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Forum on Australian Studies (NO.30)

Australia-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Prof. Colin Mackerras (Griffith University)

Time: 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Date: 10 Nov, 2016 (Thursday)

Venue: Room 417, English Building, BFSU

讲座人简介

Professor Emeritus Colin Mackerras AO, FAHA first visited China in 1964, teaching at Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University) for two years, and since then has revisited China over 60 times and taught at BFSU frequently.

He began his association with Griffith University in 1974 as Foundation Professor in Modern Asian Studies. Griffith’s founders decided in the early 1970s that the new University would include a focus on Asian Studies, a decision considered quite radical at that time. He was active in promoting Asian studies and China studies. On retirement in 2004 he was appointed a professor emeritus of the University. He was the inaugural Director and now is the Honorary Director of the Tourism Confucius Institute at Griffith University. He has published and taught widely on China, both in Australia and China itself.

He holds a PhD from the Australian National University. In 2004 he was given an honorary doctorate by the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and in April 2006 he was made a Doctor of the University by Griffith University, Australia. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999 and in the same year was given an Australia-China Council Award for ‘outstanding contributions and achievements by individuals from Australia and China’ in the area of culture in Australia-China relations. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Governor-General of Australia. In June 2007 he was appointed as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. The citation reads: ‘For service to Asian studies and international relations; particularly in the field of Chinese society, culture and language’. In 2012 he was given an award for ‘outstanding contribution and service to the Australia-China relationship’ by Griffith University and Beijing Foreign Studies University in recognition of the 40th anniversary of Australia-China diplomatic relations. He was the winner of “China Friendship Award” in 2014.

His many research areas include Chinese modern history, theatre, ethnic minorities, past and present, Western images of China and Australia-China relations, and he has written widely on all of these. His many authored books include The Rise of the Peking Opera, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972; China’s Minorities: Integration and Modernization in the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1994, China’s Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration Since 1912, Longman Australia, Melbourne, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1995, China’s Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation, Routledge Curzon, 2003; China in Transformation, 1900-1949, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2008; and China in My Eyes, Western Images of the People’s Republic of China, Renmin University Press, Beijing, 2013. In addition he has edited numerous books and written many refereed journal articles and book chapters.

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