Ben Hillman conducts research on political change in Asia, democratisation, ethnic conflict, post-conflict reconstruction and comparative local governance. He is based at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, works as an advisor to the United Nations on issues of governance and institution-building and is Founding Chair of the Eastern Tibet Training Institute, … more
David Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Middlebury College, Vermont, and edits South China Sea. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University.—The Editors __________ As the maritime commons of Asia’s rapidly-growing, export-oriented countries, the South China Sea is traversed by some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. In … more
On 14 January 2013, the People’s Daily published a front page editorial, ‘A Beautiful China Begins with Healthy Breathing’ 美丽中国，从健康呼吸开始. The editorial highlighted the nation’s serious pollution problems and the urgent need for effective remedies. The same day, news media outlets across the country carried articles openly deploring the environmental consequences of ill-considered economic development. … more
Zhua ji means to grab and tie. It refers to a young girl’s hairdo, two tufts sprouting up from the head. This is an image repeated in paper cuts and folk art. It connotes something spontaneous, alive, informal. The daughter of a Beijing native in a house infused with Chinese flavor, I had this hairdo … more
The following essay is an edited excerpt from Gloria Davies’ book Lu Xun’s Revolution, published by Harvard University Press in March 2013. It is a study of the writing of a man who is regarded as the colossus of twentieth-century Chinese letters. Mao Zedong called him ‘the sage of modern China’, although much of what Lu … more
This contribution by Lewis Mayo of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, continues The China Story Journal discussion of the Australian government’s Australia in the Asian Century, released on 28 October 2012. See also: David Brophy, ‘Australia’s Asia‘, 31 October 2012; Stephen FitzGerald, ‘Australia and China at Forty: Stretch of the Imagination‘, 12 November 2012; The Editors, ‘Australia’s Asian … more
Marc Lanteigne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. He works on the rise of China as a strategic and economic power as well as its evolving interactions and engagements with international organisations and regimes and is the author of China and International Institutions: Alternate Paths to … more
Nancy Berliner is the Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. She additionally serves as an advisor to the World Monuments Fund’s Qianlong Garden conservation project at the Forbidden City in Beijing. She was previously curator of Chinese Art at the Peabody Essex Museum where she spearheaded … more
This website is a creation of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), which was established at The Australian National University in 2010. The Centre’s permanent home will be a new building designed by the Beijing-based architect Gerald Szeto 司徒佐 of Mo Atelier Szeto Architects working with the Canberra firm Munns Sly Moore. Construction is … more
In A Stretch of the Imagination, an oration written for the Australian Centre on China in the World published recently in book form, a former ambassador to China Dr Stephen FitzGerald speaks of how the debate about Australia’s engagement with Asia that started in the 1960s, one that was frequently lead by nationally prominent figures, was ‘put … more
