Our latest podcast episode explores the origins of our project and the comprehensive digital portal showcasing the rich heritage of Western Australia's Chinese community 🔍✨ Listen now at linktr.ee/chinesewa 🎧 and visit chinesewa.net to browse our portal today!

Applications for the Reid Prize 2025 remain open and will close at the end of March Read more and apply now here: asaa.asn.au/grants-awards/…

11/2/75 The People's Daily reports on how criticising Lin Biao and Confucius inspired a young woman to enter the male-dominated world of shoe repair.

Three Sisters, by Yamakawa Shūhō, 1936

In the next webinar of Talks in Chinese Humanities, join Dr Lap Lam of NUS as he explores 'Xingzhou' (Star Island), an imagistic designation for Singapore advocated by the “Poet Master of the South” Qiu Shuyuan (1874–1941). 🗓️ Fri 28 Feb, 12pm: bit.ly/3QkSOya

⭐️ There's just over a month left to apply for the ASAA's Reid Prize 2025 ⭐️ The Reid Prize provides important recognition for work that has made an exemplary contribution to the understanding of Asia in Australia Read more and apply here: asaa.asn.au/grants-awards/…

💰 Applications for the ASAA's Postdoctoral Writing Grant remain open 💰 This Grant comprises $5,000 to support ASAA members who are PhD graduates to develop their work for publication Read more and apply now here: asaa.asn.au/grants-awards/…

🇯🇵 Explore the utopian visions of 1970s Japan at The Japan Foundation, Sydney's free event on the #OsakaExpo w/ Dr Matthew Shores who will explore the transformation of 70s Japanese comedy & how traditional art forms adapted to a new media landscape. 🗓️ Thur 13 March, 6pm: bit.ly/4kmDAqa

The month's podcast episode delves into Liang Qichao's 12-day visit to Western Australia in 1900! 🇦🇺🇨🇳 🎧 Listen to Episode 4: Liang Qichao's 1900 Visit to Western Australia today! 👉 [ linktr.ee/chinesewa ] New episodes drop on the 5th of every month. Stay tuned!

The Wang Gungwu Prize for the best article in Asian Studies Review in 2024 has been awarded to Associate Professor Jenny Munro for her article ‘West Papuan ‘Housewives’ with HIV: Gender, Marriage and Inequality in Indonesia’ Read more here: asaa.asn.au/news/wang-gung…

Chinese Studies Association of Australia’s (CSAA) 2025 Conference will take place at the University of Melbourne from 29 November – 4 December. Call for Abstracts - due by 30 August.

Louise Edwards' Annual Academy Lecture, 'Australians - The "Aristocrats" of Asia?' will go to air on Big Ideas on ABC National Radio today at 8pm, with a repeat lecture tomorrow at midday Listen to the program from 5pm here: abc.net.au/listen/program…

New blogs on our website: Highlights of Manchu and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton (in 2 parts): manchustudiesgroup.org/2025/03/19/hig… manchustudiesgroup.org/2025/03/19/hig…

Applications to the ASAA's Reid Prize 2025 will close next Friday 28 March. The Reid Prize is to the value of $8,000 and recognises work that has made an exemplary contribution to understanding of Asia Get your application in here: asaa.asn.au/grants-awards/…

Ebony Nilsson unearths the letters sent by members of the Australian public to Robert Menzies during the Petrov Affair. Listen now - open access! australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-th…

At the next Talks in Chinese Humanities webinar, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities History PhD student Renzhe Zhang will present his paper on the ideological complexities of the Chinese diaspora in Australia during the early 20th century. 🗓️💻 Fri 28 Mar, 12pm: bit.ly/4j2eCeg China Studies Centre

Curious about early Chinese-Australian businesses in Western Australia? 🧐 Our latest podcast episode delves into See Sing & Co., a pioneering Chinese-Australian enterprise that connected Cossack, Broome & Roebourne 🗺 🎧 Listen to Episode 6 today! 👉 linktr.ee/chinesewa

Join Yu TAO of #UWA at the next Talks in Chinese Humanities webinar, as he presents the innovative Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia digital platform that revives an under-examined chapter of Australian history. 💻 Fri 27 Jun, 12pm: bit.ly/4nAdRfF

Join us on Friday to hear about Yu TAO’s digital platform ‘Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia’ - an important new resource for researching Australian history

Join our 2025 Sydney China Distinguished Fellow Prof Emily Wilcox (William & Mary & Guggenheim New York Fellow in Dance Studies) at SydneyConMusic as she explores the cross-cultural reception of African dance in early socialist China in the 1960s. 🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 4pm: bit.ly/4eUmAVH