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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.

Prof Andrew Godwin

Prof Anthony Spires

Prof Claire Roberts

A/Prof Craig Smith

A/Prof Delia Lin

A/Prof Ester Leung

Prof Fran Martin

Dr Hao Wu

A/Prof Jennifer Day

Prof Jia Gao

Dr Lewis Mayo

Prof Mark Wang

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 73 for the research group.

Global South Knowledge Network (BUILD Stage 1)

2025 - 2028

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 - 2027

Active

Collaboration Between UIBE and Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies

2024 - 2026

Active

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

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

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 1610 for the research group.

The green territorialization of high Asia: national security, transboundary power, and the politics of climate legitimacy

Q Huang, M Wang

Journal article | 2026 | Political Geography

What rights and whose rights count? Housing activism in urban redevelopment in Shenzhen

X Gao, SS Han

Journal article | 2026 | Cities

Open access

The politics of spatial inclusion in Chinese urban redevelopment is largely dominated by the state, developers and owners. Tenants..

Discerning Prabowo Subianto's foreign policy: Populist personalisation and problematic changes

I Gede Wahyu Wicaksana, Pradeep Taneja, Probo Darono Yakti, Adam Amin Bahar

Journal article | 2026 | Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

Open access

This article analyses Indonesia's foreign policy under the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto, who took office in October 20..

Editorial: The new hydropolitics of China

S Rogers, AL Browne, B Wilmsen, M Wang

Journal article | 2026 | Geographical Research

Changing Place, Changing Time: Lifestyle‐Oriented Student Switching and the Quest for Temporal Flexibilization

Fran Martin

Journal article | 2026 | Population, Space and Place

Open access

Focussing on a group of middle-class women from China who studied in Australia and migrated there post-study, this paper contribut..

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..

Rising tides: Unveiling the spatial and temporal evolution of sea level rise under climate change

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

Journal article | 2026 | Plos One

Open access

This study systematically investigates the spatiotemporal evolution of sea level rise under climate change, employing a tri-scale ..

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

Xiao Ma, Sun Sheng Han

Book Chapter | 2026

Storytelling as a methodology for decolonising transport: insights from Banjarmasin

Dadang Meru Utomo, Jennifer Day

Journal article | 2026 | Mobilities

This article positions storytelling as both a method and a stance for advancing decolonial perspectives in urban transport researc..

Sinophone Australia

Journal article | 2026

Sinophone Australia opens a new window onto Australian history by foregrounding Chi-nese-language sources as a lens through which ..

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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Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies

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Researchers

Projects

Global South Knowledge Network (BUILD Stage 1)

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.

Collaboration Between UIBE and Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies

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

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

Scholarly Works

The green territorialization of high Asia: national security, transboundary power, and the politics of climate legitimacy

What rights and whose rights count? Housing activism in urban redevelopment in Shenzhen

Discerning Prabowo Subianto's foreign policy: Populist personalisation and problematic changes

Editorial: The new hydropolitics of China

Changing Place, Changing Time: Lifestyle‐Oriented Student Switching and the Quest for Temporal Flexibilization

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

Rising tides: Unveiling the spatial and temporal evolution of sea level rise under climate change

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

Storytelling as a methodology for decolonising transport: insights from Banjarmasin

Sinophone Australia

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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