 16 February 2016 Conference Room, National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra ACT The…