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Our people
Meet the team at the China Studies Centre
The Centre provides a platform for interdisciplinary operation across the university supporting research on and about China and Chinese society and cultures.
Professor David S G Goodman
David Goodman is Emeritus Professor in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; Emeritus Professor in the Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, China; and Emeritus Professor in the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology, Sydney. During 2017-21 he was Vice President for Academic Affairs at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, where he had previously established the Department of China Studies. 2012-2016 he was a PRC Ministry of Education Distinguished Overseas Academic at Nanjing University in the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences. 2004-2009 he was DVC International at University of Technology, Sydney, where he had previously established the International Studies Program.
Professor Yingjie Guo
Professor of Chinese Studies
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Yingjie Guo is Professor of Chinese Studies. He received his BA and MA from Shanghai International Studies University, China and PhD from the University of Tasmania, Australia. Before joining the University of Sydney in 2014, he had taught at Shanghai International Studies University, the University of Tasmania, the University of New England, and the University of Technology, Sydney. His research focuses on cultural nationalism, cultural identities, and discourses of class in contemporary China.
Associate Professor Ying Zhang
MBBS, MMedSci, MSust, MEdu, PhD, ISEE Fellow
Associate Professor
Ying Zhang is a senior epidemiologist, a dedicated researcher and educator on climate change and global health. She has led national and international research projects in the field with over 130 publications. Ying's research aims to build community resilience to changing climate and environment, focusing on the most vulnerable populations in the Asia Pacific Region. Ying has been the Co-Director of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change in Australia since 2017, which produces annual reports to track progress on health and climate change in the country until 2030. Ying is the Founder and Co-Chair of the Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration, and Deputy Director of theHeat and Health Research Incubatorat the University of Sydney. Ying is keen on promoting research translation and policy advocacy to address health and climate change issues and is Chair of the Capacity Building Committee of the WHO Civil Society Working Group on Climate Change and Health. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships, such as the Australian Prime Minister Endeavor Fellowship and the Homeward Bound Fellowship, which included a three-week trip to Antarctica in 2019. Ying has demonstrated professional excellence and a significant level of experience in environmental epidemiology, which has been recognised by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) with an ISEE Fellow Award.
Dr Josh Stenberg
PhD (Nanjing)
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies
Josh Stenberg is a senior lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published the monographs Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display (2019) and Liyuanxi: Chinese 'Pear Garden' Theatre (2022), as well as the edited volume Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance (2022). In addition to his research on Chinese theatre and literature, he has translated or edited several volumes of contemporary Chinese literature.
Name |
Position |
| (Chair) Mr Kevin Hobgood-Brown AM | Chair, Foundation for Australian Studies In China |
Mr Dan Tebbutt |
Austrade Sydney |
Mr Robert Kok |
Sydney City Council |
Ms Glenda Korporaal |
Associate Editor (Business) |
Dr. Kate Smith |
Environmental Engineer |
Mr George Su |
CEO & Managing Director Richlink Capital |
| Ms Shirley Gao | Senior Associate BBI Group, Sydney, Australia |
| Ms Helen Zhi Dent | Partner China Business Practice, KPMG |
| Name | Position | Portfolio |
| Professor Alison Betts | Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of the Archaeology and Mythology of the Ancient Near East Discipline of Archaeology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Individual projects |
| Dr Minglu Chen | Senior Lecturer Discipline of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Research presentation and events |
| Professor Hans Hendrischke | Professor of Chinese Business and Management The University of Sydney Business School |
Outreach |
| Dr Josh Stenberg | Senior Lecturer Discipline of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Doctoral Students |
| Professor Anthony Welch | Professor of Education, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Collaborative Projects |
| Jun Huang | Professor, SOAR Fellowship School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Director of the Laboratory for Catalysis Engineering |
Research and Outreach |
| Budiman Minasny | Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling School of Life and Environmental Sciences |
Author |
| Ying Zhang | Associate Professor Sydney School of Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health |
Research and Outreach |
| Name | Affiliation/ Faculty/ School | Research expertise keywords |
| Dr Irene (Shidong) An | FASS|SLC | Computer Assisted Language Learning, Second language Acquisition, Second/Foreign Language Teaching Intercultural Communication |
| Professor Vivienne Bath | Law School | Professor of Chinese | International Business Law; Chinese investment and corporate law; international investment law; China and private international law |
| Professor Alison Betts | FASS| School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry | |
| Dr David Brophy | FASS |Department of History | Qing history, Xinjiang, Uyghur studies, Sino-Russian relations, Silk Road |
| Dr Alexander Burchmore | FASS |Department of Art History | Materiality, Identity, Travel, Trade, Ceramics |
| Associate Professor Mark Byron | FASS | Director of Research Development (Humanities) | |
| Dr Chengqi Cao | FASS | China Studies Centre | Compulsory Education, Welfare Policy, Social Welfare, Policymaking and implementation, Social Citizenship |
| Dr Beatriz Carrillo Garcia | FASS |School of Social and Political Sciences | |
| Dr Minglu Chen | FASS |SSPS |Department of Government and International Relations | domestic politics, women in politics, local governance, private entrepreneurs |
| Dr Shuxia Chen | Curator, China Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney | |
| Professor Jocelyn Chey | FASS |SLC | international relations; humour; Hong Kong; intellectual history; cultural relations |
| Dr Yeow-Tong Chia | FASS|Sydney School of Education and Social Work | |
| Dr Susette Cooke | FASS | SLC | Discipline of Chinese Studies | |
| Dr Anthony Cordingley | FASS |Department of English | Literary modernism, translation, self-translation |
| A/Prof Timothy Dwyer | FASS | Department of Media and Communications | Chinese media platforms, news media policy and regulation |
| Professor David Goodman | FASS |School of Social and Political Sciences |China Studies Centre | Class, local governance, provincial politics, history of CCP |
| Professor Yingjie Guo | FASS |SLC|Discipline of Chinese Studies | nationalism in contemporary China, Chinese cultural identities, Chinese cultural memories, discourses of class in the PRC, class and nation in the PRC |
| A/Prof Rachael Hains-Wesson | Business School | Work-Integrated Learning; teacher scholarship; employability; international education; mixed methods |
| Dr Sabrina Yuan Hao | FASS |China Studies Centre | crime fiction, law and literature, comparative literature, translation and adaptation, post-colonialism and globalization |
| A/Professor Colin Hawes | Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney |China Studies Centre | Chinese law and legal reform, Chinese corporations, corporate culture and ecosystems, Classical Chinese literature and culture |
| Dr Barbara Hendrischke | FASS |China Studies Centre | Chinese intellectual history. Chinese religious history. Early Daoism. |
| Professor Hans Hendrischke | Business School | |
| Professor Carol Hsu | Business School | |
| A/Prof Jeanne Huang | Law School | |
| Dr Eva Huang | Business School | |
| Dr Catherine Ingram | Sydney Conservatorium | |
| Dr Minerva Inwald | UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture, School of Humanities and Languages | |
| Professor Alicia Jenkins | Faculty of Medicine and Health | diabetes, cardiovascular disease, medical education |
| Dr Peter Jia | FASS | Discipline of Chinese Studies | |
| Dr Kaiying Ji | Business School | financial reporting, forecasting, work-integrated learning |
| Dr Lauren Johnston | China Studies Centre | School of Economics and Policy, University of Adelaide | Economy, Population Ageing, China-Global South, China/Africa, Belt and Road Initiative |
| Dr Natalie Kohle | FASS | |
| Dr Chi Kin Law | Faculty of Medicine and Health|NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre | |
| Dr Mabel Lee | FASS | Discipline of Chinese Studies | history, literature, art, performance |
| Dr Yi Li | Business School | Chinese Multinational Enterprise, Institutional Perspective, Digitalization, Strategic Configuration, Top Management Team |
| Dr Wei Li | Business School | |
| Professor Bingqin Li | UNSW |Director of Chinese Social Policy Stream |China Studies Centre | |
| Professor Bing Ling | Law School | |
| Dr Lu Liu | Sydney Conservatorium | Global inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts, Australian-Chinese Music Studies, Cultural Diversity in Music Studies |
| Dr Yvonne Low | FASS | Department of Art History | |
| Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson | FASS | Department of History | |
| Professor Yixu Lu | FASS |SLC | |
| Professor Bonnie McDougall | FASS | The Department of Chinese Studies | |
| Dr Sean Moores | FASS |SLC | |
| Professor Meaghan Morris | FASS | Gender and Cultural Studies | Hong Kong action cinema, Inter-Asia cultural studies |
| Associate Professor Natalie Munro | Faculty of Medicine and Health|Sydney School of Health Sciences | |
| Dr Xi Nan | Business School | |
| Professor Susan Park | FASS |SSPS |GIA | |
| Dr Mark Post | FASS |Discipline of Linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages, minority languages of China, China-India border regions |
| Professor Elspeth Probyn | FASS |Gender and Cultural Studies | oceans; aqua/geopolitics; fishing; food; climatechange |
| Dr Wuna Reilly | FASS | China Studies Centre | |
| A/Professor Jamie Reilly | FASS |School of Social and Political Sciences |Department of Government and International Relations | China's foreign policy; Chinese politics; international relations; development |
| Dr Andres Rodriguez | FASS |Department of History | |
| Dr Yu Shan | FASS|SLC | |
| Dr Joshua Stenberg | FASS |SLC |Discipline of Chinese Studies | theatre, literature, Southeast Asia, translation, Taiwan |
| Dr Simon Tan | Business School | |
| Dr Beibei Tang | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China | |
| Professor Frederick Teiwes | FASS |School of Social and Political Sciences |Department of Government and International Relations | CCP elite politics, Dynamics of change in the Mao eraHua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, and the dismantling of Maoism |
| Dr Matthew Thomas | FASS|Sydney School of Education and Social Work | |
| Professor Luigi Tomba | FASS |China Studies Centre | |
| Professor Ming-Chang Tsai | Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
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| A/Prof Linda Tsung | FASS |Department of Chinese Studies | |
| Dr Qiang Tu | Faculty of Medicine and Health | |
| A/Prof Wei Wang | FASS |Department of Chinese Studies | language and society, translation studies, language education, ethnic studies |
| Professor Anthony Welch | FASS | Sydney School of Education and Social Work | Higher Education. Universities. Internationalisation. World Class. Science and Technology. |
| Associate Professor Anita Wong | Faculty of Medicine & Health | language development and disorders in Chinese children, language therapy for Chinese children; parent education on supporting the development of Chinese as the home language |
| Dr Vycke Wu | Business School | Behavioural Finance, Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure |
| Dr Jinqi Xu | the Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) | |
| Dr Ye Xue | University of Alberta | |
| Dr Gracy Yang | Business School | Corruption, firm bribery, global strategy, emerging market firms, temporal orientation |
| Dr Hongzhi Yang | FASS| Sydney School of Education and Social Work | |
| Dr Zhimin Yang | Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics | |
| Dr Tao Yu | The University of Western Australia (UWA) | |
| A/Professor Jingdong Yuan | FASS |School of Social and Political Sciences |Department of Government and International Relations | Chinese security policy; Indo-Pacific security; nuclear arms control; US Asia policy; China-India relations |
| A/Prof Ying Zhang | Faculty of Medicine and Health | climate change, global health, sustainability, epidemiology, |
| Dr Eagle Zhang | Business School | Financial Reporting in China; Government accounting in China; Chinese accounting history. |
| Dr Huan Zhang | Business School | |
| Dr Lansheng Zhang | FASS |China Studies Centre | art, design, history, museology, visual culture |
| Dr Ling Zhang | Sydney Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine and Health and CPC | cardiovascular disease, prevention, health literacy, digital health, cultural and linguistic diverse |
| A/Prof Xiaohuan Zhao | FASS |Department of Chinese Studies | art and archaeology; ritual and religion; Chinese literature; Chinese theatre history; Chinese folk and temple theatre |
| Associate Professor Yi Zheng | University of New South Wales |China Studies Centre | modern Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese culture and society, historical aestheticism, |
| Dr Jingjing You | Faculty of Medicine and Health | Cell biology, molecular biology, biomanufacturing, and engineering |
Local Governance in the PRC
Research Lead: Minglu Chen, Discipline of Government and International Relations
Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Research lead: Yingjie Guo, Discipline of Chinese Studies, School of Languages and Cultures
Digital Economy
Research Lead : Hans Hendrischke, Business School, International Business Discipline
Education
Research Lead: Wei Li, The University of Sydney Business School
Environmental Sustainability
Research Lead: Susan Park, Dicipline of Government and International Relations
Health Management
Research Lead: Ling Zhang, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health
Australia-China Relations
Research Lead: Jingdong Yuan, Dicipline of Government and International Relations
Social Change
Research Lead: Allison Betts, Dicipline of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
