Month: August 2016

The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan

Book Launch: China Studies Research Centre, La Trobe University The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard Join us for this book launch by Professor Bruce Jacobs exploring the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979-1980. He’ll give insight…

China’s Urban Frontiers: the City as Borderland

ANU China Seminar Series Professor Timothy Oakes Thursday 11 August, 4:00-5:30pm Seminar Room A, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU This paper will explore urban space as a borderland in China. While China’s borders are typically conceived…

Lectures on Translation

University of Melbourne Asia Institute Master of Translation program and Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies presents a series of special seminars and lectures by world-renowned scholar of literary translation Professor John Minford, Australian National University Professor Minford studied Chinese at…

National Parliamentary Fellowship Program in China

Applications for the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research’s National Parliamentary Fellowship Program in China have just opened. The program sends 2 Australians annually to Beijing, where they are hosted by Peking University and work with local politicians for a…

Language shift among Tibet’s minority languages

Contemporary China Seminar – University of Melbourne Between Chinese State and Tibetan Nation: Language shift among Tibet’s minority languages and the case of the Manegacha Language of Qinghai Dr Gerald Roche, University of Melbourne 5.30-7.00pm Thursday 11 August, 2016 Evan…