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Asian Studies Association Of Australia
The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is the peak body of university experts and educators on Asian Studies in Australia. Established in 1976, the ASAA promotes and supports the study of Asia in Australian universities and knowledge of Asia among the broader community. Membership is primarily drawn from the university sector and includes academics and students engaged in teaching or research on Asia across a wide range of disciplines, including language teaching. The ASAA takes a strong interest in promoting knowledge about Asia in schools and in contributing to state and Commonwealth government policies related to Asia. The ASAA is administered by the Executive, which consists of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, '' Asian Studies Review'' Editor, and Publications Officer. The Council comprises the members of the Executive, one member each representing five regions of Asia as well as a Postgraduate Representative, Library Representative, Women's Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Studies Association Of Australia
The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is the peak body of university experts and educators on Asian Studies in Australia. Established in 1976, the ASAA promotes and supports the study of Asia in Australian universities and knowledge of Asia among the broader community. Membership is primarily drawn from the university sector and includes academics and students engaged in teaching or research on Asia across a wide range of disciplines, including language teaching. The ASAA takes a strong interest in promoting knowledge about Asia in schools and in contributing to state and Commonwealth government policies related to Asia. The ASAA is administered by the Executive, which consists of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, '' Asian Studies Review'' Editor, and Publications Officer. The Council comprises the members of the Executive, one member each representing five regions of Asia as well as a Postgraduate Representative, Library Representative, Women's Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Edwards (historian)
Louise Edwards FHKAH is an Australian sinologist. Her work has focused on women and gender issues in China and Asia. As of 2022, she is Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales and an honorary professor at both the Australia-China Research Institute and the University of Hong Kong. Education Edwards completed a BA at the University of Auckland, followed by a second BA at Murdoch University (1987). In 1991 she graduated from Griffith University with a PhD for her thesis, "The use of the discourse of sexual equality in Hongxue of the twelve beauties (1979–1989)". In addition to these degrees, Edwards spent time at two Chinese universities, the Beijing Language and Culture University and Nanjing University. Career Over her career, Edwards has worked at a number of universities including the University of Hong Kong and in Australia at the University of Queensland, Australian National University and Australian Catholic University. She has w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Jeffrey
Robin Bannerman Jeffrey is a Canadian-born professor. His primary research interest is the modern history and politics of India, especially with reference the northern area of Punjab and Kerala in the south. He is also interested in Indian media studies and development studies. Life Robin Jeffrey was born in Canada. He studied first at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from where he graduated with a BA degree. He was awarded a D.Phil. in modern Indian history by the University of Sussex, England, in 1973 and had previously worked as a school teacher in Chandigarh, India, for the Regional Institute of English and the Canadian University Service Overseas between 1967 and 1969. His first employment had been in 1963 as a sports writer for a small daily newspaper in Canada. Jeffrey took up a position as a research fellow at the Australian National University upon completion of his doctorate. He has taught at that institution in Canberra during two different per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki (born 29 October 1951 in England), born as Tessa Morris, is a historian of modern Japan and North Korea. She is Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University. She is also a coordinator of an open access journal ''AsiaRights'', and has served as president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. She was the winner of the Academic Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2013. Early life Born in England, she obtained her B.A. in Russian history in University of Bristol, M.A. and Ph.D. in Economic history of Japan in University of Bath. She lived and worked in Japan before emigrating to Australia in 1981. Tessa Morris married to the Japanese writer Hiroshi Suzuki and incorporated her husband's surname into her double surname. In turn, her husband incorporated her surname into his pen name as ''Morisu Hiroshi''. Academic career Her research focuses on Japan's frontiers and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Elson
Robert Edward Elson is an historian, author and academic regarded as an authority on Indonesian history, with his biography of former President Suharto and works on the cultivation system in Colonial Java (the latter frequently being described by Elson himself as "very long and very boring books") considered leading works on their subjects. He also teaches on an undergraduate level about nationalism in the region. He has taught at the University of Queensland, Brisbane; and at Griffith University. Elson has many contacts with other leading scholars of his field, including names such as Benedict Anderson and Anthony Reid, as well as with certain political leaders of the region - such as Anwar Ibrahim. Elson was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Reid (academic)
Anthony Reid (born 19 June 1939) is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia. His doctoral work at Cambridge University examined the contest for power in northern Sumatra, Indonesia in the late 19th century, and he extended this study into a book ''The Blood of the People'' on the national and social revolutions in that region 1945–49. He is most well known for his two volume book " Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce", developed during his time at the Australian National University in Canberra. His later work includes a return to Sumatra where he explored the historical basis for the separate identity of Aceh; interests in nationalism, Chinese diaspora and economic history, and latterly the relation between geology and deep history. Professor Reid taught Southeast Asian history at University of Malaya (1965–1970) and Australian National University (1970–1999). He became the founding director of the Southeast Asia Center, University of California, Los Angeles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackerras
Colin Patrick Mackerras (; born 26 August 1939 Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, Australian-Chinese relations and images of China in the West. Biography Mackerras was raised Catholic and pursued an M.A. degree at the University of Cambridge. In 1964 he went with his wife, Alyce Mackerras, for the first time to China, where their first son was born. Mackerras taught in Beijing until 1966 at the Foreign Language Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University), returning in 1986, 2005, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2010 and 2011–12. He was awarded a Doctor Of Philosophy by the Australian National University in 1970. He was Chair Professor and Research Scholar at the Australian National University in 1966–1969. He was Professor at the School of Modern Asian Studies at Griffith University in 1974–2004. At Griffith he serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Mackie (academic)
James Austin Copland Mackie (1924–2011), known as Jamie Mackie, was an Australian academic, described by The Australian as one of the country's "pioneers of its post-war engagement with Asia" and by The Age as having had a "distinguished academic career to the study of post-colonial south-east Asia." Born in Kandy to the Australian manager of a tea plantation, he studied in Melbourne and Oxford before working "with the Colombo Plan in Jakarta from 1956 to 1958, working with the newly established National Planning Bureau." He taught at the University of Melbourne (1958–1967) and Monash University (1968–1978) and edited the ASAA Review. He is also credited with playing a major role in the dismantling of the White Australia policy, which severely restricted non-White migration. After his death, the J.A.C. Mackie Memorial Endowment was established by the Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen FitzGerald (diplomat)
Stephen Arthur FitzGerald (born 1938) is a former Australian diplomat. He was Australian Ambassador to China, its first to the People's Republic of China, between 1973 and 1976. Life and career Birth, education and early career FitzGerald was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1938. He was educated at the Launceston Church Grammar School, graduating in 1956. Between 1957 and 1960, FitzGerald attended the University of Tasmania. One of the courses FitzGerald took, Asian History run by New Zealander George Wilson, helped him to develop an interest in Asia. FitzGerald joined the Australian Public Service in the Department of External Affairs in 1961. He learnt to speak Chinese at RAAF Point Cook. He arrived in Hong Kong in 1962 on official duties, which he described as the "centre of China-watching". He enjoyed his time there immensely, but did feel uncomfortable with the city being still being a British colony. He resigned from the external affairs department in 1966 when he disagree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Low
Donald Anthony Low (22 June 1927 – 12 February 2015), known as Anthony Low or D. A. Low, was a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization. He was the Emeritus Smuts Professor of History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge, former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Education Low was born in 1927 and gained his doctorate from Oxford University. Career highlights The academic positions which Professor Low has held include the following: *Founding Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex, 1968–1971 *Dean, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University, 1973–1974 *Vice Chancellor, Australian National University, Canberra, 1975–1982 *Smuts Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth, University of Cambridge, 1983–1994 *President, Clare Hall, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Legge
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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