Foreword
Peking University’s Engagement in Australian Studies since the 1970s
It is a considerable honor and historic privilege for Australian Studies Centre of Peking University to be given the opportunity of hosting the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies at Peking University in July 2016, in collaboration with the National Association of Australian Studies in China. Nothing else could be more desirable and significative than hosting this conference, which thematically focused on “Australia in the World: Past, Present and Future”, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Australian Studies Centre of Peking University. The founding Director of Australian Studies Centre of Peking University is Professor Hu Zhuanglin, Peking University Distinguished Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, who has been actively engaging with Australian Studies at Peking University and substantially contributing to its growth and collaboration with many other universities in China and Australia since his completion of the MA degree (Honors) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney in 1981, under the supervision of the internationally renowned linguist Professor Michael Halliday. Since its establishment in 1996, Australian Studies Centre of Peking University has been functioning as a dynamic multidisciplinary centre, in promotion of Australian Studies as an important and indispensible field in the general academic structure of Peking University. It has been making the best use of academic and teaching resources in various faculties and departments of Peking University to enhance Australian Studies by offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses, supervising MA and PhD students to write their degree theses and dissertations, collaborating in research programmes, and engaging in academic exchanges and cultural activities between Peking University and Australian universities or governmental organizations such as Australia-China Council and the Australian Embassy in Beijing.
It was at the 14th biennial international conference of Australian Studies in China, which was held in July 2014 at Mudanjiang Normal University, that the National Association of Australian Studies in China made the decision of selecting Australian Studies Centre of Peking University as the host of the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies. Under the leadership of the National Association of Australian Studies in China, Australian Studies Centre of Peking University and the Organizing Committee of the conference made the best possible efforts from 2014 to 2016 in preparation for the conference, with the aim of making it a successful, productive and enjoyable one, as its predecessors had so done in the past three decades.
In consideration of an appropriate theme for the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies, we realized that since 2014, many significant events had taken place between China and Australia, exerting considerable impacts on the bilateral relation and making it more deeply engaged in the dimensions of the geopolitical relations in the Asia-Pacific region. Among others, President Xi Jinping visited Australia in November 2014, when he attended the G20 summit in Brisbane. Apart from his visit to Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney, President Xi Jinping also proposed a visit to Tasmania because of his personal interest. This short but meaningful visit to Tasmania means that President Xi Jinping has visited all the six states of Australia. It was interpreted as a message that President Xi Jinping attached noticeably increasing attention to developing overall relations of strategic partnership with Australia.
As one of the highlights of his visit to Australia, President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot agreed to uplift the China-Australia relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefits, and moreover, they announced the substantial conclusion of China-Australia Free Trade Agreement negotiations, which had been going on for over a decade. This announcement means that the two governments agreed to make more efforts to promote better trust and deeper cooperation for a shared future of the two countries. As President Xi Jinping’s speech on November 17, 2014 at the Federal Parliament of Australia “Pursuing Chinese and Australian Development Dreams Hand in Hand and Achieving Regional Prosperity and Stability Shoulder to Shoulder” further expounds, the Chinese people are now making unremitting efforts to realize the Chinese Dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, so it is necessary and important for China to adhere to the path of peaceful development in a stable and harmonious domestic environment and a peaceful and cooperative international environment. For such a great goal that must take a few generations to achieve and rely on the global peace and common development, President Xi Jinping emphasized in his speech that China would always adhere to the path of common development characterized by pursuing the mutually beneficial and win-win strategy of opening-up, and providing a broader market, more abundant capital, more affluent products and more valuable cooperation opportunities for international and regional partners, including Australia and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.1
In the wake of President Xi Jinping’s 2014 visit to Australia and joint efforts of the governments and peoples in both China and Australia, more achievements were subsequently made in many social fields of the two countries. In terms of political relations, the Australia-China High-Level Dialogue (HLD) was established in 2014, which intended to be an annual dialogue platform to enhance mutual understanding by bringing together senior Chinese and Australian government representatives with business, academic, and social leaders to discuss policies and key issues impacting on the bilateral relationship. The inaugural HLD was held in December 2014 in Beijing. In December 2015 the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement entered into force, which significantly enhanced the already strongly growing trade and investment relationship between the two highly complementary economies. According to the statistics provided by the Australian government, China was Australia’s largest two-way trade partner in both goods and services, and the total trade values in 2016 were increased by 3.7% against 2015, reaching $155.2 billion. China was Australia’s largest export market ($93 billion) and largest source of imports ($62.1 billion), and Australia’s trade surplus was $30.9 billion. As Australia’s 5th largest direct investor, the 2016 stock of Chinese direct investment in Australia has grown up to $41.9 billion, which moved into not only resources as it had in previous decades but also agriculture, tourism and infrastructure as new investment targets. The year of 2016 also saw that the number of enrolments by Chinese students strongly grew more than 15 % over 2015, and that the total number of Chinese students studying in Australia reached 157,000, maintaining China as Australia’s largest source of international students and Australia as one of the most popular destinations for Chinese students studying abroad. In tourism, there were around 1.2 million Chinese visitors to Australia, contributing to the Australian economy and increasing people-to-people understanding between China and Australia.2
In 2016, China-Australia newly established comprehensive strategic partnership was further strengthened by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s first official visit to China in April, along with a large business delegation. The national leaders of the two countries agreed to keep the relations on the right track by respecting each other’s core interests and major concerns and developing common interests for the benefits of the people of the two countries. President Xi Jinping further stressed China’s willingness to enhance cooperation with Australia within the framework of G20, the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum (APEC), the East Asia Summit, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), so as to make joint contributions to infrastructure connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region. In the face of the opportunities of common developments as well as challenges of various kinds, China called for both the alignment of the Belt and Road initiative with Australia’s northern development plan, and the synergy between China’s national strategy of innovation-driven development and Australia’s national innovation and science agenda. In September, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull came to China once more to attend the G20 summit in Hangzhou, where he also had a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping to bring the relations closer and stronger. In addition, the third annual Australia-China High-Level Dialogue was held in Beijing in November 2016.
As part of China-Australia engagements, Australian Studies in China has also made encouraging and substantial achievements since 2014. However, these achievements are by no means efforts separated from the social and academic context. As a matter of fact, in the process of reviewing what was achieved in Australian Studies in China since the 21st century, we amazingly found that the conspicuously important developments and changes in the China-Australia relations in the past two decades have been well reflected in the dynamic evolution of Australian Studies in China, as academics and scholars are professionally insightful in observing the bilateral relations and discovering new valuable possibilities of research, to fill the vacancies of previous research work and meet the needs in policy-making and practice of furthering the bilateral relations. A statistic survey on the basis of the cyber archive of China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database (http://www.cnki.net/) indicates that the number of MA theses and PhD dissertations on Australian Studies that were completed in Chinese universities and colleges has been dramatically increasing from 2000 to present. For instance, only one PhD dissertation and one MA thesis were completed in 2000, but in 2005 a total of twenty three degree papers were completed, including two PhD dissertations and twenty one MA theses. Then in 2010 a total of fifty-eight degree papers were completed, including four PhD dissertations and fifty four MA theses. The 2015 achievements were much more impressive and record-breaking with a total of one hundred and three degree papers completed in various academic fields, including four PhD dissertations and ninety nine MA theses.
In the meantime, thanks to the unprecedented development of internet and digital information technologies and the various kinds of cooperation between more than thirty Australian Studies centres in Chinese universities, most of the Chinese scholars of Australian Studies are connected as members of an academic community, sharing academic resources and making joint efforts in teaching and research as the result of their academic engagements and committed responsibilities to build up the mutually understanding, respectful and beneficial relationship between China and Australia.
In some major aspects in its teaching and research, Australian Studies at Peking University may epitomize some highlights of the general developments and typical features of Australian Studies in China, especially the recent transition from the traditional focus of studying Australian literature, history and culture to more extensive fields in humanities, social sciences and even natural sciences since the last decade of the 20th century. For example, a total of five MA students with their degree theses on Australian Studies graduated from Peking University from 1990 to 2000, and the topics of their theses focused respectively on the Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White and his novel The Tree of Man (Wang Xuan, 1991), the evolution of Australia’s relations with the Asia-Pacific regions in the Post-war era (Wen Lixin, 1994), Hong Kong immigrants to Australia after the World War II (Yang Guang, 1998), Labor Party and the development of Australian society and politics after the Second World War (Han Jun, 2000), and Australia’s Post-war Asia-Pacific policies: 1945—1951 (Liu Yao, 2000).3
Then, as more scholars engaged with Australian Studies since the 21st century, a total of eight MA theses and two doctoral dissertations were completed at Peking University from 2001 to 2010, and their research projects spread more extensively into economy, trade, forestry, investment, diplomatic relations, library science, and etc. With regard to the objects of their research, those MA theses looked into the history of Australian colonization (Nie Yifeng, 2001), Australia’s anti-dumping investigations and their resultant industrial damages (Luan Chengyu, 2002), Australian forests and the vestal narrative of fire from 1788 to 1914 (Xu Xingying, 2006), South African-born Australian novelist J.M. Coetzee’s autobiographical works and fiction and his view of nature (Liu Mei, 2008), Australian public libraries and their construct standards and guidelines (Wang Xuan, 2009), theory and methodology of the Chinese-teaching classroom activities in Southwood Boys Grammar School in Australia (Wang Yanxiang, 2010) , China-Australia Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in mining resources (Yang Yang, 2010), and tension in the China-Australia relationship as a legacy of Australian history (Christopher Louie, 2010).4
If the academic framework of Australian Studies at Peking University may be compared to the geometry of a pyramid, in which undergraduate and postgraduate courses and MA theses stand as the foundation and the principal middle parts, its upper part is crowned with PhD dissertations. In the first two decades of the 21st century, from 2000 to 2016 nine doctoral dissertations were completed in the field of international relations, environmental studies, economy, law, race, politics, governmental management, and public healthcare. As their titles display, those PhD dissertations made substantial efforts to develop Australian Studies from multifarious perspectives, including “Labor Party and the development of Australian society and politics after the Second World War” (Han Jun, 2000) , “Research on Australia’s Equalization Transfer System” (Lv Chenfei, 2008), “Equality and Its Boundaries: Cultural Practice in a Sport Club in Australian Capital Territory” (Yang Chunyu, 2008), “On the Peculiar Approach of Australian Equal Protection” (Li Zhiqiang, 2012)，“The Australian Victorian Gold Rushes: A Research from the Perspective of Environmental History (1851—1880)”(Fei Sheng, 2012), “Environment，Race and Power: A Revisit on the Early History of Irrigational Agriculture in Southeast Australia (1788—1910)” (Qiao Yu, 2013),“The Research of the Distribution of Financial Power in Australia” (Hu Yutao, 2015),“Generic Hybridization in Australian Life Writing and Travel Writing” (Zhang Wenru, 2016), and “Comparative Study on State Responsibility and Its Realizing Mechanism in Aged Care between Australia and China” (Lei Yuruo, 2016). The PhD dissertations in Australian Studies at Peking University preceded other Chinese universities not only in quantity but also in the extension, depth and quality of their research, representing some of the major achievements and characteristics in the circles of Australian Studies in China.5
Reality can never be dissociated from history. The history of Australian Studies at Peking University can be traced back to the mid 1970s, soon after China-Australia diplomacy was established in 1972. Since the 1990s, Australian Studies at Peking University primarily engaged in literary studies, history and bilateral relations and then soon began expanding into other disciplines and academic fields in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and even interdisciplinary branches. These growing changes and developments find expression in MA theses and PhD dissertations as well as the academic articles published in journals by faculty members involved in Australian Studies. As early as in 1991, a co-authored article “A Restudy of the Lateral Line System of Neoceratodus Forsteri” was published in Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, by Cheng Hong of the Department of Biology at Peking University and R. E. Barwick of the Department of Zoology at Australian National University. In the same period, as a pioneering Chinese scholar studying Australian laws, Professor Jiang Mingan of the Law School of Peking University published an article on Australia’s New Administrative Law, “The Making of Australia’s New Administrative Law and Its Contents” in Peking University Law Journal in 1995, which was followed by his second article in the same year “The Theory and Practice of Australia’s Appointment of the Legislation System” in China Legal Science. As one of the founding members of Australian Studies Centre of Peking University, Professor Jia Qingguo gave priority to China-Australia relations since the 1990s, as represented by his article “Towards Equality and Mutual Benefits: China-Australia Relations since the End of the Cold War”, which was published in International Politics Quarterly in 1999.6
The beginning of the 21st century saw the swift multidisciplinary acceleration of Australian Studies at Peking University and beyond. Such a dynamic and influential change may be generally described as the “Multidisciplinary Turn” in Australian Studies in China. As a term designating the contextualized phenomena of Australian Studies in China, the “Multidisciplinary Turn” defines the swift and powerful evolution of Australian Studies from literary, cultural and historical studies as the conventional core fields to increasingly more disciplines and fields, which have emphatically enriched the range and value of Australian Studies in China and brought about more benefits and impacts to China-Australia relations.
In this transitional process, Peking University has been playing an initial and leading role in the “Multidisciplinary Turn” in Australian Studies. As early as in 2000, Professor Liang Shoude of the School of International Studies published Europe, Australia and the World at the Turn of the 21st Century, a book as a critical study of the relations between Europe, Australia and the rest parts of the world as geopolitical parallels. In medical science, Dr Li Chunyu of the Health Science Centre comprehensively explored the system of medical service in Australia in the article“General Practice in Australia”, which appeared in Foreign Medical Sciences (Series of Hospital) Management in 2000. Published in Scientia Geographica Sinica in 2002 , the article “On Fractal Dimensions and Their Comparison of China, USA and Australia Based on GIS” by Zhu Xiaohua, a post-doctoral fellow of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, preliminarily observed and analyzed the practical calculation of fractal dimensions for different coastlines in the three countries.7
As Director of Australian Studies Centre of Peking University, Professor Hu Zhuanglin planned in 2002 as Editor in chief of a series of four monographs in making multidisciplinary efforts to promote Australian Studies. This research and publication project was financially supported by Australia-China Council. With the general title“Understanding Australia Series”, the four books were subsequently published by Peking University Press, including History of Australia-Asia Relations: 1940—1995 (2002) by Professor Zhang Qiusheng of Jiangsu Normal University, The Media in Australia (2002) by Professor Zhang Wei of Hebei University, The Australian Diplomatic History of the 20th Century by Professor Wang Shiming of East China Normal University, Australian Literature: Themes and Selected Readings (2004) edited by Su Yong of Peking University, and Research on Australia’s Equalization Transfer System (2010) by Dr Lv Chenfei of Peking University.8 Understanding Australia Series was followed by an English monograph on China-Australia Economic Relationship by Professor Ding Dou of the School of International Studies. As a research project supported by Australian Studies Centre of Peking University, the book was published by China Economic Publishing House in 2012, as the first of its kind by a Chinese scholar of China-Australia relations.
Some emerging fields as interdisciplinary studies were initially introduced in this period by some of the Peking University faculty to further generate the“Multidisciplinary Turn” in Australian Studies. As one of the few Chinese scholars who first engaged environmental historiography since the first decade of the 21st century, Professor Bao Maohong of the Department of History published the article “Review on Australian Environmental Historiography” in Historiography Quarterly in 2009, critically interpreting the features and value of the contemporary rise of environmental historiography in Australia as an interdisciplinary field of traditional history. Besides, Dr Wang Sisi of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences published the article“Water Sensitive Urban Design in Australia and Its Enlightenment” in China Water & Wastewater in 2010. Then it was followed by Chen Keshi’s article “The Process and Inspiration of Urban Renewal Brisbane, Australia” issued in Modern Urban Research in 2014. This article is an in-depth systematic study of the background, planning process, strategies, implementation and the outcomes of the urban renewal program in Brisbane, highlighting that community engagement, neighborhood planning, catalytic projects, public housing strategy, specific practices of the city features and the URB itself are among the main reasons for the success of the long-term project.9
In public health science, Gao Wenjing of Health Science Centre published the article “The introduction of the Australian twin registry” in The Chinese Journal of Epidemiology in 2010. Professor Bao Yanping of Health Science Centre introduced sports medicine in Australia in the article “Introduction to Anti-doping Management Australia” in The Chinese Magazine of Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment in 2010. Professor Ding Dou of the School of International Studies discussed “The Climate Politics in Australia since 2007” in International Politics Quarterly in 2011. Li Zhiqiang of the Law School published the article “A Study of Australia’s Land Expropriation System” in Administrative Law in 2011.10
In tertiary education management and sociology, Dr He Fei of the Office of Scientific Research looked into the role of global university raking among Australian universities in the article “Analysis of the World High Impact University Ranking in Australia and Its Inspiration to China” in Science and Technology Management Research in 2011. Professor Jiang Kai of the Graduate School of Education comparatively analyzed the nature of higher education as industry in the article“Formation and Development of Markets in Higher Education in the USA, UK, and Australia” in Research on Education Tsinghua University in 2016. In 2016 Zhou Yanlv of Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University published the article “The Study of Community Planning in Queensland, Australia: System, Content and Preparation Process” in Urban Planning International.11
In addition to the above efforts and publications, Peking University postgraduates also contributed, as a significant driving force of research, to the “Multidisciplinary Turn” in Australian Studies. In media, public communications and library science, “The Imbalance and Rebalance of Copyright in Digital Environment: A Study of Australian Copyright System” by Liu Chao of the Law School was published in Internet Law Review in 2005. As a similar study, Sun Jing of the Department of Information Management published “Study on the Australian Copyright Reform: To Protect the Interest of the Public” in Digital Library Forum in 2006. In 2009 Wang Xuan of the Department of Information Management published the article “Building Standards of Public Libraries in UK, Australia and Japan” in The Journal of The Library Science in China. Fu Ruolan of the School of International Studies co-authored the article“Response Strategies to Market Access Policies in Developed Countries: The Case of Chinese Enterprises in Australia” in 2014 in Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies in association with Professor Zha Daojiong. In 2014 Hou Jia of the School of Journalism and Communications published the article “Research on advertising self-regulated system in Australia” in Advertising Panorama. In 2014 Ma Yan of the School of International Studies published the article “An Analysis of Australia’s Public Opinion on China’s Rise” in National Studies References. 12
In recent years, collaboration between Chinese scholars and academics of Australia and other countries has become more popular and productive in joint publication and made Australian Studies in China more dynamic, interdisciplinary and complementary, further consolidating the “Multidisciplinary Turn” in increasingly expanding contexts. In 2012 Professor Wang Yong of Peking University co-authored the Chinese version of the article “The New Resource Politics: Can Australia and South Africa Accommodate China?” issued in International Politics Quarterly , in collaboration with Professor Mark Beeson of the University of Western Australia and Associate Professor Solo Mills of South Africa. The article is a convincing comparative study of the ever-increasing influence of China’s rise and the material transformation of the Chinese economy on Australia and the South Africa, analyzing the new resources politics when China has become the centre of the global new resources. In 2016 Professor Wu Bihu co-authored the article “Empirical Research on Environmental Attitude of Non-consumptive Wildlife Tourism: A Case Study of Dolphin Discovery Center in Bunbury, Australia”published in Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis , in collaboration with Cong Li of Beijing Forestry University and Associate Professor David Newsome of Murdoch University of Australia.13
As what is discussed above about the dawn and booming changes of Australian Studies in China since the 1970s from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, to choose “Australia in the World: Past, Present and Future” as the theme of the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies chiefly intends to highlight the politics and strategy of promoting Australian Studies from the global and multidisciplinary contexts, instead of looking at Australia as a separate country in the traditional dimensions of bilateral relations, literature, literary translation, culture and history. Such a choice with multilateral and multidisciplinary orientations not only results from the analytical observation of the evolution of Australian Studies in China but also endeavors to prepare a possible pathway for the development of Australian Studies in the near future.
Although Professor David Walker of Deakin University, the inaugural BHP Billiton Chair Professor of Australian Studies at Peking University from February 2013 to February 2016, didn’t attend the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies, my colleagues of Australian Studies Centre of Peking University and the Organizing Committee and I are deeply appreciative of his significant contribution to Australian Studies at Peking University and other universities in China by his attractive, persuasive, thought-provoking and humorous teaching, lectures and conversations, apart from the respectful, trustworthy and congenial relationship and friendship he and his wife Associate Professor Karen Walker helped build up as an unique feature of the academic communities of Australian Studies in China. We also owe much to Professor Walker’s memorable contribution to the planning of the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies in the early phase of our preparatory work.
With regard to the BHP Billiton Chair Professor of Australian Studies programme at Peking University, it is worthwhile to gratefully acknowledge the founding contribution of the former Australian Ambassador Geoff Raby to its establishment. As a creative and foresighted initiative of promoting Australian Studies in China and thereby advancing the mutual understanding and relationship between Australia and China, Geoff Raby proposed in 2010 to collaborate with Peking University to get the Chair professor of Australian Studies established at Peking University as a joint programme between the Australian Government and Peking University. His proposal was warmly welcomed and appreciated. Thanks to the long-term tenacious efforts made by the two sides, the MOU of the BHP Billiton Chair Professor of Australian Studies programme at Peking University was signed in Beijing on 27 April 2011, in the presence of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on her official visit to China.
As the proceedings of the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies, this book consists of 22 articles selected from the more than 100 papers presented at the conference, and to some degree it showcases some representational research orientations and highlights of Australian Studies in China and Australia. On behalf of Australian Studies Centre of Peking University and the Organizing Committee of the 15th biennial international conference of Australian Studies, I would like to thank the authors of the selected papers for their considerable contribution to the conference and the conference proceedings.
Liu Shusen
Director, Australian Studies Centre
Peking University
1 See “Xi Jinping Delivers Important Speech at Federal Parliament of Australia Entitled ‘Pursuing Chinese and Australian Development Dreams Hand in Hand and Achieving Regional Prosperity and Stability Shoulder to Shoulder’”(https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/topics_665678/xjpzxcxesgjtldrdjcfhdadlyxxl fjjxgsfwbttpyjjdgldrhw/t1212614.shtml).
2 See “China Country Brief: Bilateral Relations” (https://dfat.gov.au/geo/china/Pages/china-country-brief.aspx).
3 For more information on the above four theses, see the following Chinese bibliography (王萱：《平凡背后的诗与神秘—试论P.怀特和他的<人之树>》，1991年；闻立欣：《论战后澳大利亚与亚洲太平洋地区关系的演进》，1994年；杨光：《二战以后澳大利亚的香港移民研究》，1998年；韩隽：《工党与战后澳大利亚的社会政治发展》，2000年；以及刘峣：《战后初期澳大利亚的亚太政策（1945—1951年）》，2000年).
4 For more information on the above eight theses, see the following Chinese bibliography (聂义峰：《澳大利亚拓殖的历史与经验》，2001年；栾成妤：《论澳大利亚反倾销调查中的产业损害调查发—兼论中国产业损害调查的完善》，2002年；徐兴颖：《解析澳大利亚森林与火的“退化叙述”（1788—1914）》，2006年；刘梅：《论J.M.库切的自然观》，2008年；王萱：《澳大利亚公共图书馆建设标准研究》，2009年；王燕翔：《澳大利亚南木中学汉语课堂活动研究—兼论维州汉语课堂的活动教学》，2010年；杨杨：《中国与澳大利亚在澳洲矿业资源领域互动的政治与经济分析》，2010年；路易斯：《中澳关系的张力：澳大利亚历史的遗迹》，2010年).
5 For more information on the above nine dissertations, see the following Chinese bibliography (韩隽：《工党与战后澳大利亚的社会政治发展》，2000年；吕晨飞：《澳大利亚均等化转移支付制度研究》，2008年；杨春宇：《平等及其边界：澳大利亚首都地区体育社团的文化实践》，2008年；李志强：《澳大利亚平等保护的独特路径》，2012年；费晟：《澳大利亚的维多利亚淘金热研究—基于环境史的视角：1851—1880》，2012年；乔羽：《环境、种族与权力：澳大利亚东南部早期灌溉农业发展史再研究：1788—1910》，2013年；胡玉桃：《澳大利亚联邦财政分权研究》，2015年；张文茹：《澳洲传记与游记的杂糅：四种游记杂糅类型的个案研究》，2016年；以及雷雨若：《中澳养老服务中政府责任及其实现机制的比较研究：以福利治理为视角》，2016年).
6 For more information on the above four articles, see the following Chinese bibliography (程虹等：《澳大利亚肺鱼Neoceratodus forsteri侧线系统的再研究》，载《北京大学学报（自然科学版）》， 1991年第2期，第248—256页；姜明安：《澳大利亚委任立法制度的理论与实践》，载《中国法学》， 1995年第1期，第105—112页，姜明安：《澳大利亚“新行政法”的产生及其主要内容》，载《中外法学》；1995年第2期，第66—70页；贾庆国等：《走向平等互利:冷战结束以来的中澳关系》，载《国际政治研究》，1999年第3期，第57—64页).
7 For more information on the above publications, see the following Chinese bibliography (梁守德主编：《世纪之交的欧洲、澳大利亚与世界》，当代世界出版社，2000年；李春宇等：《澳大利亚的全科医疗》，载《国外医学（医院管理分册）》，2000年第4期，第181—183页；朱晓华等：《GIS支持的中美澳海岸线分维及其比较研究》，载《地理科学》，2002年第6期，第689—693页).
8 Understanding Australia Series is the first research and publication project Australian Studies Centre of Peking University launched in collaboration with scholar of Australian Studies centres at other Chinese universities. It was also one of the earliest projects Australia-China Council sponsored in promotion of Australian Studies in China. The Chinese bibliography of the series is as follows (胡壮麟主编：“认识澳洲丛书”，北京大学出版社，包括张秋生：《澳大利亚与亚洲关系史：1940—1995》，2002年；张威等：《澳大利亚传媒》，2002年；汪诗明：《20世纪澳大利亚外交史》，2003年；苏勇编著：《澳大利亚文学主题选读》，2004年；吕晨飞：《澳大利亚均等化转移支付制度研究》，2010年).
9 For more information on the articles, see the following Chinese bibliography (包茂红：《澳大利亚环境史研究》，载《史学理论研究》，2009年第2期，第75—86页；王思思等：《澳大利亚水敏感城市设计及启示》，载《中国给水排水》，2010年第20期，第64—68页；陈可石等：《澳大利亚布里斯班市区重建的规划历程及其启示》，载《现代城市研究》，2014年第10期，第68—74页).
10 For more information on the articles, see the following Chinese bibliography (高文静等：《澳大利亚双生子登记系统概述》，载《中国流行病学杂志》，2010年第6期，第700—702页；鲍彦平等：《澳大利亚兴奋剂管理简介》，载《中国药物滥用防治杂志》，2011年第6期，第359—363页；丁斗：《2007年以来的澳大利亚气候政治》，载《国际政治研究》，2011年第3期，第18—31页；李志强：《澳大利亚土地征收制度初探》，载《行政法论丛》，2011年，第73—93页).
11 For more information on the articles, see the following Chinese bibliography (贺飞等：《澳大利亚世界大学科研影响力排名分析及其启示》，载《科技管理研究》，2011年第11期，第49—55页；蒋凯：《美国、英国、澳大利亚高等教育市场的形成与发展》，载《清华大学教育研究》，2016年第2期，第15—23页；周彦吕等：《澳大利亚昆士兰州社区规划：体系、内容及修编机制》，载《国际城市规划》，2016年第2期，第116—122页).
12 For more information on the articles, see the following Chinese bibliography (刘朝：《数字环境下版权的失衡与再平衡—从澳大利亚制度谈起》，载《网络法律评论》，2005年，第91—98页；孙静：《澳大利亚版权修订：对公众利益的最大维护》，载《数字图书馆论坛》，2006年第11期，第54—59页；王萱等：《英国、澳大利亚、日本的公共图书馆建设指标》，载《中国图书馆学报》， 2009年第1期，第26—41页。傅若兰等：《应对发达国家市场准入的策略分析—以中资企业进入澳大利亚为例》，载《当代亚太》，2014年第1期，第74—99页；侯佳：《澳大利亚广告行业自我监管制度研究》，载《广告大观（理论版）》，2014年第4期，第62—71页；马妍：《试析澳大利亚舆论对中国崛起的认知》，载《国家研究参考》，2014年第10期，第1—7页) .
13 For more information on the articles, see the following Chinese bibliography (王勇等：《新资源政治经济学—南非与澳大利亚对中国资源战略政策的比较研究》，载《国际政治研究》，2012年第3期，第5—23页；丛丽、吴必虎等：《非资源消费型野生动物旅游者的环境态度研究—以澳大利亚海豚探索中心为例》，载《北京大学学报（自然科学版）》，2016年第2期，第295—302页).