William Sima, a Faculty student, has won a place in ‘China Bridge’, a Chinese-language proficiency contest for foreign college students, and will be going to China (Changsha and Beijing) for the final from July 9 to August 7, 2009.
The Australian leg of the competition, held in Perth, was very tough. It included a written test [...]
Dr Greg Fealy, of the Faculty’s Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, writes (in the Inside Story blog):
A popular bumper sticker among Indonesian Islamic activists in recent years declares: “Islam is the solution.” For many of these activists, this slogan captured a mood of Islamic revival and confidence – a sense that Islam was reasserting [...]
At the most recent Australian Taekwondo selection trials held at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Master of Asia-Pacific Studies student Sunsanee McDonnell qualified to represent Australia at the 2009 World Cup Championships to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in June.
Taekwondo (literally, “art of the hand and foot”) is a Korean martial art that [...]
Professor Kent Anderson, Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, has been appointed to a reference group which will provide expert advice and high level strategic oversight of a new program called the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program (NALSSP).
$6.24 million has been allocated [...]
Dr Duck-Young Lee, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty’s Japan Centre, will take up an appointment as Visiting Fellow, funded by the Heiwa Nakajima Foundation Fellowship, at Yokohama National University in Japan from September 2009.
Dr Lee specialises in Japanese teaching methodology and linguistics.
During his visit he will be conducting research on spoken discourse in [...]
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