Research
The current research profile for the Asian Studies Department
is rich and varied for both the Chinese and Japanese disciplines. The fields
of research being undertaken by the Chinese staff include: Modern Chinese
Literature, Confucianism and Intellectual History, the History of Shanghai,
the Qing dynasty court and theatre, Languages of medieval Central Asian and
Nestorian monuments in Quanzhou. The Japanese Studies staff are actively involved
in research on pure and applied linguistics in Japanese, Manga - Visual narrative
and social commentary, Japanese literature, ICT-failitated language teaching
and socio-legal studies of Japan.
Here is a listing of all the staff members from the Department of Asian Studies
and their individual reserach interests:
Dr Mio Bryce Head, Asian Studies
PhD Syd
Research interests:
Historical, socio-cultural and psychological issues depicted in literature. She is currently involved in interdisciplinary research into youth cultures, with particular focus on manga and anime, in conjunction with the English Department at Macquarie University.
|
Dr
Shirley Chan Lecturer, Chinese Studies
BA,
, M Ints, PhD Syd
Research interests:
Dr Chan has research interest in Chinese
philosophy, especially Confucianism, and early Chinese history.
Her current research is on the Confucian political thinking
in the newly excavated Guodian bamboo slips.
|
Ms Anita Chang Senior Lecturer; Chinese Studies
BA Natnl.Taiwan, MA ANU
Research interests:
I Current Research:
a) Interests are on Mass Media; social and cultural changes in China; also on contemporary Chinese Literature being adapted into film.
b) Adapting of Chinese Martial Arts novel in mass media
II Previous Research:
a) Modern Chinese Literature : MA thesis on "Qian Zhongzhu and His creative Writings"
b) Classical Chinese Literature: PhD thesis on "Li Ruzhen and His Flowers in the Mirror".
|
Prof Daniel Kane Head, Chinese Studies
BA Melb, MA ANU, PhD ANU
Research interests:
Prof Kane has broad interests in the field of Chinese Studies, including linguistics, politics, intellectual history and current affairs.
|
Mr
Edwin Lowe Associate Lecturer, Chinese
Studies
BSc,
, BA (Hons) Macq
Research interests:
Chinese strategic and defence studies.
Comparative cultural and philosophical approaches to warfare.
The evolution of conflict and warfare. Broad interest in comparative
cultural studies.
|
Ms
Helen Muir Associate
Lecturer, Japanese Studies
BA (Hon) Macquarie
University,
Diploma of Teaching Newcastle University
Research interests:
IT and internet based Japanese language teaching and inter-cultural
studies.
|
Mr Phillip Musgrave Tutor, Japanese Studies
MA Syd, Dip.Ed, Syd, BA ANU
Research interests:
Literary representations of Tokyo as an urban space, alienation, otherness
and intertextuality. Contemporary Japanese literature and theories of urban
spaces and places.
|
Ms
Kayo Nakazawa Associate
Lecturer, Japanese Studies
Dip. of Education
(English) Tsuda College, Japan, MA (Applied
Linguistics) Macquarie University
Research interests:
Second Language Acquisition, CALL
|
Mr
Takita Susumu Lecturer,
Japanese Studies
BA
Kyoto University, Japan, Dip. Ed ,Kyoto
University
Research interests:
Modern Japanese Social Thought, The Japan Korea Relationship,
Minority Issues in Modern Japan, Cultural Studies, Socio-Linguistics
|
Dr
Ye Xiaoqing Senior
Lecturer, Chinese Studies
PhD ANU
Research interests:
Ye Xiaoqing was a research fellow at the
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded a PhD from
the Australian National University in 1992. Her main research
fields are in Chinese history and the history of Chinese medicine.
She currently has an ARC large grant to do archival work on
the social status of Peking opera performers in the late Qing.
|
|
[Back to top]
Department of Asian Studies
Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
NSW 2109, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9850 7008 Fax: +61 2 9850 7046
Send comments to tina.kong@mq.edu.au
