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Call for Applications: CSAA Travel Bursaries

2023 CSAA Travel Bursaries Due on Monday. 31 July, 2023 In the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, we pride ourselves on promoting emerging scholars in Chinese Studies as a key part of our missions as a scholarly association. To this…

CSAA 18th Biennial Conference

Report on CSAA Conference December 2023 The 18th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia was held at the University of Sydney 7-9 December 2023. The conference was attended by 431 participants, who attended 77 panels of presentations;…

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…