East Asian Studies - Staff

China

Professor Geremie R Barmé (History, Literature, Culture and Linguistics)
Professor Andrew Byrnes (Law)
Professor Mark Elvin (History)
Professor Christopher Findlay (Economics)
Professor Ross Garnaut (Economics and Public Policy)
Professor Stuart Harris (Political Science and International Relations)
Professor Terry Hull (Demography)
Professor Kam Louie (Gender Studies; Literature, Culture and Linguistics)

Professor Gavin McCormack (History)
Professor Warwick McKibbin (Economics)
Professor Jonathan Unger (Sociology)
Dr Andrew Kipnis (Anthropology)
Dr Nicholas Tapp (Anthropology)
Dr Zhongwei Zhao (Demography)
Dr Ligang Song (Economics)
Dr Chunlai Chen (Economics)
Dr Jane Golley (Economics)
Dr Xin Meng (Economics)
Dr Rod Tyers (Economics)
Dr Mei Wen (Economics)
Ms Tiejun Yang (Economics and Language)
Dr Louise Edwards (Gender Studies; Literature, Culture and Linguistics)
Dr Tamara Jacka (Gender Studies; Sociology)
Dr Borge Bakken (History; Sociology)
Dr Colin Jeffcott (History and Philosophy)
Dr Narangoa Li (History)
Dr Benjamin Penny (History and Philosophy)
Dr Aat Vervoorn (History and Culture)
Dr Philip Rose (Literature, Culture and Linguistics)
Dr Kathryn Morton (Political Science and International Relations)
Dr Luigi Tomba (Political Science and International Relations)
Dr Peter Van Ness (Political Science and International Relations)
Dr Anita Chan (Sociology)
Dr Frank Lewins (Sociology)

Japan

Dr Tomoko Akami (History)
Dr Kent Anderson (Language and Law)
Professor Jenny Corbett (Contemporary Japanese Economy)
Professor Peter Drysdale (Economics)
Dr Peter Hendriks (Language and Linguistics)
Mr Shun Ikeda (Language, Education, Culture and Society)
Mr Shun Ishihara (Language and Linguistics)
Dr Lee Duck-Young (Language and Linguistics)
Dr Narangoa Li (Language and History)
Professor Gavin McCormack (History)
Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki (History)
Dr Kenneth Wells (History Language and Literature)

Korea

Dr Lee Duck-Young (Language and Linguistics)
Dr Andrei Lankov (Language Politics and History)

Professor Gavin McCormack (History)
Dr Gi-hyun Shin (Language and Linguistics)
Dr Heather Smith (Economics)
Dr Kenneth Wells (History, Literature and Language)

PROFILES
Kent Anderson
Dr Kent Anderson [BA (Middlebury); MA, JD (Washington U); MJur (Oxon)] is an academic in the Faculty of Law at the ANU. His research interests include; Japanese Law, Insolvency, Private International Law, Law & Film. Included in his most recent publications are Small Business Reorganizations: An Examination of Japan's Civil Rehabilitation Act Considering U.S. Policy Implications and Foreign Creditors' Practical Interests', 75 Am. Bankr. L. J. 355 (2001) and Issues of Private International Law and Civil Procedure Arising Out of the U.S. Civil Suits for Forced Labor During WWII:To What Extent Do U.S. Conflict and Procedural Rules Obstruct Private Liability for Wartime Human Rights Violations? (2001 Y.B. Priv a te Int'l L). Kent's forthcoming publications for 2002 are; 'An Asian Pinochet?-Not Likely: The Unfulfilled International Law Promise of Japan's Treatment of Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori', 38 Stanford J. Int'l L and, 'Federal Court Jurisdiction Over Tortious Violations of International Law', 101 J. Int'l L & Diplo, (in Japanese) (Journal of Japanese Society if Int'l Law,)
Geremie R. Barmé
Professor Barmé [BA (Asian Studies), PhD (ANU); FAHA; Professor and Convenor, Pacific and Asian History Division, RSPAS]. Recent publications include (with L. Jaivin) New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices (NY, 1992); Shades of Mao: the Posthumous Career of the Great Leader (NY, 1996); In the Red: on contemporary Chinese culture (Columbia, 1999); An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (Berkeley, 2002). Professor Barmé's research interests include; 20th Century Chinese intellectual and cultural history; Contemporary Chinese cultural and intellectual debates; modern Historiography; Ming-Qing literature and aesthetics; and cultural Revolution History.
Email: geremie@coombs.anu.edu.au
Anita Chan
Dr Chan [BA(HK); MA (York, Canada); MA (London); PhD(Sussex); ARC Senior Research Fellow with the China and Korea Centre] researches Chinese sociology; comparative socialist and post-socialist systems, labour issues and industrial relations in China. Her publications for 2001 include: China's Workers Under Assault: the Exploitation of Labour in a Globalising Economy, Armonk, New York: M.E.Sharpe, 2001, 244 pp., With Zhu Xiaoyang and Carma Hinton, Symbolism and Undercurrents: The 1989 Mass Movement, Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 2001), 81pp.; With Zhu Xiaoyang and Carma Hinton, Symbolism and Undercurrents: The 1989 Mass Movement, Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2001), 90 pp. , "China and the International Labour Movement, China Review, issue 19 (Summer 2001), pp.9-13. The Culture of Survival: Lives of Migrant Workers Through the Prism of Private Letters, in Perry Link, Richard Madsen and Paul Pickowicz, eds., Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalising Society (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield), 2002, pp.163-188.
Email: anita@coombs.anu.edu.au
Jenny Corbett
Professor Corbett [PhD (University of Michigan, MA (Oxon), BA (Hons) ANU] specialises in contemporary Japanese economics. Her Recent and Major publications include; with Janet Mitchell, 'Bank Crises and Bank Rescues; the Effect of Reputation' Journal of Money Credit and Banking, (August 2000), with Andrea Boltho, 'The Assessment', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol 16 (Summer 2000), with David Vines, 'The Asian Crisis: Lessons form the Collapse of Financial Systems, Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Policy' in Agenor, Miller, Vines and Weber (eds) and The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences , (1999). She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Research Associate with the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (Columbia University, New York), and a member of the Editorial Board, Japanese Business and Economics Series.
Email: jenny.corbett@anu.edu.au
Peter Drysdale
Professor Drysdale [AM, BA(UNE); PhD(ANU), Executive Director, Australia-Japan Research Centre APSEG] which is responsible for an Australia-wide research program on economic relations with Japan and the Asia Pacific, and involving research cooperation with economists in Japan and other countries throughout the region. His publications include International Economic Pluralism: economic policy in East Asia and the Pacific (Allen & Unwin 1988). Professor Drysdale's research interests are; Asia-Pacific economic integration; international trade and economic policy; foreign direct investment; China's trade and transformation; East Asian economic policies.
Louise Edwards
Dr Louise Edwards [BA (Auckland), PhD (Griffith)]. Her research interest is primarily gender in China and she is currently working on a book on Chinese women's participation in politics. Her publications include Men and Women in Qing China (Leiden: EJ Brill, and Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2001); Women in Asia: tradition, modernity and globalisation ed. with Mina Roces (Sydney: Allen and Unwin and Ann Arbor: University of Michigan 2000); Recreating the Literary Canon: Communist Critiques of the Red Chamber Dream (Bochum: Ruhr University Chinathemen, 1995); and Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei ed. with Kam Louie (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
Email: Louise.Edwards@anu.edu.au
Mark Elvin
Professor Mark Elvin [MA (Cantab et Oxon), PhD (Cambridge), Pacific and Asian History]. Research interests include; Chinese history: environment, economy, demography, proto-science, geography and emotions. His key publications are; Cultural Atlas of China, (1983, rev ed, 1998 with C.Blunden), Another History, (1996), Changing Stories in the Chinese World, (1997), and Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History, (1998). In 1993 he was the Inaugural Holder of the Chaire Européenne at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Ross Garnaut
Professor Garnaut [AO, BA(ANU); PhD(ANU), FASSA; Professor of Economics, Economics Division RSPAS] specialises in international and domestic economic development and policy. His publications include; with Ross McLeod, East Asia in Crisis: From Being a Miracle to Needing One? (NY and London 1998), The Third Revolution in the Chinese Countryside (Melb 1996), Open Regionalism: an Asia Pacific contribution to the world trade system (Singapore 1996), and China: Twenty Years of Economic Reform (1999). His research interests are China's economic reforms and internationalisation; Asia-Pacific economic cooperation; Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region; and domestic economic adjustment to Asia-Pacific economic development.
Peter Hendriks
Dr Hendriks [BA/AS hons (ANU), MA (Osaka University of Foreign Studies), (Yale); Lecturer, Japan Centre] specialises in the history of Japanese language, the history of Japanese dialects, historical syntax and morphology, and acquisition of Japanese as a second language. His publications include Review of Bjarke Frellesvig, A Case Study In Diachronic Phonology: The Japanese Onbin Sound Changes, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, (1998), and Kakari-musubi and the merger of the predicative and attributive forms in the Japanese verbal system, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 7 (1997). He is a member of the Linguistic Society of America, the Association of Teachers of Japanese (USA), and the Association for Asian Studies (USA).
Shun Ikeda
Mr Ikeda [BA(Asian Studies) Hons. (ANU); MEd(SUNY at Buffalo); Senior Lecturer, Japan Centre] specialises in Japanese language, education, culture and society. He also has research interests in comparative education in Asia and in socio-linguistics (language policy and planning). He has published a translation of The Confucian Renaissance (by R. Little & W. Reed) (Tokyo, 1989). He is a member of the Comparative and International Education Society; the Australia and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society; the Japanese Studies Association of Australia; the Asian Studies Association of Australia; and, the Association for Asian Studies (USA).
Shun Ishihara
Mr Ishihara [BEd (Shizuoka); GradDip (ANU); MA (ANU); Lecturer, Japan Centre] is currently investigating the prosody of Kagoshima Japanese towards his PhD degree. His research interests include acoustic linguistics and speech and Language processing. He is an executive member of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
Tamara Jacka
Dr Jacka [BA Hon. ANU; PhD (Adelaide)] is a Senior Lecturer, China and Korea Centre] and specialises in the study of contemporary Chinese society and issues relating to women and development. Her research interests are in gender relations in contemporary China, women in rural-urban migration and the politics and epistemologies of cross-cultural research. Her publications include Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and a number of articles on women in contemporary China. She is currently working on an ethnography of women in rural-urban migration in China, and beginning new projects on women's NGOs in China and women's suicide in rural China. Together with Arianne Gaetano, she is co-editing On the Move: Women in Rural-Urban Migration in China, to be published by Columbia University Press in 2003. Her book, Sisters and Sojourners: Rural Women in Urban China is due to be published by ME Sharpe in 2004.
Colin A. Jeffcott
Dr Jeffcott [BA(NZ); MA(Oxford); PhD(ANU); Lecturer, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories] specialises in the social and economic history of China (especially, during the Song Dynasty period), in Neo-Confucian philosophical history, and, in the comparative social history of Japan and China. His publications include Peng Shaosheng, in (ed. B. Penny) Biography and Religious Traditions in Asia (Canberra, 1995).
Andrei Lankov
Dr Lankov [MA, PhD(St Petersburg); Lecturer, China and Korea Centre] specialises in the language, politics and history of Korea. His publications include Factions and Political Conflicts in 16-18th Century Korea (in Russian) (Petersburg, 1995); Political History of North Korea (in Korean) (Seoul, 1995); and, Under the Roofs of Pyongyang (Seoul, 1991).
Lee Duck-Young
Dr Lee [GradDip (Tokyo Uni For Stu); MA (Tsukuba); PhD (ANU); Lecturer, Japan Centre] is a specialist in Japanese and Korean linguistics. His research interests are in phonology, interface between grammar and pragmatics, and Japanese teaching methodologies. His publications include: (with M. Chiharu) A study of Japanese back channels, ALAA: Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Japanese (1998): (with A Yoshida) A study of nda-kedo in spoken Japanese, "Sekai no Nohongo" vol. 12; and the function of the zero particle with special reference to spoken Japanese in Journal of Pragmatics (in press). He is currently working on distinct features of spoken Japanese.
Kam Louie
Professor Kam Louie [BA, PhD, DipEd (Syd), MPhil (CUHK), GradCert (Peking), FAHA] - Head, China and Korea Centre - is a speciaslist in Chinese language, gender and literature. As well as some fifty book chapters and journal articles, he has thirteen books under his name. These include Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China (Cambridge 2002); (with Bob Hodge), The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture (London 1998); (with Bonnie McDougall), The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century (New York, London 1997); (ed & trans with Louise Edwards), Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei (New York 1996); (ed), Strange Tales from Strange Lands: Stories by Zheng Wanlong (Ithaca 1993); (ed) New Developments in Chinese Language Teaching (Melbourne 1992); Between Fact and Fiction: Essays on Post-Mao Chinese Literature and Society (Sydney 1989); Inheriting Tradition: Interpretations of the Classical Philosophers in Communist China, 1949-1966 (Hong Kong & Oxford 1986) and Critiques of Confucius in Contemporary China (New York, Hong Kong 1980).
Email: Kam.Louie@anu.edu.au
Professor McCormack
Professor McCormack [BA, LLB, MA(Melb.); BA, MA, PhD(London); Professor, Pacific and Asian History Division, RSPAS] specialises in the political, intellectual and environmental history of Japan, China and Korea. He is also interested in Australia-Asia relations. His publications include (ed. with Y. Sugimoto) Democracy in Contemporary Japan (NY, 1986); translated and published in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (NY, 1996); and, Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Post-modern, co-edited with Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, and Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Cambridge, New York and Oakleigh, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Professor Morris-Suzuki [BA(Bristol); PhD(Bath); FAHA; Professor, Pacific and Asian History Division, RSPAS] specialises in Japanese economic and technological history. She also has interests in Japanese ethnic minorities and cultural and social issues as well as in media and globalisation in East and Southeast Asia. Her publications include; Re-inventing Japan: Time Space, Nation, with M.E. Sharpe (1990), Henkyô Kara Nagameru (The View from the Frontier), with Misuzu Shobô, (2000), Japanese Capitalism since 1945 (NY, 1989); and The Technological Transformation of Japan (Cambridge, 1994). She is a member of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia and the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Narangoa Li
Dr Narangoa Li [BA (uni Inner Mongolia). MA PhD (Bonn), Senior Lecturer, Japan Centre]. Recent publications include, Educating Mongols and Making Citizens of Manchukuo in Inner Asia, vol. 3 no 2 (2001), pp 3-21; Japanische Religionspolitik in der Mongolei 1932-1945. Reformbestrebungen und Dialog zwischen japanischem und mongolischem Buddhismus [Japanese Policy toward Religion in Mongolia 1932-1945: Reform Initiatives and Dialogue between Japanese and Mongolian Buddhism], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998; Die Iwakura-Mission: Das Logbuch des Kume Kunitake ueber den Besuch der japanischen Sondergesandtschaft in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz im Jahre 1873 (with Peter Pantzer, Matthias Eichhorn, Kerstin Hilker and Monika Schrimpf), München: Judicium, 2002; Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895-1945 (with Robert Cribb, eds), Richmond: CurzonRoutledge, 2003.and is currently working on two books, Mongolians from Country to City: floating boundaries, pastoralism, and city life in the Mongol lands during the 20th Century (with Ole Bruun), and A Historical Atlas of North East Asia (with Robert Cribb). She is co-editor of EARJ-Newsletter (European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists, a member of the Association for Asian Studies, the European Association for Japanese Resource Specialists and the Association of Modern Japanese Literature.
Benjamin D. C. Penny
Dr Penny [PhD (ANU)] is a specialist in the religion and history of China. His publications include: Immortality and Transcendence in L.Kohn, Daoism Handbook (EJ Brill, 2000); The Text and Authorship of Shenxian zhuan, Journal of Oriental Studies (1996); Meeting the Celestial Master, East Asian History (1998), and Buddhism and Daoism in the 180 Precepts of Lord Lao, Taoist Resources (1996). His edited volume, Biography and Religion in China and Tibet, is currently at press with Curzon Press, London. He is on the editorial board of Curzon Studies in Daoism and is a member of Nippon Dokyo Gakkai and the Australian Chinese Studies Association.
Shin Gi-Hyun
Dr Shin [BA, MA(ANU); PhD(Monash); Lecturer in Korean with the China and Korea Centre] is a specialist in Korean language and linguistics. He is currently working to develop Korean teaching materials for Australian university students. His publications include: Apjonbeop an and emerging new politeness strategy in Contemporary Korean in Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference Korean Studies Association of Australia, (September 2001), (with A. Buzo) Learning Korean: New Directions, Books 1-2 (Melb, 1994); (with A. Buzo) Learning Korean: Advanced Study Module, Books 3-4 (Melb.). Dr Shin's main research interests include Korean grammar, pragmatics and socio-linguistics; and, the culture specificity of speech acts. He is a member of the Korean Studies Association of Australia and the Australian Linguistic Society.
Heather Smith
Dr Smith [BEc(QLD); PhD(ANU), Fellow in the Economics Division RSPAS] specialises in economic reform in South and North Korea. Two of her projects are: South Korean economic restructuring, and prospects for economic reform in North Korea. Her publications include: The Food Economy: The Catalyst for Collapse in the Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsular (Washington 1998), Korea in R. Garnaut and R. McLeod, East Asia Crisis (London 1998), Industry Policy in East Asia in Asian Pacific Economic Literature (1998).
Ligang Song
Dr Song [BA(Renmin), MA(International University of Japan, PhD(ANU), Fellow, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government] specialises in applied international trade, transition economics, the Chinese economy and the Asian Pacific economies. His recent research work focuses on the emerging private enterprise in China. Publications include: APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy, with Peter Drysdale and Zhang (Eds) (2000), China's Entry to the WTO: Strategic Issues and Quantitative Assessment, ed with Peter Drysdale (2000), Regional cooperation and the environment: do "dirty" industries migrate? (with Xinpeng Xu), Welwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 136, no.1 (2000), 137-157 and State-owned enterprise and bank reform in China: conditions for liberalisation of the capital account (with Yiping Huang), Chapter 10 in Peter Drysdale (ed), Reform and Recovery in East Asia: the Role of the State and Economic Enterprise, (2000) 214-228.
Jonathan Unger
Professor Unger [BA(ReedColl), D.Phil(Sussex); Head, Contemporary China Centre, RSPAS] is a specialist on Chinese social issues. He is also interested in Chinese rural, educational, family, economic and political issues and in organisational change with China. His publications include: Transformation of Rural China (2002), (ed.) Chinese Nationalism (1996), Chen Village Under Mao and Deng (as co-author) (1992), (ed) The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces (1991), and Education under Mao (1982). He is Co-editor of The China Journal.
Aat E. Vervoorn
Dr Vervoorn [BA, MA(Cant.); BA(Asian Studies); PhD(ANU), Senior Lecturer, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories] specialises in Chinese social and intellectual history as well as in social and cultural change in contemporary Asia in general. His publications include: Re Orient: Change in Asian Societies (Melb., 1998); a number of books and papers about education in Australia; and Men of the Cliffs and Caves: A Study in Chinese Intellectual History (HK, 1990).
Kenneth M. Wells
Dr Wells [BA, MA(Cant.); PhD(ANU); Senior Lecturer with the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories] specialises in the history, language, and literature of North and South Korea as well as the history of Japanese imperialism. Dr Wells' current research interests encompass the Korean women's movements under Colonialism, Korean Historiography, Protestantism and Korean nationalism. His publications include; Providence and Power: Korean Protestant Responses to Japanese Imperialism in Frans Hüsken and Dick vander Meij (eds), Reading Asia: New Research in Asian Studies (2001), Korean Studies: Humanities - Prospects and Imperatives in Proceedings of First Biennial International Symposium (2001), New God, New Nation: Protestantism and Self-Reconstruction Nationalism in Korea, 1896-1937 (Hawaii, 1991); and, (ed.) South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence (Hawaii, 1995). Dr Wells is on the editorial board for the journal Positions: East Asia Culture Critique. He is the founder of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia and is a member of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. He is also a member of the National Library of Australia Korean Collection Committee.
Yang Tiejun
Ms Yang [BA(Nankai); GradDip, MA(ANU); Lecturer, China and Korea Centre] specialises in the language, economics and economic development of China and Taiwan. Ms Yang is currently researching the incorporation of Western economic thought in Chinese economic reforms. Her secondary research interest is in the comparative study of the syntactic structures of Chinese and English. Amongst her publications are US Trade Laws and their Implications on China's Foreign Trade 1981-88, Foreign Trade Reporter: Almanac of China's Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (1986,1987 & 1988 editions). She is a member of the ACT Chinese Teachers Association and is a member of the Organising Committee of the Australian National Chinese Eisteddfod.