Chinese on the Goldfields

PUBLIC LECTURE Date: 2pm-4pm, Sunday 22 June 2014 Venue: Museum of Sydney, Cnr Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney An illustrated talk on an important episode in Australia’s history, the riots on the goldfields at Lambing Flat. Learn about the ‘roll-up’…

June Four at Twenty-Five: Three Films

Yellow Earth

FILM The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), at the Australian National University, announces a special film event commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the protest movement at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and the nationwide crackdown from 4 June,…

UTS Australia-China Relations Institute

The University of Technology, Sydney has appointed Australia’s former Foreign Minister, the Hon Bob Carr, to lead the Australia China Relations Institute (ACRI) – a new think tank dedicated to Australia-China relations. Bob Carr commences his role as Director, Australia…

“Asia Literacy” in Practice

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Monash Asia Institute Date: Thursday, 12 June 2014 Venue: H.B39 (at Basement of Building H), Monash University Caulfield Campus The importance of “Asia literacy” has been widely discussed in Australia since the 1990s and was given renewed emphasis…

China: Rebels, Ghosts and Romantics

CHINESE FILMS AT SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL June 4-15, 2014 From official website: China continues to be one of the most compulsively fascinating countries on the planet: it’s not an exaggeration to suggest that China’s future may very well be our…

A Journey Through Digital China

PUBLIC LECTURE Presented by Julien Leyre Hosted by the Chinese Studies Centre, University of Sydney, and Sydney Ideas Date: 6:00pm-7:30pm, 19 May 2014 Venue: Law School Foyer, Level 2, Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney The Chinese…

Made in Taiwan

EXHIBITION 10 May – 31 May 2014 School of Art Gallery, the Australian National University In 2000, a number of senior art professors whose works collectively represented the diverse aspects of Taiwanese visual art, came together to form the “Taiwan…