China's cultural crackdown, including the cancellation of celebrities and rectification of fan groups, have attracted much media attention. While it is easy to attribute this phenomenon to state-driven censorship, the story, as
@teddyfoxfluff
writes, is not always so simple.
While it is easy to attribute the cancellation of celebrities to the Party-state,
@teddyfoxfluff
shows how the industry itself is equally capable of erasing an artist.
How did Maoism go global?
Matthew Galway explores the link between the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to globalize Maoism and the dialectical engagement of exported Maoism by intellectuals who became Maoists in Cambodia. Join the discussion on 19 May!
A fantastic opportunity to connect and engage with leading Chinese Studies experts at the ANU and to share your research!
For more details and to apply, please visit:
Last week, we hosted an engaging book talk with
@limlouisa
on her new book Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong! Signed copies of Indelible City are still available at ANU Harry Hartog! 📖
In the 82nd George E. Morrison Lecture,
@ANUBellSchool
's Professor Evelyn Goh explores how regional actors think about China holistically, within national contexts as well as wider systemic considerations. This is an in-person event, please register 👇
CIW Visiting Fellow
@JosephTorigian
will be delivering a series of seminar on Sino-Russian relations, elite politics in China, Xi Jinping's leadership and political successions in the Soviet Union and China.
Join us online or in-person! Register 👇
Professor Cheng-Chwee Kuik will deliver the 2024 ANU China in the World Forum keynote address, exploring the nuanced differences and shifts in middle-state alignment choices.
Register:
Is the
#BRI
a well-thought-out plan by the Chinese leadership to gain geopolitical influence OR shaped by contingent factors out of Beijing’s control?
@GeorgeMasonU
's
@StellaHongZhang
argues neither accurately reflects the BRI policymaking process.
This year’s ANU CIW Forum brings together Jean Oi,
@berthofmanecon
,
@YanzhongHuang
and
@CourtneyFung
to examine the profound and lasting consequences of COVID-19 for China’s economy, society and international relations.
Register:
The 2024 ANU
#Taiwan
Update explores President Lai’s administration and implications on international affairs,
#MeToo
Movement, social welfare for Indigenous Elders, migrant workers, and telling Taiwan’s story from western perspectives.
REGISTER:
CALL FOR PAPERS: Breaking boundaries- Chinese companies abroad
Chinese companies operating beyond China's borders constitute a geopolitical force but are under-researched. This conference will extend knowledge on this key political & strategic topic.
In this lecture,
@CSISFreeman
Jude Blanchette will discuss Xi Jinping’s policy agenda on China’s economic and financial system and its implications for the United States and Australia.
Register:
Welcoming the Year of the Ox and a happy Lunar New Year! 🐂🎉
-- The purple vapour arising from the east brings blessings
The green ox heading towards the west welcomes the return of Spring --
The 2024 ANU China in the World Forum examines the consequences of US-China rivalry for middle powers and smaller states across the Pacific Rim and interrogates strategic responses and agencies from the state and non-state actors in the region.
Register:
At the 2023 ANU Taiwan Update, we are delighted to have
@newbloommag
's
@brianhioe
to speak on how
#Taiwan
is perceived in international media and how the Taiwanese view cross-strait relations.
More info & rego:
Drawing connections from the Sunflower Movement (ten years ago) to the recent Bluebird Movement,
@brianhioe
reflects on how social movement history is documented and passed down in
#Taiwan
, with a closer look at film and TV adaptations.
REGISTER:
.
@limlouisa
and
@GraemeKSmith
explain the remarkable similarities in Beijing's responses — the rhetorics, tactics, and solutions — to the
#Tiananmen
Square crackdown in 1989 and the Hong Kong protests in 2019.
The China Story Yearbook 2023: China's New Era is out! 🤩
A huge shout-out to our editors and contributors: Annie Ren, Ben Hillman, Willy Lam, Jiao Wang, Jean Oi, Rogier Creemers,
@DebbyChan_HK
,
@EmmersDorien
, Scott Rozelle, Tan Zhao, Kai Yang, Qian Huang, Peishan Yann, (1/2)
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, has declared his rule to be a ‘New Era’ and promises it will be the one in which China is restored to its place as one of the world’s great and powerful nations.
Learn more
@edwardsychan
“Chinese students in Australia have a great opportunity to feel the spirit of democracy... Yet if every time they express their political view, Australian society accuses them of being a threat to democracy, it only serves to alienate them.” writes
@anu_china
’s
@Yun_aus
Pro-China nationalists are increasingly using intimidation to silence critics in Australia.
@yun_aus
@china_neican
recommends ways this can be countered without stifling free speech.
@ChinaMattersAUS
Tonight we are hosting
@bobjcarr
of
@acri_uts
for the booked-out CIW Annual Lecture. His topic is 'Australia-China relations at the crossroads?'
We will live tweet proceedings from 6:30pm and a video recording will be online tomorrow afternoon.
#auschina
As the Pacific region has become a new focus of the US-China geostrategic competition, the panel will discuss the vulnerabilities, opportunities, resilience of the Pacific Island states, and their perceptions of the great powers.
To understand the wolf warriors, we must understand the institutional constraints binding the Chinese diplomats. Join
@PeterMartin_PCM
and
@yun_aus
for a discussion on
#China
's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy.
👉
In this CIW Annual Lecture, Professor Jane Golley will discuss factors that are likely to constrain China’s economic growth as well as those likely to sustain it.
RSVP 👉
This panel explores China and Japan’s respective approaches to the regional order. It pays special attention to the two countries’ engagement with the emerging economies in the region and discusses implications for the future of the regional order.
"The
#Kuomintang
state, and the mainland migrant population that fled to Taiwan after 1949, occupy an ambiguous position in the historiography on modern
#Taiwan
" —
@UCBHistory
's
@Leegoodwinsen
.
This panel explores juancun in power relations & pop cultures.
CIW is delighted to host
@limlouisa
's book talk on her latest publication, Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, exploring a new attempt to craft a history for
#HongKong
🇭🇰centring local voices.
Details and registration 👉
"The most challenging thing for a book like this is to do justice to both continuities and ruptures. She doesn’t fall into the trap of an ‘unchanging China’ idea." says
@jwassers
of Linda Jaivin's The Shortest History of China. via
@five_books
📖
CIW is hosting a special screening of Revolution of Our Times (
@RoOT_film
) at the ANU, featuring a Q&A with
@tedhuichifung
and Dr Joyce Nip on 27 August!
How and why did
#Australia
-
#China
relations fall apart, and where is this leading? Is Australia’s choice a simple one of confrontation or capitulation? Or are there better ways forward?
@Dave_Brophy
@yun_aus
@IainDHenry
Register:
What is Maoism and how did it become such a global phenomenon? What form did Maoism take outside China?
Join this fascinating discussion with Matthew Galway, Ruth Barraclough,
@UniMelb
's
@audql
(Delia Lin) and
@GregoryVRaymond
.
RSVP:
In this lecture, Prof. Rana Mitter will discuss the thinking of Chinese Government ministers, idealistic revolutionaries, and other groups who shaped postwar China – and suggests that those debates have come back to haunt their 21st-century successors.
👉
The China Story Yearbook: Crisis surveys the multiple crises of the year of the Metal Rat. It also explores the responses to crisis of Daoists, Buddhists, and humourists — because when all else fails, there’s always philosophy, prayer, and laughter.
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
We wish you all a happy Lunar New Year!
瑞犬迎春・旺福盈門!
The image on the card is Ten Fine Hounds (‘Tawny-Yellow Leopard’) by Lang Shining 郎世寧 (Giuseppe Castiglione), 1688–1766.
Warm wishes,
Jane Golley
A/g Director
This seminar explores Oceanian Indigenous diplomacy through the contemporary tattooing practices in
#Samoa
and Indigenous Paiwan communities in
#Taiwan
.
Seminar & zoom details:
What was “revolutionary” about the anti-extradition movement? Turning its aspirational and stirring slogan into an empirical question, this keynote by Professor Ching Kwan Lee addresses this question and Hong Kong's social movements.
👉Register now:
Congratulations to
@edwardsychan
on his fellowship appointment with
@acri_uts
and
@ChinaMattersAUS
! His project explores Australia-China relations and maritime security in the South Pacific.
UTS:ACRI and
@ChinaMattersAUS
are pleased to announce the appointment of
@edwardsychan
as the inaugural China Matters-UTS:ACRI Fellow. See here for more on Dr Chan’s project and the Fellowship:
'
@yaotaili
explores key drivers & considerations for HongKongers who moved to countries other than the UK or Canada. An agenda for studying the motivations, collaborations, resistance & integration of HK migrants in different countries will be discussed.
Exhibition of 'Newly discovered photographs of Beijing, 1900–1902' will be opened by Emeritus Professor Richard Rigby next Friday 13 July Exhibition will be on 13 July -30 August 2018
This seminar looks at the discursive, dramaturgical, musical, visual interventions that accompanied street protests in HK.
@mingsho_ho
will discuss how anonymous participants collectively present a powerful vision of an awakened community.
Register:
This week CIW welcomed 17 UG students from across 🇦🇺 to the Honours in China Studies Advance Preparation Program. They took part in seminars from leading experts on important topics concerning China, developed research questions & discussed career opps.
#australiachinafoundation
The 84th George E. Morrison Lecture in Ethnology will be delivered by Professor Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
@HebrewU
on Thu 9 Nov 5:30–7pm AEDT.
👉Register now
The China Story Yearbook: Crisis is launched! 🎉
We thank all the contributors (listed below) who shared their insights on the multiple crises unfolded in 2020 and continue to impact the world today. Download your free copy or purchase one👇
There’s no doubt 2020 was a troubled year, the sort that is characterised by the poetic expression duoshi zhi qiu— literally ‘an eventful autumn’ — which appears on the cover of the 2020 China Story Yearbook. We hope that 2021 looks more like spring.
Join Yao-Tai Li (
@UNSW
), Louisa Lim (
@UniMelb
), and Joseph Yu-shek Cheng (
@ISDP_Sweden
) in discussion on Silencing Freedom: From Protests to Suppression in Hong Kong, with Kevin Carrico (
@kevincarrico
) moderating.
👉Don't forget to register:
Join us for the inaugural 2022 ANU Taiwan Update, hosting four keynote addresses by experts on Taiwan's environment, social change, the semiconductor industry and Taiwan's internal politics on the eve of its local elections.
Register below 👇
2024 ANU CIW Forum Keynote by Prof Cheng-Chwee Kuik (
@cckuik
) is now online:
In response to US-China rivalry, Prof Kuik explains the nuanced differences in middle-state alignment choices using 3 key points—blind spots😎, bright spots✨& blinking spots👀!
How does the Chinese Party-State use digital technology to achieve its development goals, and how does it adapt itself in the process?
Join Assistant Professor Rogier Creemers (
@China_Digital
) from
@UniLeiden
@AsiaLeiden
in discussion.
👉Register now:
CIW IS HIRING! 📣
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in China's Political Economy
Level B/C, Full Time, Fixed-Term (5 Years)
Application deadline: 29 July 2022
Find out more & apply now:
The CIW Visiting Fellowship Program is for early and mid-career researchers of all academic disciplines who are based in Australian and overseas academic institutions to conduct and share research that promotes the study of the Chinese world.
Apply now👉
📢📢FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
2024 ANU China in the World Forum:
Navigating US-China Rivalry: Responses from the Pacific Rim
Abstracts Due: Sunday 24 March 2024
More info:
That's a wrap for the 2023 ANU Taiwan Update! A huge thank you to our speakers
@brianhioe
, Kai-Ping Huang, Harry Genn & Chun-Yi Lee. It was gratifying to see an engaging crowd at every session! Don't forget to follow
@newbloommag
&
@UoNARI_Taiwan
for comprehensive insights on🇹🇼.
SCHOLARSHIPS |
The Australian Centre on China in the World PhD Scholarships will enable two outstanding to pursue innovative research on China and/or the Chinese-speaking world at ANU.
This seminar by Koji Hirata
@hirako13
explores the CCP's efforts to politically mobilise the workforce of Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang), then China's largest steel enterprise, during the first decade of their rule of Manchuria (Northeast China).
A fascinating talk by
@_emilyrwilliams
on the collectors of ‘red relics’—objects relating to the CCP, PLA and the history of Chinese socialism. These collectors see themselves as transmitters of history, culture & ‘positive energy’ to the next generation.
@UNSW
@UniMelb
@ISDP_Sweden
@kevincarrico
Due to popular demand, the Open Forum for our event on Hong Kong: Interrupted Revolutionary Social Movements will now by ONLINE as well as in-person.
👉Register now:
Join
@SamsonYuen852
(
@hkbaptistu
) and Edmund W. Cheng (City University of Hong Kong) in discussion on the research impact of China studies within the field and beyond, for the ANU China Seminar Series.
👉Register now:
CIW values the diverse cultures of the Chinese-speaking world, and we are excited to partner w/
@CulturalTaiwan
to explore the significance of visual culture in 1970-80s Taiwan, a pivotal period in Taiwan's political transformation.
media release(chinese):
In a time of a newly assertive China and corresponding rising Sinophobia, Chineseness has become an increasingly polarising identity marker, both locally and globally.
Hear more from
@westernsydneyu
's Professor Ien Ang on this topic, 15 April.
Register👇
"...the framing of
#Taiwan
as troublemaker is problematic as though 🇹🇼 is willing to let the world burn for independence, but in reality everything is interlinked so there's no way for 🇹🇼 to maintain its democratic freedoms if there's conflict"
@brianhioe
Wayfaring is open! 歡迎光臨
Curated mostly from the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Collection, and showing for the first time in
#Australia
, Wayfaring explores the journeys of self and society at the end of martial law in
#Taiwan
through photography.📸
Call for Papers — Remembering
#Taiwan
's Martial Law
Martial Law lies at the heart of narratives shaping Taiwanese identities. This Conference examines the diversity of voices forming modern Taiwan.
Keynote speakers: Li Ang 李昂 and Mark Harrison
@mhar4
Watch the recording for The 83rd George E. Morrison Lecture in Ethnology.
Prof. Mitter discusses the thinking of Chinese Government ministers, idealistic revolutionaries & other groups who shaped postwar China.
👉
We are excited that
@KennedyCSIS
will be delivering the 2024 CIW Annual Lecture! He will be presenting an alternative framework that better manages economic relations with China while balancing one's national security interests.
#australiachinafoundation
Local gov't debt skyrocketed towards the end of China’s zero COVID polices and has continued to rise unabated, troubling Beijing and rattling int'l financial markets. Prof. Jean Oi will discuss how state policies triggered high level of local gov't debt.
"In China,... nationalist consumers, encouraged by state media, seek to punish businesses or individuals deemed to be contradicting the authoritarian state’s political values or harming its preferred international image." writes
@DebbyChan_HK
"We in Australia tend to forget that under the so-called "liberal" order, the United States and its allies & partners supported the overthrow of democratically elected governments in countries such as Iran and Guatemala" writes
@yun_aus
. via
@canberratimes
How does our current crisis with
#China
reflect deeper problems in
#Australia
’s engagement with Asia & Asian Australians?
Join us in hearing from
@UNSWArts
' Professor Louise Edwards (
@Louise7Edwards7
) on this important topic!
Register👇
This seminar by
@edwardsychan
explores how China builds its comprehensive maritime power with emphasis on economic, legal and technological dimensions of sea power. The Chinese narrative of the role of navy in its maritime strategy will also be discussed.
Issue No.42 of East Asian History is now online, with articles on indigenous Taiwan in the Qing, officialdom in 18th century Korea, the Yongle Encyclopedia 永樂大典, and reprints of Igor de Rachewiltz’s Mongolia research
#twitterstorians
#openaccess
"The use of deft diplomacy & inducements to generate voting blocs is unsurprising. But China also seeks to change the system, diluting the liberal elements that threaten the China model..." write
@NSC_ANU
's
@natashaskassam
& CIW Member
@politicsANU
's
@limdarrenj
.
It is the year 2049.
China is celebrating having reached its second centenary goal.
Here's what the world might look like according to
@ANUmedia
's Natasha Kassam + Darren Lim:
CIW VISITING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (August-December 2024) — Applications Open!
We welcome applications from early to mid-career academics based in Australia and abroad.
More details:
A very happy lunar new year to our friends near and far!
“Dragons rise over Black Mountain, welcoming a fresh prosperity
Flowers bloom in the hamlet of Canberra, heralding the new year”
"The strategy of using only Mandarin Chinese as the language of instruction in
#Tibetan
schools makes perfect sense. Without the Tibetan language, the memories of 1958 are harder to pass on to the next generation." writes
@GraemeKSmith
.
, via
@LowyInstitute
Fancy five days in Florence with some of the sharpest minds on labour and civil society in China?
The
@Chinoiresie
crew are running the Made in China Summer School in July, all the details are here
Congratulations to
@yun_aus
, Senior Research Officer at CIW, for making it to the list of ‘Young Women to Watch in International Affairs’!
Yun is recognised for her contribution to improving China literacy and advancing the understanding and discussion of geoeconomics.
A pleasure to talk with
@BrendanKTaylor
, Susan and Alexander on Australia’s responses to US-PRC competition for
@NSC_ANU
@ourANU
. Part of an outstanding
@anu_china
conference discussing middle power hedging strategies. BLUF: many countries have agency in great power rivalry.
CIW Visiting Fellow
@HumboldtUni
's Professor Sarah Eaton will be speaking on the politics of institutional defence and China’s emergence as a central player.
⏰4pm, 29 February
📍CIW Seminar Room
➡️
Join our next ANU China Seminar Series with
@BonnieGlaser
, discussing Xi’s vision for the international order after the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
👉Register now:
📖A Dream of Perpetual Rule, Yearbook: China Dreams
-Disfiguring May Fourth-
"Xi effectively reduced May Fourth to a mere rhetorical device for exalting CCP rule under his stewardship... he is telling citizens to dream as patriots," writes Gloria Davies.