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Dr Gloria Davies 黄乐嫣

Associate Professor

Gloria Davies conducts research across several areas: Chinese intellectual and literary history from the 1890s to the present; contemporary Chinese thought; comparative literature and critical theory; and studies of cultural flows in the digital age.

Trained in Sinology at the Australian National University, she read literary theory and modern Chinese literature as a graduate student at the University of Melbourne. She has extensive experience in developing inter-disciplinary and inter-Faculty collaborative projects. She is a member of the Literature Research Unit within the Faculty of Arts at Monash. She is an Adjunct Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World, based at the Australian National University.

Supervision

Completed MA Research Theses

1992, Wang Rongsheng, A Comparative Literary Study of the Fiction of Peter Carey and Liu Denghan (joint supervisor)
1993, Tanaka-Karlic, Etsuko, The Analysis of Literary Space in a Contemporary Japanese Literary Text, Kurai Tabi (Dark Journey) (associate supervisor)
1994, Duncan, Hazel Annette, Collision and Collusion: the Visual Media and Asia-Pacific Cultures (sole supervisor)
1995, Brown, Christine Jean, An Analysis of the Scholarship in Five Cross-Cultural Philosophic Comparisons between Derrida and Nagarjuna (sole supervisor)
1995, Eckfeld, Tonia, Buddhism and the Heterodoxy in the Kuan-yin Image (joint supervisor)
1995, McMahon, Christopher, Strange Tales of Women and Ghosts: the Inscription of Women's Bodies in a Cycle of Hong Kong (sole supervisor)
2010, Chi, Limin, Translation and Modernity in Late Qing and Early Republican China (1897-1932) (main supervisor)

Completed PhD Theses

1999, Micic, Peter, School Songs and Modernity in Late Qing and Early Republican China, Ph.D (sole supervisor)
1999, Urwin, Jianjun, Second Language Listening Task Complexity: the Effects of Prior Form and Content Knowledge on the Lecture Comprehension and Retention of Learners (associate supervisor)
2003, Huppatz, Daniel John, Hong Kong Design: Culture meets Commerce, (main supervisor)
2004, Duncan, Hazel Annette, Beyond Shadowplay: the Body and the Visual (sole supervisor)
2004, Harrison, Mark, Legitimising 'Taiwan': the Formation of a Taiwanese National Identity (joint supervisor)
2004, Sun, Ms Christine Yunn-yu, A Construction of 'Chinese' Cultural Identity: English-language Writing by Australian and Other Authors with Chinese Ancestry (main supervisor)
2008, Pang, Anne, Huang Nai Shang: A Chinese Christian Reformer in late Qing and early Republican China (main supervisor)
2010 Chen, Zhiqun, Compound Ideograph: A Contested Category in Studies of the Chinese Writing System (joint supervisor)
2011 Irving, Robert, Narrating New China: Chen Dengke and Liu Qing (joint supervisor)
2011 Wu, Guanjun, Spectres of the Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Discourse and Beyond (main supervisor)

Current MA Supervision Topics

A linguistic analysis of the Dao de jing(joint supervisor)

Current PhD Supervision Topics

An Internet-Mediated Political Public Sphere in China and South Korea main supervisor)
Framing the Korean 'Comfort Women' Movement: Domestic Constraints and Transnational Alignments (main supervisor)
Historiography and New Nationalism in China (main supervisor)
New Media and the Internet: Effects on the Creative Self-Expression and Consumption of Culture among Chinese Youth (main supervisor)
Representing more than memory: the visual legacy of the Pol Pot regime (main supervisor)
Savouring 'Oriental Beauty': Materiality, agency and the senses in Taiwanese tea culture (joint supervisor)
Translating the Modern from the Late Qing to the May Fourth era (main supervisor)

Publications

BOOKS

2008 with J. Vin d'Cruz and Nathan Hollier (eds.) Political Actors and Ideas in Contemporary Asia (Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing)
2007 Worrying about China : The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press)
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)

REFEREED AND INVITED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2011 "Certitude and Linguistic Play in Chinese Critical Inquiry," boundary 2, Vol.38 No.2 Summer 2011,125-153
2010 "Affirming the Human in China," boundary 2, Vol.37, No. 1 Spring 2010, 57-90
2009 (with Neilsen, Nyland, Smyth, Zhu) "The 'X Component' in Shanghai's Social Security Reforms," International Social Security Review, Vol.62 No.2, 35-60.
2008 (with Gaby Ramia, Chris Nyland) "Social Security Compliance in China: Regime-Types and National Circumstances," International Social Security Review, Vol. 61 No. 1, 1-22.
2008 (with Gaby Ramia) "Governance Reform Towards Serving Migrant Workers," China Quarterly, Vol.193, pp.140-149.
2008 "Moral Emotions and Chinese Thought" Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 2008): pp.221-244.
2007 "China's Reformists: From Liberalism to the Third Way," Global Dialogue, Vol.9, No.1-2, (Winter/Spring 2007), pp.39-49
2007 "Habermas in China: Theory as Catalyst," in China Journal No.57 (Jan 2007), pp. 61-85
2006 "Wang Hui: The Historian as Social Critic" in Overland No. 182, pp. 68-73
2004 "Liu Dong and his defence of theory and Confucianism as practice," in East Asian History, 25-26 (June/December 2003, published 2004), pp.183-190.
2002 "Anticipating Community, Producing Dissent: The Politics of Recent Chinese Intellectual Praxis," The China Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1-35.
2001 "Liang Qichao in Australia: A Soujourn of No Significance?" East Asian History, No.21, June 2001, pp. 65-111.
2000 "Theory, Professionalism and Chinese Studies," Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 12, No.1, Spring 2000, pp. 1-42.
1998 "Professing Postcoloniality: the perils of cultural legitimisation," Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, Vol.1, No.2, pp.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), pp.18-24
1993 "Valuing the Other: Institutional Investment in Asian Studies," Asian Studies Review, Vol.16, No.3, April 1993, pp.9-16
1992 "Towards Transcendental Knowledge: The Mapping of Modernity/Spirit in May Fourth Historiography," East Asian History, No.4, December 1992, pp.143-164
1992 "Chinese Literary Studies and Post-Structuralist Positions: What Next?" Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Vol.28, 1992, pp.1-19
1991 "The Problematic Modernity of Ah Q," Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Vol.13, 1991, pp.57-76

BOOK CHAPTERS

2010 (with M.E. Davies) "Jin Xing: China's Transsexual Star of Dance," Celebrity in China, Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys, eds. (University of Hong Kong Press, 2010), 169-191.
2010 (with M.E. Davies and Young-A Cho) "Hallyu ballyhoo and Harisu: Marketing and Representing the Transgendered in South Korea," Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia, Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein, Alison Tokita, eds. (Monash epress, 2010), 09.1-09.12
2008 (with Guanjun Wu) "Affirming Chinese Identity in a Language of Violence: Reflections on Writings by China's New Nationalists",Proceedings of the 17^th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, online publication http://arts.monash.edu.au/mai/asaa/davieswu.pdf
2008 (with Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth) "Correct Ideas: The Development of Shanghai's Town Insurance Scheme", in Nielsen and Smyth eds. Migration and Social Protection in China (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, March 2008)
2008 (with Scott Grant) "Righting Wrongs: The Language of Policy Reform and China's Migrant Workers" ((submitted, contracted for publication in Nielsen and Smyth eds. Migration and Social Protection in China (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, March 2008)
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, pp.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, pp.1-15

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2011 “Fragile Prosperity,” China Heritage Quarterly No. 22, June 2010, at: http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=026_davies.inc&issue=026
2010 "The Shanghai Haze", China Heritage Quarterly No. 22, June 2010, at: http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=022_luxun.inc&issue=022
2009 (with M.E. Davies) "Filmed Founding Myths," China Heritage Quarterly, No.20 (December 2009), at: http://chinaheritagequarterly.org/scholarship.php?searchterm=020_founding.inc&issue=020
2008 "Should we worry about Chinese patriotism?" Harvard University Press Author Forum (May 2008), at: http://harvardpress.typepad.com/off_the_page/gloria_davies/; a Chinese version was published on Xueshu Zhongguo (Intellectual China), available at: http://www.artsbj.com/Html/observe/zhpl/bjfx/wh/56793418001.html
2008 Bibliomania in Sino-Cyberspace," China Heritage Quarterly, No. 13 (March 2008), at:http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/articles.php?searchterm=013_virtual.inc&issue=013

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

2010 Cited in Kirsten Didi Tatlow, "In Search of a Modern Humanism in China", 13 May 2010, New York Times at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/world/asia/14iht-letter.html
2008 Cited in Goh Sui Noi, "China's Modernisation" Straits Times (3 July 2008) at: http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,10525,
2008 "Worrying about China" (in conversation with Alan Saunders), Philosophers' Zone, ABC Radio National, 23 August 2008)

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 with Li Kaiyu, 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 inEast 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, pp.183-203.

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), pp.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), pp.80-83

ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEWS

2010 Review of Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, Steven G. Yao, Sinographies: Writing China, Asian Studies Review (forthcoming).
2008 "Serious Fashion", Review of Antonia Finnane, Changing clothes in China : fashion, history, nation, Columbia University Press, 2008, in Australian Book Review (May 2008)
2006 Review of Zhang Longxi, Allegoresis, Religion and Literature No. 38.3 (Autumn 2006)
2004 Zhidong Hao, Intellectuals at a Crossroads: The Changing Politics of China’s Knowledge Workers (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003) in The China Review, Vol.4 No.2 at: http://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/ojs/index.php/ChinaReview/article/viewArticle/114/245
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, Vol.77 No.2 (Summer): 321-322; http://www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/pdfs/tocs/Volume77.pdf
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 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).

SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATIONS

National Grants

2009-11 Sole recipient ARC Discovery grant, Digital Dissent in Sino-Cyberspace
2005-7 Co-recipient (1 of 5 Chief Investigators) ARC Linkage grant: The Social and Business Implications of Extending China's Social Security System
2002-4 ARC Discovery grant, (with Geremie R. Barmé): Making a Spectacle of Disagreement: Media and Controversy in Modern Chinese Thought

State Grants

1994 Co-recipient of a CAUT grant: "An interactive Chinese language teaching methodology."
1990 Co-recipient of Victorian Education Foundation Grant for establishing a Business Chinese Communication Database

University Grants

2007 Co-recipient, Research Cluster project: The Future of Chinese Thought: Will Chinese Ideas become Globally Relevant in the twenty-first Century?
2005 Co-recipient, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements grant: 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: Global Markets, Human Mobility and Social Protection.
2002 Co-recipient, Faculty of Arts Research Strength Support Scheme grant: The Communicative Construction of Cultural Identity
2002 Co-recipient, Faculty of Arts Research Strength Support Scheme grant: Cultural Flows In and With Asia
2001 Sole recipient, Faculty of Arts Monash Small Grant: A Critical Analysis of Ccontemporary Chinese Intellectual Resistance to the Global Authority of Euro-American Knowledge Paradigms.
1998-9 Co-recipient of a Monash University research grant: Re-mapping Gender, Identity and the Asia-Pacific Region: Regional, Transational and Postcolonial perspectives.
1994 Sole investigator, small ARC grant: "The Influence of Theory on Modern Chinese Literature: A Critical Review of Interpretation and Institutional Practice."

INVITED CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

2010 "Lu Xun's Human Path," at Humanistic International: Humanism, China, Globalism (5-6 March 2010, Harvard University)
2010 "Homo Dissensum Significans: The Perils of Taking a Stand in China", at Chinese Elites and their Rivals: Past, Present and Future (19-20 July, 2010, University of Melbourne)
2010 "Ways of Being Human in Chinese" (in Chinese) 16 September 2010, at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Fudan University. http://en.ias.fudan.edu.cn/Newstexts.asp?ID=25
2010 "Perilous Passion: Lu Xun and his Critics", The Passion of Politics, (ANU China Institute, Canberra, December 7-9, 2009).
2009 "The Human as the Benevolent: Confucian Legacies and Intellectual Publicity in China", invited public lecture sponsored by the University of Tasmania (Hobart, 5 October 2009)
2009 "Certitude and Linguistic Play in Chinese Critical Inquiry," Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference (Chicago, 26-29 March 2009). This roundtable on Worrying about China was sponsored by the AAS China and Inner Asia Council.
2008 (with Guanjun Wu) "Affirming Chinese Identity in a Language of Violence: Reflections on Writings by China's New Nationalists," Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (Melbourne, 4-7 July 2008)
2008 (with Geremie R Barmé), "Of One Mind: Mao Zedong and Lu Xun" Key Thinkers Seminar Series (ANU, Canberra, 15April 2008)
2008 "Affirming the Human in China" Human Rights and China (Claremont McKenna College, 6-7 March 2008)
2007 "What Happens to Democracy when It Becomes Minzhu?," Critics, Sceptics and Enemies of Democracy (University of Sydney, 12 October 2007)
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)
2001 "Anticipating Community, Producing Dissent" at China's Intellectuals and Social Power in the 21^st 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
2000 "Liang Qichao in Australia" at the Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 1-2 July 2000
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.
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