The China Research Centre (CRC) at UTS is one of the most productive and dynamic working on the development of China in Australia. Its focus rests on the exploration of social and cultural change in China with an interdisciplinary approach. The China Research Group also performs a leadership role in advancing Australian scholarship on China by serving as the host for the China Node of the ARC's Asia Pacific Futures Research Network. and is the NSW section of the China Law Network

The CRC's recent and forthcoming publications cover a range of pressing social, political and cultural issues in China's development. The flier outlining these books is available here (2007 and 2008).

The CRC has a number of research themes currently operating. These involve a program of guest speakers, collaborative projects with industry partners, a book series, as well as the individual research projects of IIS staff and students. They include:

Arts and Media in China: Transforming the Production of Ideas and Sciences
Political and Economic Shifts in China: Domestic and International Pressures
Gender and Social Change in China
Provincial China: Local Identity, Place and Region
Building a healthy region: Challenges for Health Reform in China
Latin America and China: Evolving Relationships

The Provincial China theme also involves an annual Workshop held in various PRC provinces. In 2008 it will run from the 27th to 31st October, and will be held at Nankai University, Tianjin, P.R.C. The theme for 2008 will be ‘Social problems and the local welfare mix in China: Public policies and private initiatives’.
Information on the program can be found here

CONTACT:Claire Moore
Project Officer
Ph: 02 9514 1591
Fax: 02 9514 1578
Email:Claire.Moore@uts.edu.au

Researchers in the China Research Centre include:

• Professor Louise Edwards, Director of UTS China Research Centre; Professor of China Studies, UTS Institute for International Studies
• Dr Kate Barclay
• Dr Beatriz Carrillo Garcia
• Professor Eng Chew
• Dr Susette Cooke
• Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
• Associate Professor Feng Chongyi
• Professor David S G Goodman, Professor of Contemporary China Studies, UTS Institute for International Studies
• Dr Guo Yingjie, Chinese Languages Coordinator, UTS Institute for International Studies
• Dr Colin Hawes
• Dr Adrian H Hearn
• Dr Elaine Jeffreys, Senior Lecturer in China Studies; Associate Director (Teaching and Learning) and Head of Asia Pacific Studies
• Professor David Kelly
• Dr Kylie Redfern
• Dr Yang Jingqing, Director of the Chinese Studies higher degree program
• Dr Zheng Yi
  

Postgraduate researchers

For a sample of some of the postgraduate researchers in the China Research Centre follow this link.

Associate researchers

• Professor Mary Farquhar (Griffith University)
• Associate Professor Hans Hendrischke (University of New South Wales)
• Professor Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University)
• Professor Barbara Krug (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
• Dr Yixu Lu (Sydney University)
• Dr Jonathan Markley (California State University, Fullerton)
• Dr Pãl Nyiri (Macquarie University)
• Professor Gary Rawnsley (University of Leeds; Adjunct Professor, IIS)
• Dr Yiyan Wang (University of Sydney)

Advisory board members

The UTS China Research Group draws support from a number of internationally renown China scholars:

• Gregor Benton (University of Cardiff)
• Shaun Breslin ((University of Warwick)
• Frank Dikotter (Hong Kong University)
• Sally Siyi Gong (Shanghai University)
• Heike Holbig (Hamburg University)
• Hsin-Huang Hsiao (Academia Sinica)
• Pan Suiming (Renmin University of China)
• Tony Saich (Harvard University)
• Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University)
• Jing Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Roberto HERNANDEZ (University of Guadalajara)
• Gary Rawnsley (Leeds University)

CONTACT:Claire Moore
Project Officer
Ph: 02 9514 1591
Fax: 02 9514 1578
Email:Claire.Moore@uts.edu.au