Dr Gloria Davies: Publications, Grants and Conference Presentations
Current Projects
Books
2007 with J. Vin d’Cruz and Nathan Hollier (eds.) Political Actors and Ideas in Contemporary Asia (Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing, October release)
2008 (with Geremie R. Barmé) Spectacles of Disagreement: Media and Contestation in Modern Chinese Thought (completion by December 2007)
Book Chapters
“Craving Perfection: Chinese Thought and its Self-Oriented Trajectory”
(with ME Davies) “China’s Transsexual Star of Dance: Jin Xing”
Articles
“Theorizing in Contemporary Chinese Thought”
(with Guanjun Wu) “Affirming Chinese Identity in a Language of Violence: Reflections on Writings by China’s New Nationalists”
Completed Projects
Books
2007 Worrying about China : The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, Fall release)
2004 with Chris Nyland (eds.), Globalisation and the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences (Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward Elgar)
2001 (editor and translator), Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield)
Journal Articles
2007 (with Gaby Ramia) ““Governance Reform Towards Serving Migrant Workers,” China Quarterly, 2007)
2007 “Debating Reform in China” (Global Dialogue, Summer/Autumn issue)
2007 “Habermas in China: Theory as Catalyst,” in China Journal No.57 (Jan 2007), 61-85
2006 “Wang Hui: The Historian as Social Critic” in Overland No. 182, 68-73
2004 “Liu Dong and his defence of theory and Confucianism as practice,” in East Asian History, 25-26 (June/December 2003)ble issue, 183-190.
2002 “Anticipating Community, Producing Dissent: The Politics of Recent Chinese Intellectual Praxis,” The China Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1-35.
2001 “Liang Qichao in Australia: A Soujourn of No Significance?” East Asian History, No.21, June 2001, 65-111.
2000 “Theory, Professionalism and Chinese Studies,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 12, No.1, Spring 2000, 1-42.
1998 “Professing Postcoloniality: the perils of cultural legitimisation,” Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, Vol.1, No.2, 171-182
1998 “Towards a Reflective Critical Practice in Chinese Literary Studies: The Example of Wang Hui” The UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing, Vol. 4, No. 1, (May 1998), 18-24
1993 "Valuing the Other: Institutional Investment in Asian Studies," Asian Studies Review, Vol.16, No.3, April 1993, 9-16
1992 "Towards Transcendental Knowledge: The Mapping of Modernity/Spirit in May Fourth Historiography," East Asian History, No.4, December 1992, 143-164
1992 "Chinese Literary Studies and Post-Structuralist Positions: What Next?" Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Vol.28, 1992, 1-19
1991 "The Problematic Modernity of Ah Q," Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Vol.13, 1991, 57-76
Book Chapters
2005 (with Gaby Ramia and Chris Nyland), “Internal Migration and Social Security Compliance in China’, *Fully Refereed Paper*, /Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China: ABERU Conference Proceedings/, Melbourne, Monash University, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, 29-30 September, 2005.
2004 (with Chris Nyland), “An Introduction: Views of Globalization, Empire and Asia,” in Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland (eds), Globalisation and the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences, Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward Elgar, 1-16.
2004 (with Russell Smyth), “Globalisation, Late Industrialization and China’s Accession to the WTO: A Critical Perspective,” in Chris Nyland and Gloria Davies (eds), Globalisation and the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences. Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward Elgar, 185-213.
2004 (with Geremie R. Barmé), “Have We Been Noticed Yet? Intellectual Contestation and the Chinese Web,” in Merle Goldman and Edward X. Gu (eds), Chinese Intellectuals between the Market and the State. London: Routledge, 75-108.
2003 “Zhongguo zhishi jie: Gongtongti zuiqiude fenqi” [The Chinese intellectual world: dissent in the pursuit of community], translated by Wu Guanjun, in Xu Jilin ed. Gonggong xing yu gonggong zhishifenzi [Publicity and Public Intellectuals], Jiangsu People’s Press, 249-281.
2001 “Introduction,” in Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, 1-16.
2001 “The Self-Made Maps of Chinese Intellectuality,” in Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 17-46
1996 “Detours of Signs: Derrida and the Dao de jing" in Re-claiming Diversity: Essays on Comparative Literature, edited by Paolo Bartoloni, School of English, LaTrobe University, 1996, 51-71
1993 "Star Wars and the Confucian Ethic" in Modernization of the Chinese Past, edited by Mabel Lee and A.D. Syrokomla-Stefanowska, Wild Peony/School of Asian Studies Series No 1: University of Sydney, 1-15
Translations
2004 Liu Dong, “The Weberian View and Confucianism,” East Asian History, 25-26 (June/December 2003): 191-217.
2001 Liu Qingfeng, “The Topography of Intellectual Culture in 1990s Mainland China: A Survey,” Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, pp.47-70
2001 Yue Daiyun, “On Western Literary Theory in China,” translated by Gloria Davie,s in Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, pp.109-122
2001 Jin Guantao, “Interpreting Modern Chinese History through the Theory of Ultrastable Systems,” translated by Gloria Davies, in Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, pp.157-184
2001 Tang Yijie, “Some Reflections on New Confucianism in Mainland Chinese Culture of the 1990s,” translated by Gloria Davie,s in Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, pp.123-134
2001 Liu Dong, "Revisiting the Perils of Designer Pidgin Scholarship," translated by Gloria Davies (70%) with Li Kaiyu (30%), in Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, pp.87-108
2001 Wang Hui, "On Scientism and Social Theory in Modern China," translated by Gloria Davies, in Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, pp.135-156.
2000 Xu Jilin, “The Fate of an Enlightenment – Twenty Years in the Chinese Intellectual Sphere (1978-98)” translated with Geremie R. Barmé in East Asian History (No.20 December 2000), pp.169-186. Republished in Merle Goldman and Edward X. Gu (eds), Chinese Intellectuals between the Market and the State. London: Routledge, 2004).
Encyclopaedia Entries
2005 Entries on “academic e-journals”, “Gan Yang” and “Xu Jilin” in Edward Davis, ed., Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (RoutledgeCurzon).
1998 Entry on "Women's History, East Asian and South-East Asian" in The Encyclopaedia of Historiography, edited by D.R. Woolf (New York: Garland Press, 1998), 952-953
1998 Entry on "Chinese Religion," co-authored with Vivienne Wee, in The Encyclopaedia of the Chinese Overseas, edited by Lynn Pan (Singapore: Landmark Books, 1998), 80-83
Reviews
2006 Review of Zhang Longxi, Allegoresis, to be published in Religion and Literature No. 38.3 (Autumn 2006)
2004 Zhidong Hao, Intellectuals at a Crossroads: The Chnaging Politics of China’s Knowledge Workers (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003) in The China Review, pp.
2004 Xiaomei Chen, Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) in Pacific Asia Affairs, pp.
2002 Wen-Hsin Yeh, ed. Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness: Narratives, Images and Interpretations of the 1990s (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000), The China Journal, No.48, July, pp.243-246
2002 Jin Guantao and Liu Qingfeng, Zhongguo xiandai sixiang de qiyuan (The Origins of Modern Chinese Thought), (HK: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2000), The China Journal, No.47, January, pp.212-215
2000 “Talking Democracy with Wei Jingsheng,” Arena Magazine No.44, December 1999-January 2000, pp.9-10
2000 Lydia Liu, Translingual Pratice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity in China 1900-1937 (Stanford University Press, 1995), Passages: Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies, Vol.2, No.1, pp.112-115
1999 Jing Wang, High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics and Ideology in Deng’s China (University of California Press, 1996), The China Journal, No. 41, pp.209-211
1998 Review of Kam Louie and Louise Edwards, editors and translators, Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei (New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1996), Asian Studies Review, Vol.22, No. 2, pp.263-264
1997 "Mao More Than Ever", a review of Geremie R. Barmé, Shades of Mao: The posthumous cult of the great leader (New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1996), Art Asia Pacific, No.15, pp.94-95
1996 Review of Craig Calhoun, Neither Emperors nor Gods: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), Asian Studies Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, (July 1996), pp.184-186
1994 Review of Tonglin Lu, ed. Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-century Chinese Literature and Society, Australian Journal of Chinese Studies, No.32, July 1994, pp.216-217
1994 Review of Ding Xiaoqi, Maidenhome, translated by Chris Berry, Australian Women's Book Review, Vol 6.2, June 1994
1993 Review of Wendy Larson, Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer, Australian Journal of Chinese Studies, No.28, Jan 1993, pp.196-197
1993 Review of Michelle Yeh, Modern Chinese Poetry, Australian Journal of Chinese Studies, No.30, July 1993, pp.208-209
1993 Review of Fang Xiangshu and Trevor Hay, East Wind West Wind, Asian Studies Review, Vol.17, No.1, 1993, pp.193-195
1992 Review of The Serenity of Whiteness and Seven Chinese Women Writers, Australian Women's Book Review, Vol 4.2, May 1992
1991 Review of Joan Grant, Worm-Eaten Hinges, Australian Women's Book Review, Vol. 3.4, December 1991.
1991 Review of Helke Sander, The Three Women K, Australian Women's Book Review, Vol 3.3, July 1991
1991 Review of The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writings from Australia and New Zealand, Australian Women's Book Review, Vol 3.1, March 1991.
Review Articles
1994 Recent Publications on Chinese Poetry" Asian Studies Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, April 194, pp.195-200
1994 "Crossing Cultural Boundaries: The Elusive Globality of World Literatures in English" Asian Studies Review, Vol.18, No.2, December 1994, pp.160-170
1994 "Chinese Women on Chinese Women," Australian Women's Book Review, Vol. 6.1, March 1994, pp.28-29
1992 "Oriental/Asian Woman," Australian Women's Book Reviews, Vol. 4.3, September 1992, pp.15-16
Language Textbook
1992 (with Lin-nei Li and Zhao Xueru) Introducing Australia: Supplementary Chinese Readings for Intermediate Studies (Beijing: Beijing Languages Institute Press, 1992).
Other Articles
2000 “Talking Democracy with Wei Jingsheng,” Arena Magazine No.44, December 1999-January 2000, pp.9-10
1994 "Confucianism and the New East Asia" Trends (December 31, 1994), p.2
Successful Grant Applications
National Grants
2005-7 Co-recipient (1 of 5 Chief Investigators) ARC Linkage grant for The Social and Business Implications of Extending China's Social Security System
2002-4 Chief Investigator, ARC Discovery grant, (with Partner Investigator Geremie R. Barmé) for the project Making a Spectacle of Disagreement: Media and Controversy in Modern Chinese Thought
State Grants
1994 Co-recipient of a CAUT grant for the project “An interactive Chinese language teaching methodology.”
1990-1 Co-recipient (1 of 5 principal researchers at Victoria College) of a Victorian Education Foundation Grant for the purposes of establishing a Business Chinese Communication Database (33% of a 1992 textbook)
University Grants
2007 Co-recipient, Research Cluster project (with Hong, Sun, et al): The Future of Chinese Thought: Will Chinese Ideas become Globally Relevant in the twenty-first Century?
2005 Co-recipient (1 of 3 principal researchers) of a grant awarded by the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements for People Movement, Benefit Entitlement and the Creation of a ‘Unified Labour Market’in China
2005 Co-recipient, Research Cluster project (with Pavlyshyn et al): Cultural Borders and Bridges: Europe and Asia
2003-4 Co-recipient (1 of 14 principal researchers) of a major research grant awarded by the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements for Global Markets, Human Mobility and Social Protection.
2002 Co-recipient (1 of 7 principal researchers) of grant awarded under the Faculty of Arts Research Strength Support Scheme for the School-based project “The Communicative Construction of Cultural Identity”
2002 Co-recipient (1 of 3 principal researchers) of grant awarded under the Faculty of Arts Research Strength Support Scheme for the School-based project “Cultural Flows In and With Asia”
2001 Sole investigator, Faculty of Arts Monash Small Grant for the project “A Critical Analysis of Ccontemporary Chinese Intellectual Resistance to the Global Authority of Euro-American Knowledge Paradigms.” This project produced three outcomes.
1998-9 Co-recipient (1 of 9 principal researchers) of a SMURF grant for the project “Re-mapping Gender, Identity and the Asia-Pacific Region: Regional, Transational and Postcolonial perspectives.” This grant supported some of the research for Voicing Concerns, and organizational committee work on two conferences.
1994 Sole investigator, small ARC grant for the project “The Influence of Theory on Modern Chinese Literature: A Critical Review of Interpretation and Institutional Praxis.” (Two DEST C1 outcomes for 1998)
Conference Presentations
*invited presentations
2006 (with ME Davies, YoungA Cho), “Hallyu Ballyhoo and Harisu: Marketing and Representing Gender Variance in South Korea” at Media and Popular Cultural Flows in East Asia (Monash, Clayton, 6-7 August 2006)
2005 “What Price Deconstruction? Reflections on a certain Chinese intellectual resistance to the impossibility of closure” at Cultural Borders and Bridges: Europe and Asia (Monash, Clayton, 4-5 November 2005)
2005 (with Gaby Ramia, Chris Nyland) “Internal Migration and Social Security Compliance in China’, at Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China (Monash, Caulfield, September 2005)
*2004 “Coping with Theory: The Language of Critical Inquiry and China” at Knowledge, Culture, Power: the Politics of Cultural Studies in the Asian Region (ANU, Canberra, 22-24 October 2004)
2004 “Correct ideas and Social Practice” (with Ingrid Nielsen and Chris Nyland) at International Workshop on Social Protection in South Asia, China and Malaysia, Monash, Clayton, 10 June 2004)
2004 “Theory and its Catalytic Function in Chinese Discourse” at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference (San Diego March 2004)
*2001 “Anticipating Community, Producing Dissent” at China’s Intellectuals and Social Power in the 21st Century,Colorado College, 26-28 October 2001
2001 *“Have We Been Noticed Yet? Intellectual Contestation and the Chinese Web” (with Geremie Barmé) at Chinese Intellectuals between the State and the Market, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 30 June-2 July 2001
*2001 “Doing China: Representations of Nation and Nationalism” at Esthétique du Divers: International Conference on Comparative Literature, Peking University, 7-10 April 2001
*2000 “The Need For History: Contemporary Chinese Rituals of Intellectual Affirmation” at Reading and Society in the Chinese-Speaking World: Histories and Literatures, an international symposium, Australian National University, 2-3 December 2000
*2000 “Liang Qichao in Australia” at the Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 1-2 July 2000
1999 “The Distractions of Multicultural Flair: Elusive Political Constraints on Cultural Production in Singapore” at the international conference Re-imagining Multiculturalism Monash University, Melbourne, 4-6 October 1999.
*1996 “Western Truths, Chinese Patterns” at the international workshop Public Morality and Transcultural Interaction: Australia/Asia, organized by the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues, University of Melbourne, 12-13 July 1996.
*1996 “The Homelessness of Secular Theory” at the national one-day conference Postmodernity and the Public, organized by the School of English, LaTrobe University, 31 May 1996.
1995 “The Subject of Culture: Personality in Chinese Literary Discourse" was presented at the Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, Macquarie University, 5-7 July 1995
*1994 “The Chinese World and Chineseness” - invited seminar, Institute of South-East Asian Studies, Singapore, 14 December 1994
*1994 Discussant at the regional symposium Problematizing Culture: Media, Identity and the State in South-East Asia, held at the Institute of South-East Asian Studies, Singapore, 28-29 November 1994
*1994 “Chinese Culture and Postcolonial Identity” - invited seminar, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, 8 January 1994
*1993 “Postcoloniality and the Narration of Chinese Nationhood” - invited seminar, presented in Chinese, Centre for Comparative Literatures and Cultures, Peking University, 12 December 1993
*1993 "Reading Culture and Identity within the Post-Colonial Frame: An Interrogation of `The Chinese World'" was presented at the symposium on Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Chinese World, Australian National University, September 1993
1993 "Discourse, Protocol and the Law of the Father" was presented at the Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, Griffith University, July 1993
1992 "The Eloquent Self: Preoccupations with Authenticity" presented at the Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of New England, Armidale, July 1992