Lucy Wei Li

澳大利亚 University of Tasmania Associate Lecturer in Chinese Global Cultures & Languages


Teaching Chinese/English as a foreign language Pragmatics, interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics Intercultural communication Technology enhanced language learning and translation studies Understanding how people do things with words, i.e., how people from different language and cultural backgrounds make speech acts such as requests, refusals, compliments and responses of compliments, how l...


PhD in Linguistics and Chinese Studies at the University of Queensland (UQ). Grad.Dip. (GDipACTI) University of Queensland, Australia. 2018 MA Title of Thesis: Indirectness of English Language. Shandong University. China. 2000 BA - Shandong Normal University. China. 1989


Various roles as a course coordinator and lecturer, research thesis supervisor, research assistant and student mentor at University of Queensland First manager of the Confucius Institute at UQ and a lecturer of English at Shandong University, China.


Chinese as a foreign language Translation and interpreting Chinese culture and society Chinese linguistics Supervision interests: Pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics Teaching Chinese or English as a foreign or second language Intercultural communication Technology enhanced language learning Linguistics and translation studies

Mark Harrison

澳大利亚 University of Tasmania Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies Asia Institute of Tasmania


Contemporary culture and politics in the Chinese-speaking world, using a distinctive theoretically-informed style and with a particular interest in Taiwan.


PhD in Chinese Studies at Monash University looking at Taiwan and its problems of identity MA in Social theory from Monash University Australia BA (Hons.) in Chinese from the University of Adelaide


2002 to 2008 - worked as Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, UK.

Kaz Ross

澳大利亚 University of Tasmania Lecturer and Coordinator Asian Studies Asia Institute of Tasmania


Contemporary Chinese art Food safety in China Chinese feminism How contemporary theory (particularly in the areas of postcolonial studies, feminist theory and psychoanalysis) can be brought to the area of China Studies Theorising population control in China


PhD at the University of Melbourne


Worked at the University of Melbourne, RMIT and Swinburne University, teaching in a range of subject areas including social and political theory, Chinese studies, Asian studies and media studies.

Taufiq Tanasaldy

澳大利亚 University of Tasmania Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies and Indonesian Asia Institute of Tasmania


Ethnicity, particularly in identity politics, conflicts, minority and marginalization and Chinese diaspora.


Taufiq has a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University Canberra. Korea University (MA, 1997) University of Indonesia (BA, 1995)


Worked at the University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy.


Indonesian politics Ethnic conflict Identity politics Minority Chinese diaspora

Yan Jun Isabel Wang

澳大利亚 University of Tasmania Lecturer and Coordinator, Chinese Global Cultures & Languages


Applied linguistics including language and culture Language use in the workplace ICT in language learning Culture and communication in tertiary education


PhD Education University of Tasmania Australia 2014 MEd (Hons) University of Tasmania Australia 2005 MEd University of Tasmania Australia 2004 BA Heilongjiang University China 1996 GradDip Harbin Teachers' Training College China 1995


Second/foreign language teaching and learning Teaching Chinese as a foreign/second language