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The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies was established at the Asia Institute in the Faculty of Arts in 2013, with a mission to facilitate high-quality China-related research, teaching and engagement at the University of Melbourne. The Centre strives for excellence in research and research training that furthers our understanding of China’s ongoing transformation and its implications within and beyond China. In supporting the University’s global engagement strategy, the Centre serves as a focal point for active collaboration with leading Chinese institutions, conducting interdisciplinary research and facilitating transnational education programs across academic divisions. At the launch of the Centre’s Strategic Plan 2020-2024, three priority research themes were identified: - Global China - Civil Society and Social Change - Agriculture, Water and Climate Change

Researchers

Researchers in the research group. Showing 12 of 19.

A/Prof Jennifer Day

Prof Jia Gao

Prof Andrew Godwin

Prof Sun Sheng Han

A/Prof Ester Leung

A/Prof Delia Lin

Prof Yongxian Luo

Prof Fran Martin

DR Lewis Mayo

Prof Claire Roberts

A/Prof Sarah Rogers

A/Prof Craig Smith

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 72 for the research group.

Strengthening Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Standards and Practices for a Just Transition

2025 - 2026

Active

The Nexus of Public and Elite Opinions: Implications for Policies and Institutions

2022 - 2026

Active

For the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies to Conduct Research and Create Networks to Empower the Global South's Global Governance Capacity and Make China’s International Development Cooperation More Accountable.

2024 - 2026

Active

Ideology in Action: Educating Chinese Children in Law and Morality for the New Era

2021 - 2024

Completed

For the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies to Conduct Collaborative Research on Local Engagement Within Indonesia for Chinese Investment Projects and to Organise a Network of Scholars for Sharing China Knowledge in the Southeast Asia and Pacific

2021 - 2024

Completed

The Technopolitics of China's South - North Water Transfer Project

This project aims to investigate the motives, processes, and socio-political and hydrological consequences of the South-North Water Transfer..

2017 - 2023

Completed

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 1571 for the research group.

Strategic insights into China’s overseas acquisitions: state-owned mineral ventures in Australia

Z Xu, M Wang, TT Werner

Journal article | 2026 | Extractive Industries and Society

Open access

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are increasingly active in overseas mergers and acquisitions in the mining sector, driven b..

Regional disparities in China's construction boom and bust: capital switching from 2002 to 2022

Xiao Ma, Sun Sheng Han

Book Chapter | 2026

Fighting against Sinophobia using ballot papers: An analysis of the votes of Chinese Australians in the 2022 federal election

Jia Gao

Journal article | 2026 | Global Chinese Review

The 2022 Australian federal election was held on 21 May 2022, and the right-leaning Liberal-National coalition government suffered..

How NGOs reshape urban green space justice in Beijing

Luquan Liang, Sun Sheng Han, Jennifer Day

Journal article | 2026 | Nature Cities

Realizing green justice in cities requires both the equitable distribution of urban green spaces (UGSs) across different social gr..

Assessment of the compound impact of sea level rise, land subsidence and storm surge under climate change in ShangHai

B Liang, G Shi, Y Wu, Y Zhu, M Wang, Z Sun

Journal article | 2026 | Plos One

Open access

Global climate change-induced sea level rise has emerged as a critical environmental challenge for coastal cities in the 21st cent..

Monroe Doctrine Redux: New Americanism and the Echoes of Empire in China and Japan

Craig A Smith

Journal article | 2026 | Made in China Journal

Flooding and injustice in Ningbo, China

Z Liu, S Rogers

Journal article | 2026 | Geographical Research

Open access

Flooding induced by sea level rise, intense rainfall events, land subsidence, and storm surges adversely impacts coastal cities wo..

China’s digitalised water governance and authoritarian environmentalism

RY Chen, RY Wang, M Wang

Journal article | 2026 | Geographical Research

In recent years, extensive technology adoption has become a notable trend in China’s environmental governance. Although various an..

Patriotic Nationalism as Commodity

Delia Lin

Book Chapter | 2026

In stark contrast to the Mao era, today’s party propaganda has adapted to consumer culture. This chapter argues that ideology and ..

The Braking Mechanism in Mao-Era Politics: Actions by Military Leaders After 1958

Jia Gao

Book | 2026

This book offers a compelling re-examination of Mao Zedong’s political authority, giving readers a clear understanding and full pi..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 25 for the research group.

The Taiwanese pop megastar spreading the hidden Chinese history of Australia’s gold rush to a global audience

Sophie Loy-Wilson, Craig A. Smith

Taiwanese pop music superstar Jay Chou, known in Mandarin as Zhou Jielun (周杰倫), has put country Victoria’s Sovereign Hill on the map. Cho..

April 28, 2026

conversation Article

Growing a feeling of home in a new city

Sebastian Salay, Jennifer Day, Vivian Obed, Prescila Meto

Vanuatu’s capital city, Port Vila, is growing rapidly as people migrate from one of the 83 islands that comprise the archipelago nation. Th..

October 15, 2024

pursuit Article

Australia and China should cooperate for the security of Pacific Island Countries

Jon Barnett, Mark Wang, Tearinaki Tanielu

The increasing presence of the Chinese government and its firms in the South Pacific is framed as a security risk to Australia and its alli..

May 6, 2024

pursuit Article

China welcomed Albanese but remains wary of Australia-US relations

Pradeep Taneja, Gezhi Ren

As the first Australian Prime Minister to visit China since 2016, Anthony Albanese repeatedly said his goal in meeting President Xi Jinping..

November 29, 2023

pursuit Article

Preserving China’s minority languages

Jinfang Li, Yongxian Luo

China is a diverse multi-ethnic country with a huge population of 1.4 billion people. It’s home to a rich array of ethnic groups who speak ..

December 15, 2022

pursuit Article

Directors’ duties and cyber security - it’s complicated

Rosemary Teele Langford, Andrew Godwin

According to the latest statistics from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), Australia has seen a dramatic rise in cybercrime activ..

September 3, 2021

pursuit Article

India's staggering COVID crisis could have been avoided. But the government dropped its guard too soon

Pradeep Taneja, Azad Singh Bali

India reported 314,000 new cases of COVID-19 on April 22, the highest-ever infection tally recorded by any country on a single day. Many..

April 23, 2021

conversation Article

Australia needs to embrace ‘Asianness’ as part of ‘Australianness’

Qiuping Pan, Jia Gao

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the deterioration of the relationship between Australia and China, there’s been a surge of ..

March 3, 2021

pursuit Article

Drivers v cyclists: it's like an ethnic conflict, which offers clues to managing 'road wars'

Andrew Dawson, Jennifer Day

Motorists and cyclists are akin to ethnic groups, our research shows. This means we might want to look to multiculturalism in managing rel..

June 10, 2020

conversation Article

One year on, is our trust being restored?

Andrew Godwin

A year on from when the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry handed down its oft..

January 30, 2020

pursuit Article

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Researchers

Projects

Strengthening Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Standards and Practices for a Just Transition

The Nexus of Public and Elite Opinions: Implications for Policies and Institutions

For the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies to Conduct Research and Create Networks to Empower the Global South's Global Governance Capacity and Make China’s International Development Cooperation More Accountable.

Global South Knowledge Network (BUILD Stage 1)

Communities, Kava, Court Orders: The Ways of Possessing the Pacific City

A Longitudinal Enquiry Into Chinese Women Graduates' Post-Study Experience

China's Law-Based Governance Revolution Under Xi Jinping

Ideology in Action: Educating Chinese Children in Law and Morality for the New Era

For the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies to Conduct Collaborative Research on Local Engagement Within Indonesia for Chinese Investment Projects and to Organise a Network of Scholars for Sharing China Knowledge in the Southeast Asia and Pacific

The Technopolitics of China's South - North Water Transfer Project

Scholarly Works

Strategic insights into China’s overseas acquisitions: state-owned mineral ventures in Australia

Regional disparities in China's construction boom and bust: capital switching from 2002 to 2022

Fighting against Sinophobia using ballot papers: An analysis of the votes of Chinese Australians in the 2022 federal election

How NGOs reshape urban green space justice in Beijing

Assessment of the compound impact of sea level rise, land subsidence and storm surge under climate change in ShangHai

Monroe Doctrine Redux: New Americanism and the Echoes of Empire in China and Japan

Flooding and injustice in Ningbo, China

China’s digitalised water governance and authoritarian environmentalism

Patriotic Nationalism as Commodity

The Braking Mechanism in Mao-Era Politics: Actions by Military Leaders After 1958

News

The Taiwanese pop megastar spreading the hidden Chinese history of Australia’s gold rush to a global audience

Growing a feeling of home in a new city

Australia and China should cooperate for the security of Pacific Island Countries

China welcomed Albanese but remains wary of Australia-US relations

Preserving China’s minority languages

Directors’ duties and cyber security - it’s complicated

India's staggering COVID crisis could have been avoided. But the government dropped its guard too soon

Australia needs to embrace ‘Asianness’ as part of ‘Australianness’

Drivers v cyclists: it's like an ethnic conflict, which offers clues to managing 'road wars'

One year on, is our trust being restored?

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