2016 Contemporary China Seminar Series

The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies Seminar Series during the 2016 academic year showcased a variety of interesting research on contemporary China.

We invited speakers from around Australia who presented their research in an hour long seminar with additional time allowed for questions.

2016 speakers

Thursday 11 February David Dollar, China Center, Brookings Institution; China's slowing growth and implications for the global economy

Semester 1

Thursday 10 March
Dr Qin Xiao, Chair, Boyuan Foundation
The Internationalization of the RMB and its implications for China and the world

Thursday 24 March
Professor Lisa Cameron, Monash University
Stealing my way to your heart: China's one child policy, Marriage Markets and Crime

Thursday 7 April
Dr Warren Sun, Monash University
Rural reform in early post-Mao 1976-1981

Thursday 21 April
Professor Anita Chan, Australian National University
Comparing regular and agency workers' working conditions, attitudes and resistance: a case study of China auto joint ventures

Thursday 5 May
Dr Brooke Wilmsen, La Trobe University
After the Deluge: The longer-term impacts of the Three Gorges Dam

Thursday 19 May
Professor Sarah Biddulph, the University of Melbourne
Reform of administrative detention powers and the problem of minor crime

Semester 2

Thursday 11 August
Dr Gerald Roche, the 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

Thursday 18 August
Professor Yao Yang, Peking University
Half sky over China: Women's political participation and sex imbalances in the Mao era

Thursday 1 September
Professor Linda Tsung, the University of Sydney
Building a Chinese dream: Language, power and hierarchy

Thursday 8 September
Professor Anne-Marie Brady, the Uniersity of Canterbury
China as a Polar great power

Thursday 15 September
Professor Shang Xiaoyuan, the University of New South Wales
One country, two welfare regimes: transition to adulthood of grown-up young people cared for by the state in China

Thursday 6 October
Professor Allan Fels, the University of Melbourne
China: From antimonopoly law to organisation bureau, China Communist Party

Thursday 20 October
Professor Audrey Yue, the University of Melbourne
Sinophone as method: Australia's screen co-productions with China and the Chinese diaspora

Enquiries to china-centre@unimelb.edu.au