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Chinese Studies in Australian Universities: A Problem of Balance

1st April 2020 / AnneMcLaren / 2020 Reviewing Asian Studies, Asian studies, China

The global field of Chinese Studies has expanded greatly in line with the rise of China to become the world’s second largest economy. However, this trend is less apparent in Australia, where the domestic enrolment in Chinese Studies and postgraduate level training has been relatively constrained. Where Chinese programs are expanding in enrolment, this is […]

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20 Years of Korean Studies in Australia

23rd March 2020 / Ruth Barraclough / 2020 Reviewing Asian Studies, Asian studies, Korea, South Asia Studies

The story of Korean Studies in Australia over the last twenty years is a pleasing one, albeit with some highs and lows. In the 1990s Korean language programs were running in eight universities across Australia, including Swinburne, Griffith and Curtin Universities. Today there are fewer combined Korean language and Studies programs, but those that exist

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Evolution of Mainland Southeast Asian Studies Over the Last 20 Years

16th March 2020 / Patrick Jory / 2020 Reviewing Asian Studies, Asian studies, Southeast Asia

Research and teaching on mainland Southeast Asian countries in Australia over the last 20 years have been shaped by the same forces affecting other areas of university life during this period: increased managerialism, difficult budgetary circumstances, the precariousness of academic employment, the casualisation of teaching, constraints on research funding, a persistent Eurocentrism in some disciplines,

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Asian politics in Australian universities

28th February 2020 / Michael Barr / 2020 Reviewing Asian Studies, Asian studies

In a world in which political developments in Asia are of central importance to Australia’s national interest, it is a sad truth that the teaching of Asian politics in Australian universities has suffered badly over the last decade or so. This is particularly the case in political science departments[1] and in Asian language departments, including

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Reviewing the state of Asian Studies in Australia

27th February 2020 / Edward Aspinall / 2020 Reviewing Asian Studies, Asian studies

What is the state of teaching and research on Asia-related topics at Australian universities? Do students have more or less opportunity to learn about Asia than in the past? Is there much variation in Asia content across disciplines? Which Asian languages are in decline at our universities and which are on the rise? What are

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Emeritus Professor Merle Calvin Ricklefs 1943-2019

25th February 2020 / Greg Fealy / Asian languages, Asian studies, Indonesia

Obituary: Merle Ricklefs Merle Ricklefs, who passed away in Melbourne on 29 December 2019, was the pre-eminent scholar of Javanese Islam of his generation and, more broadly, one of the leading historians of Indonesia. He also played a significant leadership role in Asian Studies in Australia as well as the development of Aboriginal tertiary education

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Chinese Studies in Australian Universities: A Problem of Balance

20 Years of Korean Studies in Australia

Evolution of Mainland Southeast Asian Studies Over the Last 20 Years

Asian politics in Australian universities

Reviewing the state of Asian Studies in Australia

Emeritus Professor Merle Calvin Ricklefs 1943-2019

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