Associate Professor Chongyi Feng

Biography

Dr Feng Chongyi is Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin.  He is China’s first holder of PhD in contemporary Chinese history and served as head of China Studies at UTS for 11 years during 1995-2006. His current research focuses on intellectual and political development in modern and contemporary China, as well as political economy of China’s provinces. His research explores the intellectual and political changes, the growth of rights consciousness and democratic forces in particular, leading to constitutional democracy in China. In addition to over ninety articles in academic journals and edited volumes, and numerous articles in newspapers and on the Internet, he is author of Peasant Consciousness and China (1989); Bertrand Russell and China (1994); China’s Hainan Province: Economic Development and Investment Environment (1995); The Struggle of National Spirit in National Crisis: Chinese Culture During the Period of the War of Resistance Against Japan (1995); From Sinification to Globalisation (2003); The Wisdom of Reconciliation: China’s Road to Liberal Democracy (1995); Liberalism within the CCP: From Chen Duxiu to Lishenzhi (2009); Principles and Passion: Prefaces and Poems of Feng Chongyi (2011); and China’s Constitutional Transformation (2014). He is also editor of The Political Economy of China’s Provinces (1999); North China at War: The Social Economy of Revolution, 1937-1945 (2000); Constitutional Government and China (2004); Li Shenzhi and the Fate of Liberalism in China (2004); China in the Twentieth Century (2006); Constitutional Democracy and Harmonious Society (2007) and China in Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (2008). He has been named one of the hundred Chinese public intellectuals in the world by several Chinese websites since 2005.

汪诗明，

南京大学历史学博士，复旦大学公共管理博士后，澳大利亚国立大学高级访问学者，华东师范大学教授、博士生和博士后导师，上海国际问题研究院联合博士后导师，《苏州科技大学学报》编辑部主任，《苏州科技大学学报》（社会科学版）主编，聊城大学兼职教授，聊城大学太平洋岛国研究中心兼职研究员，南京大学南海问题协同创新中心兼职研究员，中山大学大洋洲研究中心兼职研究员。

Laurie Ferguson

Laurie Ferguson has a MA and BEc from the University of Sydney. He was State Mp for Granville 1984/90 and Commonwealth MP for Reid and then Werriwa 1990/2016. Laurie had previously worked as a Research office r for the Miscellaneous Workers Union.  He held a variety of  Shadow  Ministerial roles and was Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism.     In Canberra he was especially active on foreign affairs, immigration and human rights.

Dr YU Changsen, is an Associate Professor at the School of Pacific Studies, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China. As an executive director, Dr YU is currently in charge of the National Center for Oceania Studies attached to the university. He obtained a doctorate in World History at Xiamen University in 1992. He teaches Australian foreign policy and international strategy at the Department of International Relations. From 1998 to 1999, he was a visiting scholar at Griffith University and at the Australian National University. He is the editor in chief of the annual Blue Book of Oceania, which is the standard reference work for Chinese policymakers. His English publications include “Australia-China Economic Relations: a General Review” in Australia China at Forty (University of Sydney Press, 2012) and “The Dilemma of Interdependence, Current Features and Trends in Sino-Australian Relations” in the Australian Journal of International Affairs

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FEI Sheng is an associate professor at Department of History, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou. He graduated from Peking University( Beijing) and Australian National University( Canberra) and devotee to Australian Chinese history and Environmental history of Australasia.
He is now a core research fellow at Center for Oceania Studies, Sun Yat-sen University and works on reports for Oceania Blue Book yearly.

Hou Minyue （侯敏跃）

 Australian Studies Centre and School of Foreign Languages

East China Normal University

 

Professor Hou Minyue, a doctorial supervisor, is the Vice Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Deputy Director of Australian Studies Centre, at East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, China, and a 2007-08 US Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has earnestly devoted himself to English teaching and Australian studies in China especially in the area of bilateral relations between Canberra and Beijing for years, with noteworthy success. His monograph of A History of Sino-Australian Relations (1999) is the only book of its kind which has ever been published in China in the Chinese language. He is the author of the English book: The Impact of China’s Modernisation on Relations with Australia (2005), which was awarded Australia-China Council 2006 Certificate for an Outstanding Work by the Australia-China Council, which is sponsored and funded by the Australian government. His books entitled Sino-Australian Trade and Investment Relations in Energy and Mineral Resources Sectors and A Comparative Study on China’s Cooperation in Resources with Russia and Australia came out in 2014 and 2016 respectively. He is a co-editor of Cultural Pluralism and Civil Society in the Asia-Pacific Region in the Era of Globalisation (2004), Federalism and Regionalism of Transitional Countries (2010). He has also written extensively for many academic and professional journals at home and abroad, including Asian Journal of Political Science, The Journal of East Asian Affairs, Global Change Peace & Security, International Survey, World Economy Study, History Teaching and Research. He has been teaching ECNU undergraduates, MA and PhD candidates Australia-related subjects, including China-Australia relationship, and studies of Australian culture, history and society. He earned BA and MA at ECNU, and received his Ph.D. from La Trobe University, Melbourne.

LI Jianjun

Bio: Mr. LI Jianjun is Director of the Australian Studies Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Secretary-General of the Chinese Association for Australian Studies. He was a Visiting Scholar at Griffith University in 2002 and a Visiting Research Fellow at Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London in 2016. His publications include papers on Christina Stead and two edited books Australia Through the Eyes of the Chinese (2009) and Blue Book of Australia: Annual Report on Development of Australia (2015-2016). In 2015 he was awarded the inaugural Professor Hu Zhuanglin Distinguished Translator Fellowship hosted by the Australian Studies Centre at Peking University. He teaches Australian literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His current research is Australian literature in Chinese translation in the 1950s and 1960s.