Category: Events

Governing Science in 21st Century China

Time: 5:00PM-6:10PM AEDT Date: 24 March 2023 Location: Online Registration China aims to become the world’s leading science power by 2050. The country’s political leadership want world-class universities, key laboratories, first-class disciplines and breakthrough discoveries to pave that way. Xi…

Marriage Stories on China’s ‘Miao Frontier’

Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM AEDTDate: 10 March 2023Location: Online Registration When he arrived in Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province, in the 1740s, Magistrate Xie Shenglun was aghast at the kinship and marriage practices of local “Miao” communities, including open courtship among youths and…

Malaysian Crossings: The Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature

Time: 12:00PM-1:00PMDate: 24 February 2023Location: OnlineRegistration No scholar of modern Chinese literary studies in its globalizing mode will miss the recent spotlight on Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature. Previously untapped, works from or about the Southeast Asian country are now read…

Queer Chinese Voices

Time: 4:00PM – 7:30PM AEDTDate: 14 March 2023Registration Queer Chinese Voices is the first forum of its kind, organised by the Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture (IAC) at Western Sydney University in partnership with the China Studies Centre (CSC) at the University…

China’s Foreign Policy in Xi Jinping’s Third Term

Date: Thursday 24 November 2022Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm AESTLocation: In-Person, Auditorium, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane The Australian National University Acton, ACT 2601 REGISTRATION About this event Chinese leader Xi Jinping tightened his grip…