How Australia is Studied in China

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-57723-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary China Series

China has arguably the largest community of Australian studies in the world. However, not much is known about this phenomenon, including its emergence, rationale, interests, influences, and the implications for strategic Australia-China engagement in a region of increasing challenge and uncertainty. This volume unpacks how Australia is taught, learnt, researched, communicated, and promoted in the Asian giant as well as its largest trade partner. In doing so, it penetrates the representation and essence of this phenomenon to seek both the ‘Australianness’ and the ‘Chineseness’ in it.

This volume collects contributions from a group of leading and emerging Chinese and Australian scholars—who are members and insiders of this community—to jointly debate on this intellectual entity and its significant influences and implications. Produced at a critical moment of commemorating half a century of China-Australia diplomatic relations and four decades of formalised Australian studies in China, this volume provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and insightful examination of this Australia-China engagement.

It will be of interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and general readers in areas of Australian studies, Chinese studies, Asia-Pacific studies, China-Australia relations, and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hu, Diane

Hu, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Kevin Hobgood-Brown

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Australian studies with Chinese characteristics

Richard Hu

Part I Australian Studies in Greater China

Chapter 2. Australian studies in mainland China: A disciplinary analysis

Diane Hu and Ying Li

Chapter 3. Australian studies in Taiwan: A personal account

To-hai Liou

Part II Ambassadors, Agencies, and Channels

Chapter 4. The ripples that continue to spread out: The Gang of Nine and their influences on Chinese foreign studies

Guanglin Wang

Chapter 5. ‘The Council’s flagship program’: The Australian Studies in China Program of the Australia-China Council and the Foundation for Australian Studies in China

David Carter

Chapter 6. Building networks for deepening engagement: The Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration

Andrew Podger

Part III Education, Translation, and Disciplinary Development

Chapter 7. Teaching English and Australian studies in China: From the Maoist to the Xi’ist era

Colin Mackerras

Chapter 8. Localising an Australian studies course: The teaching of Australian children’s literature in Inner Mongolia

Wuyungaowa

Chapter 9. Translating Australian literature into Chinese for forty years

Li Yao and Meili Yi (translator)

Chapter 10. The rise of area and country studies and its implications for Australian studies in China

Chengyi Wu and Chenyu Ding

Part IV Chinese Studies with Australian Characteristics

Chapter 11. Promoting China understanding in Australia: The role of the Australia-China Council, 1979–1984

Jocelyn Chey

Chapter 12. Chinese studies in Australia: An Antipodean school of education and research

Jocelyn Chey and Shirley Chan

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Hu is a professor at the University of Canberra. He is the author of Reinventing the Chinese City (Columbia University Press, 2023) and the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities (Routledge, 2023), among other books.

Diane Hu is an assistant professor and the deputy director of the Australian Studies Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University, as well as the deputy general secretary of the Chinese Association for Australian Studies. She is also a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne.