Academic Staff
Acting Chair of Department
- Dr Yiyan Wang
Room 648 Brennan MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 4512
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching interests
- Modern Chinese literature and culture
- Critical theory and cultural studies
Dr Wang is the author of Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World(2006).
Academic Staff
- Dr David Bray (Chair of Department - on leave Semester 2 2008)
Room 639 Brennan/MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 2868
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching Interests:
- The political and social organisation of modern/contemporary China
- Chinese urban planning and architecture
- Social and political theory and its application to the study of China
Dr Bray is the author of Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The Danwei System from Origins to Reform (2005).
- Professor Helen Dunstan
Room 638 Brennan MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 5516
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching Interests:
- Premodern Chinese economic thought and "statecraft"
- Ming and Qing history, especially political processes, economic policy and fiscal history before 1800
- East Asian gender history; Chinese environmental history
Professor Dunstan is the author of Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840 (1996) and State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China (2006).
- Dr Derek Herforth
Room 642 Brennan/MacCallum Building A18
Phone: +61 2 9351 3555
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319
Research and teaching interests
- Early Chinese language and thought
- Early Chinese historiography
- Chinese narrative and argumentation from the pre-Qin period to the Tang
