The Australian National University
Panel Discussion and Book Launch
Canberra launch — China’s rise: prosperity, power and pushback
Presenter(s): Frances Adamson, Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Ben Hillman, Andy Kennedy, Zhang Jian, and Beyongo Mukete Dynamic
Venue: T2, Kambri Cultural Precinct (153), ANU, Canberra, ACT 2601
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 5:45pm–7:15pm
This panel discussion and launch event will cover a broad set of issues, focussing on China’s power in Africa, China’s soft power, recent reforms in the PLA, China’s rise as a global ‘techno-power’, the rapid expansion of state-owned enterprises and the challenges facing China’s non-state sector, and ‘Girl Power’ (exploring feminism and gender inequality in China today, and its economic implications).
Panel Discussion and Book Launch
Sydney Launch — China’s Power: Hard, Soft and Sharp
Presenter(s): Geoff Raby, Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, David Brophy, and James Reilly
Venue: PwC Sydney, L17 One International Towers, Watermans Quay, Barangaroo, NSW 2000
Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 6:00pm–7:30pm
Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin, two of the book’s co-editors, will be joined by two of the book’s contributing authors, David Brophy and James Reilly, to discuss ‘Girl Power’, soft culture, the debate surrounding Chinese influence in Australia, China’s economic statecraft in North Korea and more.
ANU China Seminar Series
Mobilizing Chinese cultural workers in the service of Japanese occupation, 1939–1945
Presenter(s): Jeremy E. Taylor
Venue: Seminar Room A, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU, Canberra, ACT 2601
Thursday, 18 April 2019, 4:00pm–5:30pm
In this paper, Jeremy Taylor will examine the ways in which the “collaborationist” Re-organised National Government (RNG) of Wang Jingwei — which administered parts of south and east China from March 1940 through until the end of the war — sought to achieve some degree of autonomy in terms of its propaganda activities. I will examine such questions by looking at visual and performative propaganda manufactured in the name of the RNG.
Panel Discussion and Book Launch
Melbourne Launch — China’s rise: prosperity, power and pushback
Presenter(s): Gareth Evans, Jane Golley, Ben Hillman, Beyongo Mukete Dynamic, Gloria Davies
Venue: King and Wood Mallesons, Level 50, Bourke Place, 600 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 3:30pm–5:00pm
This panel discussion will cover a broad set of issues, focusing on China’s power in Africa, the Communist Party’s language of power, the rapid expansion of state-owned enterprises and the challenges facing China’s non-state sector, and ‘Girl Power’ (exploring feminism and gender inequality in China today, and its economic implications).
ANU China Seminar Series
Beyond the Great Wall: China Secures for Buffers
Presenter(s): Yu-Hua Chen
Venue: Seminar Room A, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU, Canberra, ACT 2601
Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 4:00pm–5:30pm
Annexing Taiwan, maintaining the existence of North Korea, and neutralizing Mongolia are policy goals China has been pursuing for decades, although the power distribution of Northeast Asia has changed many times in the past sixty years. How to explain this puzzling behavioural consistency of China? This talk will provide a geopolitical answer to this question.