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