Applications for 2017 National Library of Australia Fellowships are open until May 2, 2016. https://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/fellowships-and-scholarships/national-library-of-australia-fellowships These Fellowships are open to Australian and international researchers and established and emerging scholars. The Fellowships support researchers to make intensive use of the Library’s…
Asian Library Resources of Australia
Newsletter no. 67 of Asian Library Resources of Australia is now available online. Many articles may be of interest to CSAA members, especially the latest library news. http://www.alra.org.au/newsletter.html Back issues of the newsletter are also available on this site, with…
2016-17 Grant Round of Australia-China Council
The grant round of 2016-17 for the Australia-China Council has officially opened. It will close on April 4 2016. The grant rounds seeks to encourage overseas projects and engagement by individuals and organisations interested in enhancing Australia’s bilateral relationship with…
China’s Last Celestial Dynasty
National Library of Australia Professor Geremie Barmé 6pm-7pm, Thursday 4 February 2016 Conference Room, Level 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Geremie Barmé is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual…
China’s slowing growth and implications for the global economy
Contemporary China Seminar Series, University of Melbourne David Dollar Senior Fellow, China Center, Brookings Institution 5.30-7.00pm Thursday 11 February, 2016 Old Geology South, Theatre 2, University of Melbourne China’s stock market correction and currency devaluations have sent shock waves through…
Chen Qiulin: One Hundred Names
16 January – 27 February 2016 Open Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 181—187 Hay Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia One Hundred Names is the first Australian solo exhibition by Chinese artist Chen Qiulin.…
The Chungking Legation
Foyer, R.G. Casey Building, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, John McEwen Crescent, Barton, Canberra 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday until 20 January 2016 The Chungking Legation: Australia’s diplomatic mission in wartime China exhibition is now open to the…
Enforcing energy and environmental policies in China
China Studies Centre, University of Sydney Yuan Xu 12.30pm – 2.00pm, Wednesday 27 January 2016 Room 5040, Level 5, Business School Abercrombie Building H70, Abercrombie St & Codrington St, Darlington NSW 2006 China is the world’s largest energy producer, consumer…
Exploring the Qing dynasty through National Library collections
National Library of Australia 6pm-7pm, Thursday 21 January 2016 Conference Room, Lvl 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Dr Nathan Woolley, curator of Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644–1911, explores life under the Qing dynasty through the collections of the…
Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911
This exhibition brings together material from the National Library of Australia and the National Library of China to provide a window into the diversity of life under the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last imperial dynasty. The exhibition will be the…