Dr Gloria Davies 黄乐嫣
Associate Professor
Gloria Davies received her training in Sinology at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. She has published on a diverse range of historical, cultural and political issues in Chinese studies and has an abiding interest in the differences between Chinese and Western approaches to critical inquiry. Chinese intellectual history, modern Chinese literature and culture are the main areas of her research but she has also published and/or supervised graduate research projects on overseas Chinese history, migrant labour and social security in China as well as on issues of gender, globalization and development in Asia.
Gloria is currently completing a manuscript (with Geremie R. Barmé) on intellectual publicity and key intellectual debates in twentieth-century China and since. She is also conducting research on the impact of the Internet in fostering independent inquiry and intellectual dissent in China.
Gloria is the convenor of Chinese Studies at Monash. She also participates in the work of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash.
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Qualifications
B.A. Hons (Australian National University), Ph.D (University of Melbourne)
Contact details
| Room | S517, Menzies Building (Building 11), Clayton Campus |
| Phone | (03) 9905 2234 (international 61 3 9905 2234) |
| gloria.davies@arts.monash.edu.au | |
| Fax | (03) 9905 5437 (international: 61 3 9905 5437) |
| Mailing Address | Dr Gloria Davies School of Asian Languages and Studies PO Box 11A Monash University Australia 3800 |
Subjects Taught
Dr Davies’s teaching is mainly in honours and graduate supervision. At present, she lectures in:
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CHI2430/CHI3430 Understanding Modern China (Semester One only)
- CHI2440/CHI3440 Understanding Contemporary China (Semester Two only)
Both units are offered every year.
In 2009, she will also teach:
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)
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)
Current MA Supervision Topics
Translation and Modernity in Late Qing and Early Republican China (1897-1932) (joint supervisor)
Current PhD Supervision Topics
Representations of Patriotism in Chinese Children's Literature (main supervisor)
The Origins of Chinese Writing: Functional and Philological Approaches (associate supervisor)
Allegories of the Dragon in China (main supervisor)
Narrating New China: Chen Dengke and Liu Qing (main supervisor)
Huang Nai Shang: A Chinese Christian Reformer in late Qing and early Republican China (main supervisor)
Realism in Early Modern Japanese Art (main supervisor)
Spectres of the Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Discourse and Beyond (main supervisor)
New Media and the Internet: Effects on the Creative Self-Expression and Consumption of Culture among Chinese Youth (main supervisor)
Historiography and New Nationalism in China (main supervisor)
Research interests
Chinese intellectual history, contemporary Chinese thought, modern Chinese literature and culture, social protection in China, the politics of globalization in East Asia