Postgraduate Studies in Asian Studies
The Centre for Asian Studies offers two research degrees:
- the MA degree in which students are expected to make a significant contribution to knowledge, and
- the PhD degree in which students are expected to make an original contribution to knowledge
Both degrees require a specific program of research under appropriate supervision. Masters degrees take two years full-time and PhD degrees take up to four years full-time. Both degrees are the final stage of training for professional practice of the discipline in academic and/or public and private life.
Supervision in a range of discipline areas from Asian politics, international affairs, society, history and religion to language and literature is available within the Centre (see staff profile).
A limited number of scholarships, although highly competitive, are available to both Australian and overseas applicants. The Centre provides adequate office space and access to computer terminals and meets limited costs associated with photocopying, conferences and field research.
- Master of Arts (Translation & Transcultural Communication)
- Current Candidate List
- Theses Completed
- Contact
Master of Arts (Translation & Transcultural Communication)
The Master of Arts (Translation & Transcultural Communication) program aims to develop the communication competence and research skills of Chinese-speaking students. The inter-disciplinary, language-rich and research rigorous curriculum provides students the opportunity to acquire knowledge in cross-cultural communication and understanding and, gain practical skills in translation, while also undertaking intensive research training at a leading Australian university.
Why study Translation and Transcultural Communication?
This specialist program is the first of its kind in Australia. It is unique in its holistic approach providing a range of courses that focus on developing students' ability to communicate in an increasingly globalised world. Courses include advanced translation between English and Chinese, professional English, and intensive research training.
The knowledge and skills acquired through the program prepare employable graduates who are equipped to work within and beyond China. Additionally, the substantial research component of the program makes it possible for aspiring graduates without an Honours qualification from an Australian university to undertake PhD study. The program therefore also provides a career pathway that enables the pursuit of research careers globally.
Who should study Translation and Transcultural Communication?
Designed specifically for international students with Chinese language proficiency. Additionally applicants require a general tertiary degree with an aptitude for transcultural study. Admission to the program is based on academic merit. English is the language of instruction at the university of Adelaide, and proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and listening in English is essential. Applicants will need to provide evidence of English competency: the minimum required score for this program is an overall score of 6.5 in the IELTS.
How can I study?
This program is offered on campus with admissions accepted in both semester one and two.
Career Pathways
In the past ten years the global market has seen increased demand for Chinese-speaking transcultural and transnational professionals. The program complements this demand by giving students added knowledge and learning so they are able to be employed within and beyond China with transcultural communication skills.
When coupled with specialisations in other disciplines such as business, commerce, or engineering, students further increase their employability and working opportunities. University of Adelaide graduates are prepared to make a difference in their local and global communities.
Furhter Information
You can download a PDF of the informational flyer here. In addition, information about the program and its structure can be found here.
Current candidate list.
| Higher Degree Research Students in Asian Studies 2011 | |||
| Name | Research Topic | Supervisors | |
| 1 | Steven Attwood | The Herbivorous Male and Cultural Creatives in Japan (Mphil) | Shoko Yoneyama |
| Gerry Groot | |||
| 2 | Xiuming Chen | Teaching Chinese Literature while Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Langauge | Songping Jin |
| Ning Zhang | |||
| 3 | Philip Eate | A Comparative Study of Japanese and Non-Japanese Online Pilgrimage Diaries | Shoko Yoneyama |
| Gerry Groot | |||
| 4 | Shurong Han | Social Security for Migrant Workers in China | Mobo Gao |
| Sejin Pak | |||
| Delia Lin | |||
| 5 | Roger Irvine | Forecasting China's Future | Gerry Groot |
| Purnendra Jain | |||
| Czeslaw Tubilewicz | |||
| 6 | Yang Li | China's Free Trade Agreements | Gerry Groot |
| Purnendra Jain | |||
| Mobo Gao | |||
| 7 | Fande Liu | Academic Plagiarism in China | Sejin Pak |
| Mobo Gao | |||
| 8 | Samuel Lymn | Immigration Matters: Australia and Japan Compared | Sejin Pak |
| Greg McCarthy | |||
| 9 | Yueyan Mao | Transcultural Feminist Writing in Contemporary China | Xianlin Song |
| Kathryn Schaffer | |||
| 10 | Alan Polson | Psychology of Confucianism | Songping Jin |
| Delia Lin | |||
| 11 | Roslyn (Joy) Ricci | Biography of Lin Yutang | Gerry Groot |
| Songping Jin | |||
| 12 | Baohui Xie | Media Transparency in China | Mobo Gao |
| Gerry Groot | |||
| 13 | Min Zhao | A Comparative Study of Civil Organisations in China and Australia | Greg McCarthy |
| Gerry Groot | |||
| John Spoehr | |||
| PhD Theses Completed in 2010-2011 in Asian Studies | |||
| Year | Name | Thesis title | Supervisors |
| 2011 | Glen Stafford | The unexpected transformations of Chinese international students in Australia | Shoko Yoneyama |
| Gerry Groot | |||
| Margie Ripper | |||
| 2010 | (Nganying) Serina Chan | A critical examination of Du Weiming’s interpretation of Zhongyong | Xianlin Song |
| Awarded the 2011 University Doctoral Research Medal | John Makeham | ||
| 2010 | Midori Kagawa-Fox | The ethics of Japan’s global environmental policy | Purnendra Jain |
| Tim Doyle | |||
| 2010 | Joel Rathus | Japan’s response to the rise of China: implications for regional institutions | Purnendra Jain |
| Gerry Groot | |||
| 2010 | Ming Ting | Singapore’s foreign policy: beyond realism | Purnendra Jain |
| Filix Patrikeeff |
Theses Completed
| 2011 | PhD | Glen Stafford | The unexpected transformations of Chinese international students in Australia |
| 2010 | Ph.D. | Joel Rathus | Japan’s response to the rise of China: implications for regional institutions |
| 2010 | Ph.D. | (Nganying) Serina Chan | A critical examination of Du Weiming’s interpretation of Zhongyong Awarded the 2011 University Doctoral Research Medal |
| 2010 | Ph.D. | Midori Kagawa-Fox | The ethics of Japan’s global environmental policy |
| 2010 | Ph.D. | Ming Ting | Singapore’s foreign policy: beyond realism |
| 2010 | Honours | Steven Attwood | The Herbivorous Male and the Cultural Creatives |
| 2010 | Honours | Sam Lymn | Disability in Japan: A State of "Independent Dependence" |
| 2010 | Honours | Campbell Massie | Compromise in Chinese Territorial Disputes |
| 2010 | Honours | Sharon I Traucki | A new path for Japan:Hatoyama, the DPJ and the U.S.-Japan security relationship since 9/11 |
| 2009 | Master | Heather Langford | The Textiles of the Han Dynasty and their Relationship with Society |
| 2009 | Honours | Ryan Cortazzo | Acceptance or Extinction: Foreign workers in an ageing Japan and the impacts of multiculturalism on contemporary Japanese society |
| 2008 | Honours | James Booker | Bosozoku: Deviance in Post-Industrial Japan |
| 2008 | Honours | Gesar Temur | The Dharma Diaspora |
| 2008 | Honours | So Fei Wong | Reframing Futoko School Non-Attendance) in Japan - A Social Movement perspective |
| 2007 | PhD | Ming LU | Road to Prosperity; the Role of Ethnic Teochew Chinese in China's Economic Development, 1978-2003 |
| 2007 | Honours | Anna P. Smith | The Rise of Migrant Criminality in China: The Impact of Government Policy and an Emerging Urban Underclass |
| 2007 | Honours | Kerryn Schultz | Unchanging Tradition Representations of Rural Chinese Women |
| 2006 | PhD | Tomoko Hidaka | Corporate Warriors or Company Animal?: An investigation of dominant Japanese salaryman masculinities across three generations |
| 2006 | MA | Roslyn Joy Ricci | Changing Approaches to Interpretation: Twentieth Century Re-Creations of Classical Chinese Poetry |
| 2006 | Honours | Belinda Dello-Iacovo | Suzhi Yaoyu and Curriculum Reform: A Chinese Education Experiment Bound to Fail |
| 2006 | Honours | Guglielmo Plain | Japan's Political Relationship with China During the Koizumi Period |
| 2006 | Honours | Rachel E Nitschke | Japan's Peace Movement: Challenges & Opportunities |
| 2006 | Honours | Paul Dimitriadis | Lost in Translation: Nicolas Baker & the Electronic Recording of Interrogations in Japan |
| 2005 | MA | Shoo Lin Siah | Racing to the Bottom of Winners All Round?: Southeast Asia's Economic Development in the 1990s |
| 2005 | Honours | Yuan Cai | The Rise and Decline of the Japanese Pacifism |
| 2005 | Honours | Alison Rawling | Environmentally Sustainable Development or Vibrant Civil Society? Mimizu-no-kai: A Citizen Action Group in Saigawa Town Rural Kyushu |
| 2005 | Honours | Yan Guo | A Deep Sigh: The Absurd Life of Modern Women |
| 2005 | Honours | Heather Langford | History of Ancient Chinese Textiles |
| 2004 | Honours | Kylie-Ree Dean | Chinese Manifestations of Progress: An Analysis of Governmental Discourse Behind the 2008 Beijing Olympics |
| 2004 | Honours | Mei French | Pragmatic Transfer in Second Language Thanks and Apologies - A Study of Australian English and Japanese |
| 2004 | Honours | Vicky Sanders | Evolution of the Japanese Forestry Crisis (1945-2004) and the Search for a Future |
| 2003 | PhD | Michelle C Renshaw | Accommodating the Chinese: The American Hospital in China, 1880 - 1920 |
| 2003 | Honours | Karen M Stanton | "They just want to kill you off" Legal Limitations and the Potential for Freer Speech in Singapore |
| 2003 | Honours | Mark Atkinson | Tanaka Yasuo and the Non Party Affiliated Governors of Japan |
| 2003 | Honours | Nancy Hong Ting | The Chinese Script Reform |
| 2003 | Honours | Kimberley Larsen | English Crazy: Popularity of English Versus Resistance in Modern China |
| 2003 | Honours | Michael Thmas Paes | An Examination of Confucianism in Contemporary Human Rights Discourse Regarding China |
| 2003 | Honours | Wen Hui Lin | Schools in Taiwan: A Critical Analysis with Reference to the Practice of Physical Punishment |
| 2003 | Honours | Caroline Whittaker | Sex, Consumerism and Self-Identity: Representations of Young Urban Women in Market Reform China |
| 2002 | PhD | Joseph Askew | The Status of Tibet in the Diplomacy of China, Britain, The United States and India, 1911 - 1959 |
| 2002 | Honours | Andrew Hunter | Australia and Japan: from protagonists of regional institutionalism to outsiders |
| 2002 | Honours | Lachlan J. Pender | The United States’ Asia Pacific Alliances: A revision to meet Twenty-first Century Security Threats |
| 2002 | Honours | Phuong My Nguyen | The role of Sino-Vietnamese elements in the formation of Vietnamese computer terminology |
| 2002 | Honours | Ashley Cook | Australia’s Foreign Aid Policy in the Post-Cold War Period |
| 2002 | Honours | Chad St Vincent | ‘Parasite Single’ Women of Japan: ‘Parasite’ or Search for a New Identity |
| 2002 | Honours | Naho Shimada | ‘Zest for living’ (ikiru chikara) in Japanese Schools: Critical Analysis of the Key Concept Underlying the Education Reform 2002 |
| 2002 | Honours | Sri Mulyati Hunter | The “Changing Dimensions” of the Australian-Indonesia Bilateral Relationship from 1996 to October 2002 in the Defence and Security Context |
| 2002 | Honours | Tomoko Hidaka | International Students from Japan In Higher Education in South Australia |
| 2001 | Honours | Kelly Layton | Punks in Beijing: Practices of Consumption, Parody and Ambiguity in Contemporary China |
| 2001 | Honours | Kathleen Bowen | The Evolution of the Discourse on the Ideal Gender Roles in Japan: A Historical Examination |
| 2001 | Honours | Merek Sinclair | ENJOKOSAI: ‘Paid Dating’ in Japan |
| 2001 | Honours | Hamish Maynard Stokes | FOOD SECURITY DEBATE: Limited logic and partial truths |
| 2001 | Honours | Mack Wilson | Japanese Schools in the Australian Mirror: Perceptions of Schools amongst Japanese Students in South Australia |
| 2001 | Honours | Roslyn Joy Ricci | Romancing the Chinese Characters: Ezra Pound’s Perception of Chinese Characters and it’s Effect on His Translation and Poetry |
| 2001 | Honours | Shoo Lin Siah | Comparative Study of the Nature of Corruption in Japan and Malaysia |
| 2001 | Honours | So Fei Wong | Analysis of Teacher’s Discourse on Ijime |
| 2001 | Honours | Lee Murphy | The Japanese Self-Defence Force: A Force in Transition 1990-2001 |
| 2000 | Honours | Long Dinh | Household Responsibility System in China and Vietnam: A Comparison |
| 2000 | PhD | Donna Maree Brunero | Through Turbulent Waters Foreign Administration of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service 1923-1937 |
| 2000 | Honours | Serina Chan | A critical Examination of Du Weiming’s Interpretation of Zhongyong |
| 1999 | Honours | Erica Cartledge | Liberalisation of the Australian-Japan Beef Trade. It’s Effects on Family Beef Producers in Australia and Japan. |
| 1999 | Honours | Allen Glen Stafford | China’s Village Elections: Unintended Democracy |
| 1998 | PhD | Shiming Yuan | Economic Policy Changes and Their Effects on the Urban Housing Situation: The Case of China (1948-1997) |
| 1998 | Master | Daniel George Skinner | A Sudden Blaze of Light: Low Intensity Democracy in Hong Kong, 1978-1997 |
| 1998 | Honours | Michelle Renshaw | The Nineteenth Century Hospital: Europe’s Gateway to Death - China’s Safe Haven? |
| 1998 | Honours | Kirsty Lanson | Passive Minds or Critical Thinking History Education in Germany and Japan as Reflected in Current Textbooks |
| 1998 | Honours | Lu Ming | The Role of the Overseas Chinese in Chin’s Economic Development 1978-1997 |
| 1998 | Honours | Yuki Shimada | Japan’s Role in United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in the 1990s: A Step Toward an Evolution of Japan’s Foreign Policy? |
| 1998 | Honours | Kirsty Munro | Regulatory Reform in the Japanese Economy: The Case Study of the Liquor Industry and the Implications for Australian Exporters |
| 1997 | PhD | Gerry Groot | Managing Transitions: The Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work, Minor Parties and Groups, Hegemony and Corporatism |
| 1997 | Masters | Masaki Minami | The Role and Policy of the South Australian Government in the Development of Economic Ties with Asian Nations |
| 1997 | Honours | Yok Yee Chan | The Chinese State-Owned Enterprises: Sources of Inefficiency and the Significance of Property Rights Reform |
| 1997 | Honours | Jacqueline Beaton | The International Emergence of Japanese NGOs |
| 1995? | Graduate Diploma | Kwai Lin Chian | China’s Economic Development and Trade Relations with Australia Since 1978 |
| 1995 | Honours | Ainsley Painter | From Caramel Factory to Charity Ward: Aspects of Women’s Fiction in the Japanese Proletarian Literary Movement |
| 1995 | Honours | Bridget Waters | Inciting Change: Poetic Reformers |
| 1995 | Honours | Anne Elizabeth Phillips | Kabuki Scholarship and Narrative History: Do the Origins Justify the Means? |
| 1995 | Honours | Martin Denton | Employee Corporatism Ownership: Control and Ideological Constructions of the Japanese Firm |
| 1995 | Graduate Diploma | Kwai Lin Chian | China’s Economic Development and Trade Relations with Australia Since 1978 |
| 1995 | Graduate Diploma | Lee, Wai Yin Virginia | Hong Kong’s Re-unification with Chian—A High Degree of Autonomy? |
| 1995 | Graduate Diploma | Keith Davies | Banking Reform in China |
| 1995 | Graduate Diploma | Michelle Renshaw | The Yin and Yang of Science China and the Scientific Attitude |
| 1994 | PhD | Hong Yang | Grain Production in China Productivity Changes and Provincial Disparities 1978-1990 |
| 1994 | Honours | Michael Keane | Who is Wang Qiming? Recognition and Identification in Chinese Television Drama |
| 1994 | Honours | Angela Datsopoulos | Women and Marriage: A Particular Form of Labour Contract in Japan |
| 1994 | Honours | Susan F Gelade | The Iwakura Mission 1872: Representation & Construction |
| 1994 | Honours | Catherine Steer | The Transmission of Traditional Zheng Music by Cho Chun-Pang in Adelaide |
| 1994 | Honours | Jacqueline Lim | Reform, Employment and the Discourse of Sexual Difference in Urban China |
| 1993 | Honours | Andrew Scott Beveridge | Redefining the Peasant Past: Historiography on Tokugawa Japan |
| 1993 | PhD | Tamara Jacka | The Impact of Reform on Women’s Work and Gender Divisions of Labour in Rural China, 1978—1993 |
| 1993 | Honours | Cindy M. Taylor | Naturalism: Its Development and Subsequent Decline in Chinese and Japanese Literature |
| 1993 | Honours | David Stokes | A Translation of Chen Yuanbin’s “The Wan Family Goes to Court” |
| 1993 | Honours | Laura Premrl | FIVE GIRLS AND A ROPE interpreted in the light of feminism delayed in rural China |
| 1993 | Honours | Neil McGrory | Uchida Ryohei and the Pan-Asian Dream: Representations and Realities |
| 1993 | Honours | Helen Kavanagh | Power Plays: Variations on a Theme in Taisho Anarchist Writings |
| 1993 | Honours | Anthony Blencowe | Li Zehou, Confucius, and Continuity with the Past in Contemporary China |
| 1992 | Honours | Penelope Howarth | Eastern Multinationals Through Western Eyes An Application of Dunning’s Eclectic Theory to Japanese Automobile Production Subsidiaries in the European Community |
| 1992 | Honours | Marielle Kossen | The Liberalisation of the Japanese Rice Market |
| 2002 | Honours | Anna Lucille Ford Montgomery | Legalism and Current Chinese Attitudes to the Law |
| 1992 | Honours | Joanna Nursey-Bray | Good Wives and Wise Mothers' Women and Corporate Culture in Japan |
| 1992 | Honours | Lisa Pola | Housing Reform in China |
| 1991 | PhD | Susan Young | Private Business and Economic Reform in China in the 1980s |
| 1991 | Honours | Elaine Jeffreys | Jiang Qing: Under Western Eyes |
| 1991 | Honours | Wendy Shore | The Debate on Foreign Workers in Japan and its Relationship to Japan’s Socio-Economic Structure |
| 1991 | Honours | Mee Ching Ling | AIDS in China: The Changes in Chinese Values and Attitudes Which Facilitated its Entrance and the Response of the CCP |
| 1991 | Honours | Barbara Smith | Ito Noe, Living Love and Anarchy: ‘Free Love’ in Taisho Japan |
| 1991 | Honours | Wendy Shore | The Debate on Foreign Workers in Japan and its Relationship to Japan’s Socio-Economic Structure |
| 1991 | Honours | Timothy Mudie | A High Degree of Sovereignty: Hong Kong and the Transition to 1997 |
| 1991 | MA | Hong Yang | China’s Grain Production: Government Policies and Their Impacts Since the 1950’s |
| 1991 | Honours | Christopher Bleby | Nakasone Yasuhiro and Japanese Perceptions of Matters of National Defence |
| 1991 | Honours | K. Nigel Dey | A translation of Hard Gruel by Wang Meng |
| 1989 | Honours | Neil Bradshaw | Japan’s Shitauke Division of Labour Manufacturing System |
| 1989 | Honours | Kim Hong-ja | Struggling to Survive: The Korean Ethnic Education Movement in Post-war Japan |
| 1989 | Honours | Mark Harrison | A Translation of Liu Binyan’s “The Second Kind of Loyalty” |
| 1989 | Honours | Lin Sheng | China’s Coastal Development Strategy: Its Nature and Implications and a Case Study of its Impact on Shandong’s Relations with South Australia |
| 1989 | Honours | Roxanne L. Barnard | Buraku Discrimination and the Myth of Social Integration |
| 1989 | Honours | Gerald Groot | The Third United Front: Chinese reinterpretation of the history and theory of united fronts and co-peration between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Guomindang to support the economic modernization and the final reunification of the Motherland |
| 1989 | Honours | Carol Warner | Peace Education in Hiroshima: Problems of a Radical Movement in Post-1945 Japan |
| 1985 | Honours | Clare Happe | A Reappraisal of the Rice Riots |
| 1985 | Honours | Susan Young | The Price of Modernisation: Chinese Communist Party Policy Towards Intellectuals Since 1978 |
| 1984 | Honours | Tonia Edwards | China’s ‘One-Child Family’ Policy: Its Conception, the Problems Associated with Its Implementation and Its Future Prospects |
| 1979 | Honours | K.M. Bills | An Australian Perspective on proposals for a “New International Economic Order” |
Contact
For further details contact:
Dr Shoko Yoneyama, Tel: 830 35187.
And/or the Centre for Asian Studies Office:
Tel +61 8 8303 5815
Fax +61 8 8303 3488
Email: sarah.hoggard@adelaide.edu.au
The Centre Postgraduate Convenor will promptly respond to your enquiry.
