Department of International Studies - Asian Studies
Research
The current research profile for Asian Studies 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 Asian Studies and their individual research interests:
Dr Mio Bryce
Head, Japanese 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.
Ms Christie Barber
Associate Lecturer, Japanese Studies
BA (Hons) Macq
Research interests:
- Representation of gender and identity in Japanese popular media, with particular focus on manga and anime
- Youth culture, and youth issues, in Japan
- Translation of popular media
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:
- Interests are on Mass Media; social and cultural changes in China; also on contemporary Chinese Literature being adapted into film.
- Adapting of Chinese Martial Arts novel in mass media
- Modern Chinese Literature : MA thesis on "Qian Zhongzhu and His creative Writings"
- 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.
Ms Tomoko Koyama
Lecturer, Japanese Studies
Research interests:
Tomoko's areas of interest and expertise include language maintenance program for background speakers/overseas returnees, reading mechanism from psycholinguistic perspective and intercultural pragmatics. She is also an author of Handbook in cross-cultural Communication: Japan.
Dr Sung-Ae Lee
Associate Lecturer, Japanese Studies
Research interests:
Asian cinema, Colonisation in Asia, Trauma Studies, Korean fiction and film depicting the Korean War and its aftermath, the fiction, poetry, life-writing and popular media of the Korean diaspora.
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 Kayo Nakazawa
Associate Lecturer, Japanese Studies
Dip. Ed (English) Tsuda College, Japan, MA (App. Ling.) Macq
Research interests:
Second Language Acquisition, CALL
Mr Hiroshi Suzuki
Associate Lecturer, Japanese Studies
Research interests:
Dr Chavalin Svetanant
Lecturer, Japanese Studies
Research interests:
Japanese linguistics, Cross-cultural Communication, Sociology of Mass Media and Pop Culture, with particular interests on language, thought, and social behaviors in comparative cultural and historical context.
Dr Kimiko Tsukada
Lecturer, Japanese Studies
Research interests:
Experimental/acoustic phonetics ; Cross-language speech production/perception; Japanese phonetics
Dr Hui Ling Xu
Senior Lecturer, Chinese Studies
BA, Dip Ed. M A, PhD
Research interests
Hui ling's research interests include second language acquisition, Chinese linguistics, linguistic typology, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, technology and language education, bilingualism.