Our people

Director

Professor David S G Goodman

Professor of Chinese Politics
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

David Goodman is Emeritus Professor in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; Emeritus Professor in the Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, China; and Emeritus Professor in the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology, Sydney. During 2017-21 he was Vice President for Academic Affairs at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, where he had previously established the Department of China Studies. 2012-2016 he was a PRC Ministry of Education Distinguished Overseas Academic at Nanjing University in the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences. 2004-2009 he was DVC International at University of Technology, Sydney, where he had previously established the International Studies Program.

Deputy Directors

Professor Yingjie Guo

Professor of Chinese Studies
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities

Yingjie Guo is Professor of Chinese Studies. He received his BA and MA from Shanghai International Studies University, China and PhD from the University of Tasmania, Australia. Before joining the University of Sydney in 2014, he had taught at Shanghai International Studies University, the University of Tasmania, the University of New England, and the University of Technology, Sydney. His research focuses on cultural nationalism, cultural identities, and discourses of class in contemporary China.

Associate Professor Ying Zhang

MBBS, MMedSci, MSust, MEdu, PhD, ISEE Fellow
Associate Professor
Sydney School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health

Ying Zhang is a senior epidemiologist, a dedicated researcher and educator on climate change and global health. She has led national and international research projects in the field with over 130 publications. Ying's research aims to build community resilience to changing climate and environment, focusing on the most vulnerable populations in the Asia Pacific Region. Ying has been the Co-Director of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change in Australia since 2017, which produces annual reports to track progress on health and climate change in the country until 2030. Ying is the Founder and Co-Chair of the Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration, and Deputy Director of theHeat and Health Research Incubatorat the University of Sydney. Ying is keen on promoting research translation and policy advocacy to address health and climate change issues and is Chair of the Capacity Building Committee of the WHO Civil Society Working Group on Climate Change and Health. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships, such as the Australian Prime Minister Endeavor Fellowship and the Homeward Bound Fellowship, which included a three-week trip to Antarctica in 2019. Ying has demonstrated professional excellence and a significant level of experience in environmental epidemiology, which has been recognised by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) with an ISEE Fellow Award.

Associate Professor Josh Stenberg

PhD (Nanjing)
Associate Professor in Chinese Studies

Josh Stenberg is a senior lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published the monographs Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display (2019) and Liyuanxi: Chinese 'Pear Garden' Theatre (2022), as well as the edited volume Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance (2022). In addition to his research on Chinese theatre and literature, he has translated or edited several volumes of contemporary Chinese literature.

Advisory Board

Name	Position
(Chair) Mr Kevin Hobgood-Brown AM	Chair, Foundation for Australian Studies In China
Mr Dan Tebbutt	Austrade Sydney
Mr Robert Kok	Sydney City Council
Ms Glenda Korporaal	Associate Editor (Business)
Dr. Kate Smith	Environmental Engineer Aurecon
Mr George Su	CEO & Managing Director Richlink Capital
Ms Shirley Gao	Senior Associate BBI Group, Sydney, Australia
Ms Helen Zhi Dent	Partner China Business Practice, KPMG

Executive Committee

Name	Position	Portfolio
Professor Alison Betts	Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of the Archaeology and Mythology of the Ancient Near East Discipline of Archaeology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Individual projects
Dr Minglu Chen	Senior Lecturer Discipline of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Research presentation and events
Professor Hans Hendrischke	Professor of Chinese Business and Management The University of Sydney Business School	Outreach
Associate Professor Josh Stenberg	Senior Lecturer Discipline of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Doctoral Students
Professor Anthony Welch	Professor of Education, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Collaborative Projects
Professor Jun Huang	Professor, SOAR Fellowship School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Director of the Laboratory for Catalysis Engineering	Research and Outreach
Professor Budiman Minasny	Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling School of Life and Environmental Sciences	Research and Collaboration
Associate Professor Ying Zhang	Associate Professor Sydney School of Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health	Research and Outreach

Our Members

Name	Affiliation/ Faculty/ School	Research expertise keywords
Dr Irene (Shidong) An	FASS\|SLC	Computer Assisted Language Learning, Second language Acquisition, Second/Foreign Language Teaching Intercultural Communication
Professor Vivienne Bath	Law School \| Professor of Chinese	International Business Law; Chinese investment and corporate law; international investment law; China and private international law
Professor Alison Betts	FASS\| School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry	Northwest China, Prehistory, Bronze Age, Silk Roads
Dr David Brophy	FASS \|Department of History	Qing history, Xinjiang, Uyghur studies, Sino-Russian relations, Silk Road
Dr Alexander Burchmore	FASS \|Department of Art History	Materiality, Identity, Travel, Trade, Ceramics
Associate Professor Mark Byron	FASS \| Director of Research Development (Humanities)
Dr Junyi Cai	FASS \| Gender and Cultural Studies
Dr Chengqi Cao	FASS \| China Studies Centre	Compulsory Education, Welfare Policy, Social Welfare, Policymaking and implementation, Social Citizenship
Dr Minglu Chen	FASS \|SSPS \|Department of Government and International Relations	domestic politics, women in politics, local governance, private entrepreneurs
Associate Professor Lynne Chester	FASS School of Social and Political Sciences/Discipline of Political Economy	Energy, environment, heterodox economics, different forms of capitalism.
Professor Jocelyn Chey	FASS \|SLC	international relations; humour; Hong Kong; intellectual history; cultural relations
Dr Yeow-Tong Chia	FASS\|Sydney School of Education and Social Work
Associate Professor Boris Choy	Business School/Discipline of Business Analytics
Dr Susette Cooke	FASS \| SLC \| Discipline of Chinese Studies
Dr Anthony Cordingley	FASS \|Department of English	Literary modernism, translation, self-translation
Associate Professor Melody Ding	Faculty of Medicine and Health
A/Prof Timothy Dwyer	FASS \| Department of Media and Communications	Chinese media platforms, news media policy and regulation
Dr Allan Fu	Faculty of Health Science
Dr Beatriz Carrillo Garcia	FASS \|School of Social and Political Sciences
Dr Jimmy Xun Gong	CSC Hon Res Fellow - Gateway Business
Professor David Goodman	FASS \|School of Social and Political Sciences \|China Studies Centre	Class, local governance, provincial politics, history of CCP
Professor Yingjie Guo	FASS \|SLC\|Discipline of Chinese Studies	nationalism in contemporary China, Chinese cultural identities, Chinese cultural memories, discourses of class in the PRC, class and nation in the PRC
A/Prof Rachael Hains-Wesson	Business School	Work-Integrated Learning; teacher scholarship; employability; international education; mixed methods
Professor Jing Hang	CSC Hon Prof - Professor, Translation and Interpreting, School of Humanities & Communication Arts; Western Sydney University
Dr Sabrina Yuan Hao	FASS \|China Studies Centre	crime fiction, law and literature, comparative literature, translation and adaptation, post-colonialism and globalization
A/Professor Colin Hawes	Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney \|China Studies Centre	Chinese law and legal reform, Chinese corporations, corporate culture and ecosystems, Classical Chinese literature and culture
Dr Barbara Hendrischke	FASS \|China Studies Centre	Chinese intellectual history. Chinese religious history. Early Daoism.
Professor Hans Hendrischke	Business School
Professor Carol Hsu	Business School
A/Prof Jeanne Huang	Law School
Dr Eva Huang	Business School
Dr Catherine Ingram	Sydney Conservatorium
Dr Minerva Inwald	UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture, School of Humanities and Languages
Professor Alicia Jenkins	Faculty of Medicine and Health	diabetes, cardiovascular disease, medical education
Dr Kaiying Ji	Business School	financial reporting, forecasting, work-integrated learning
Dr Peter Jia	FASS \| Discipline of Chinese Studies
Dr Lauren Johnston	China Studies Centre \| School of Economics and Policy, University of Adelaide	Economy, Population Ageing, China-Global South, China/Africa, Belt and Road Initiative
Dr Lifeng Kang	School of Pharmacy
Associate Professor David Kim	FASS \| School of Economics
Dr Natalie Kohle	FASS
Professor Shuyu Kong	CSC Hon Prof - Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of Humanities; Co-director, David Lam Centre for International Communication; Simon Fraser University	Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies, literature and art in socialist China, Chinese artists in Europe in the early 20th century, and Sinophone literature and cinema.
Dr Chi Kin Law	Faculty of Medicine and Health\|NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
Dr Mabel Lee	FASS \| Discipline of Chinese Studies	history, literature, art, performance
Dr Yi Li	Business School	Chinese Multinational Enterprise, Institutional Perspective, Digitalization, Strategic Configuration, Top Management Team
Dr Wei Li	Business School
Professor Bingqin Li	UNSW \|Director of Chinese Social Policy Stream \|China Studies Centre
Dr Mengyu Li	School of Physics
Dr Tong Li	Faculty of Medicine and Health
Professor Bing Ling	Law School	Chinese law, international law, comparative law
Dr Lu Liu	Sydney Conservatorium	Global inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts, Australian-Chinese Music Studies, Cultural Diversity in Music Studies
Professor Duanfang Liu	Usyd\|School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP)
Associate Professor Sonia Liu	Faculty of Science \| School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Dr Yvonne Low	FASS \| Department of Art History
Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson	FASS \| Department of History
Professor Yixu Lu	FASS \|SLC
Professor Bonnie McDougall	FASS \| The Department of Chinese Studies
Professor Angelika Messner	CSC Hon Prof - Professor of Chinese Studies & Director of the Chinazentrum, Kiel University	History and Anthropology of Science and Medicine, Emotions & Care
Professor Budiman Minasny	Faculty of Science
Dr Sean Moores	FASS \|SLC
Professor Meaghan Morris	FASS \| Gender and Cultural Studies	Hong Kong action cinema, Inter-Asia cultural studies
Associate Professor Natalie Munro	Faculty of Medicine and Health\|Sydney School of Health Sciences
Dr Micheal Murphee	USYD Business School
Dr Xi Nan	Business School
Professor Susan Park	FASS \|SSPS \|GIA
Associate Professor Simon Poon	School of Computer Science
Dr Mark Post	FASS \|Discipline of Linguistics	Sino-Tibetan languages, minority languages of China, China-India border regions
Professor Elspeth Probyn	FASS \|Gender and Cultural Studies	oceans; aqua/geopolitics; fishing; food; climatechange
Dr Wuna Reilly	FASS \| China Studies Centre
A/Professor Jamie Reilly	FASS \|School of Social and Political Sciences \|Department of Government and International Relations	China's foreign policy; Chinese politics; international relations; development
Dr Andres Rodriguez	FASS \|Department of History
Dr Yu Shan	FASS\|SLC
Dr Joshua Stenberg	FASS \|SLC \|Discipline of Chinese Studies	theatre, literature, Southeast Asia, translation, Taiwan
Professor Wanning Sun	CSC Hon Prof - Professor of Media and Communication, School of Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Dr Simon Tan	Business School
Dr Beibei Tang	Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Dr Pao-chen Tang	USYD \| FIlm Studies	Chinese cinemas (of all regions and times); contemporary Chinese art; environmental humanities; animal studies
Professor Frederick Teiwes	FASS \|School of Social and Political Sciences \|Department of Government and International Relations	CCP elite politics, Dynamics of change in the Mao eraHua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, and the dismantling of Maoism
Professor Luigi Tomba	FASS \|China Studies Centre
Professor Ming-Chang Tsai	Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies; Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
A/Prof Linda Tsung	FASS \|Department of Chinese Studies
Dr Qiang Tu	Faculty of Medicine and Health
A/Prof Wei Wang	FASS \|Department of Chinese Studies	language and society, translation studies, language education, ethnic studies
Professor Anthony Welch	FASS \| Sydney School of Education and Social Work	Higher Education. Universities. Internationalisation. World Class. Science and Technology.
Dr Joel Wing-lun	CSC Hon Res Fellow - UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture, School of Humanities and Languages
Associate Professor Anita Wong	Faculty of Medicine & Health	language development and disorders in Chinese children, language therapy for Chinese children; parent education on supporting the development of Chinese as the home language
Dr Vycke Wu	Business School	Behavioural Finance, Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure
Dr Jinqi Xu	the Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education)
Dr Ye Xue	University of Alberta
Dr Gracy Yang	Business School	Corruption, firm bribery, global strategy, emerging market firms, temporal orientation
Dr Hongzhi Yang	FASS\| Sydney School of Education and Social Work
Dr Zhimin Yang	Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics
Dr Jingjing You	Faculty of Medicine and Health	Cell biology, molecular biology, biomanufacturing, and engineering
Dr Tao Yu	The University of Western Australia (UWA)
A/Professor Jingdong Yuan	FASS \|School of Social and Political Sciences \|Department of Government and International Relations	Chinese security policy; Indo-Pacific security; nuclear arms control; US Asia policy; China-India relations
A/Prof Ying Zhang	Faculty of Medicine and Health	climate change, global health, sustainability, epidemiology
Dr Eagle Zhang	Business School	Financial Reporting in China; Government accounting in China; Chinese accounting history.
Dr Huan Zhang	Business School
Dr Lansheng Zhang	FASS \|China Studies Centre	art, design, history, museology, visual culture
Dr Ling Zhang	Sydney Nursing School, Faculty of Medicine and Health and CPC	cardiovascular disease, prevention, health literacy, digital health, cultural and linguistic diverse
Professor Peng Zhang	Science / Life and Environmental Sciences / Plant Breeding Institute
A/Prof Xiaohuan Zhao	FASS \|Department of Chinese Studies	art and archaeology; ritual and religion; Chinese literature; Chinese theatre history; Chinese folk and temple theatre
Associate Professor Yi Zheng	University of New South Wales \|China Studies Centre	modern Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese culture and society, historical aestheticism,

Research Group Leads

Local Governance in the PRC
Research Lead: Minglu Chen, Discipline of Government and International Relations

Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Research lead: Yingjie Guo, Discipline of Chinese Studies, School of Languages and Cultures

Digital Economy
Research Lead : Hans Hendrischke, Business School, International Business Discipline

Education
Research Lead: Wei Li, The University of Sydney Business School

Environmental Sustainability

Research Lead: Susan Park, Dicipline of Government and International Relations

Health

Research Lead: Ling Zhang, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Australia-China Relations

Research Lead: Rachael Hains-Wesson, The University of Sydney Business School

Social Change

Research Lead: Allison Betts, Dicipline of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Director, Local China Project

Dr Minglu Chen

Discipline of Government and International Relations