Events
Convened by ACIAC, this international forum intends to bring together emerging scholars from Australia, China and the Sinosphere, and elsewhere in the world for an exchange in Australian and Chinese studies in arts and culture.
In this workshop, Perth based Chinese-Australian artist Tami Xiang will talk about her photography project on Chinese "Left Behind Children".
In this seminar, Professor Jon Eugene von Kowallis from the University of New South Wales will talk about the founder of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun 鲁迅and his foremost exponent in Japan, the writer and philosopher Takeuchi Yoshimi 竹内好.
Australia and China have been major trading partners since the 1990s. Though cultural connections and collaborations have been building, misunderstandings between the two Asia-Pacific neighbours still remain. In this address, ACIAC Adjunct Professor Carrillo Gantner AC will look at some of the issues of living with pandas and koalas in the same forest.
Several of Linda Jaivin’s novels are set in China. In this seminar, she will talk about the inspiration, the research and the process of writing. She will also address the question: can anyone claim to ‘own’ the China story?
In this workshop, the artist Ms Rose Wong will share her works and artistic practices and illustrate how a change of media has facilitated her creativity.
You are invited to join ACIAC for our 2019 Chinese New Year Reception, and share the culture and fun behind the most cherished Chinese Festival.
In this seminar, ACIAC’s visiting Professor Ren Xiaofei and her colleagues Professor Feng Ruizheng, Dr Liu Feng and Mr Zhang Jie will speak about a key research project that seeks to track the overseas trajectories of translation and dissemination of some of these texts used by Chinese pedagogues with children.
In this workshop, Beijing-based contemporary Chinese Guqin master, Mr Wang Peng, will introduce the seven-stringed bridgeless zither, the Chinese Guqin.
This seminar takes a probe into the relatively short history of Australian literature research in China since 1980, and seeks to offer some insights not only into the kinds of Australian authors that have been of special interest to a special group of Chinese readers/researchers but also how they have been read by Chinese scholars.
