The George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology is given annually at the Australian National University in honour of George Ernest Morrison. The Lectures, founded by the Chinese community in Australia "to honour for all time the great Australian who rendered valuable service to China" were also, in the words of Geremie Barmé "related to Chinese-Australian resistance to White Australia policy, reflecting also the alarm and outrage resulting from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931." [1] Several of the older lectures were reprinted in 1996 by East Asian History . [2]
Lecturers have included: [3]
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes.
Pierre Ryckmans, better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Australia from 1970. His work particularly focused on the politics and traditional culture of China, calligraphy, French and English literature, the commercialization of universities, and nautical fiction. Through the publication of his trilogy Les Habits neufs du président Mao (1971), Ombres chinoises (1974) and Images brisées (1976), he was one of the first intellectuals to denounce the Cultural Revolution in China and the idolizing of Mao in the West.
Charles Patrick Fitzgerald was a British historian and writer whose academic career occurred mostly in Australia. He was a professor of East Asian studies with particular focus on China.
George Ernest Morrison was an Australian journalist, political adviser to and representative of the government of the Republic of China during the First World War and owner of the then largest Asiatic library ever assembled.
Yelmek, also rendered Jelmek or Jelmik, is a language of the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family in West Papua.
The Indonesia Project is a center of research and graduate training on the Indonesian economy at the Australian National University (ANU). It is located in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, part of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra. It was established in 1965 with an initial grant from the Ford Foundation.
Geremie R. Barmé is an Australian sinologist and film-maker on modern and traditional China. He was formerly Director, Australian Centre on China in the World and Chair Professor of Chinese History at Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra.
Francis Robert Bongiorno, is an Australian historian, academic and author. He is a professor of history at the Australian National University, and was head of the university's history department from 2018 to 2020. Bongiorno is the President of the Australian Historical Association.
Sang Ye is the pen name of Shen Dajun, a Chinese journalist, oral historian, and collector. He is the author of two oral histories, Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China, and China Candid: The People on the People's Republic. Originally trained as an electrical engineer, following a short course at Beijing Normal University in 1978 he began working as a freelance journalist. Described as a "remarkably gifted interviewer" with a "wholly unexpected, free-and-easy style" by Studs Terkel, Sang Ye has been praised for providing a unique perspective on China in the Reform and Opening Up era, "[bringing] to light the way people make sense of the world through telling themselves stories about their personal journeys."
Professor Albert Richard ('Bertie') Davis (1924-1983) was born in Dorking and died in Sydney. The Chair of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney for over a quarter-century, he was a major figure in the development of Asian Studies in Australia.
Chen Chih-Mai (1908–1978) was a Republic of China diplomat who served as ambassador to several countries. After graduating from Tsinghua University in 1928, he pursued further studies in the United States, ultimately receiving a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1933. After returning to China, he taught at Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nankai University and several other universities. He served in the Ministry of Education and in the Executive Yuan during the war, and in 1944 was transferred to the Embassy of the Republic of China in the United States. In 1955, he became the ROC Ambassador to the Philippines followed by posts as Ambassador to Australia (1959–66) and Ambassador to New Zealand from 1961 to 1966 before becoming Ambassador to Japan (1966–69) and Ambassador to the Holy See (1969-1978) and Ambassador to Malta (1971-78). He wrote about Chinese art, culture, and politics, delivered the 20th George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology in 1960, and published in the Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia.
Lo Hui-min was a Chinese and Australian historian of the late Qing and Republican periods, best-known for his work on George Ernest Morrison and Ku Hung-ming.
Chen Wei-ping, also known as W.P. Chen or Wei-ping Chen, was a Chinese diplomat.
East Asian History is a biannual peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published by the Australian National University. It was established in 1970 as Papers on Far Eastern History, obtaining its current title in 1991. Published by ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, it was part of a growth in publication on Asian studies in Australia in the 1970s. Originally "founded as a forum for the publication of papers written by the faculty and students of Australian National University" affiliates of ANU continued to "represent the large majority of its contributors, although over the years there have been increasing contributions from scholars from other universities in Australia and abroad." Chinese History: A Manual included the journal as one of the main Western-language journals for research on Chinese history.
Harry Felix Simon was a sinologist at the University of Melbourne, where he taught for 27 years.
William George Goddard (1887–1986) was an Australian intellectual, broadcaster, and writer who "spent much of the 1950s and 1960s serving the Nationalist Chinese regime on Taiwan" and wrote books in support of the Chiang Kai-shek regime there. He had "a considerable influence on the ways in which Taiwan was thought about in many parts of the world" through his books, such as Formosa: A Study in Chinese History (1966) some of which were translated into Chinese and Spanish.
Tien Ju-K'ang was a Chinese anthropologist and historian, best known for his work on the Chinese of Sarawak. Other works concerned the history of Protestantism in China, medical anthropology and the Dai people.
Chan Hok-lam was a Hong Kong-born historian of China. His obituary in the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies considered that "his works have inescapably influenced the research of nearly all those after him who have entered into the uniquely challenging sub-discipline of middle-period Chinese studies." Focusing on the period from the 9th to the 15th centuries, he was the author of 19 volumes of history in English and Chinese, a major contributor to two other large collaborative works, and over a hundred essays and reviews in history journals.
John Stradbroke Gregory, known as Jack and generally publishing as J.S. Gregory, was an Australian professor of Chinese history noted for his biography on Chiang Kai-shek and British involvement in the Taiping Rebellion. Born in Melbourne, he taught at Melbourne High School from 1946 to 1950 and again in 1952 before pursuing a PhD at SOAS University of London. After beginning to teach at Melbourne University (1958–67) most of his professional life was spent at La Trobe University. He gave the 1984 Morrison Lecture on "The Chinese and their Revolutions" and contributed the George Ernest Morrison entry to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Charles Nelson Spinks (1906-1980) was an American scholar and collector of Japanese art and books, acquired during residence in Japan first as an English professor and editor of Japan News-week (1938-1941). He served in US Naval Intelligence 1942-46 and later at American embassies in Bangkok (1952–56), Jakarta, and Canberra. He later donated the bulk of his collections to American University though some items are also held in the Freer Gallery. He also published on Japanese culture and history as well as Thai ceramics and Khmer archaeology. He delivered the 1959 Morrison Lecture on Preah Vihear Temple.
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