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ItemNo Preview AvailableTaiwan Inside and Out: Redefining the Self During the Pandemic(Leiden University Press, 2023)
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ItemFrom collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-18)This article examines Zhang Wojun (1902–1955) and the memory of his ‘collaboration’ with Japan during the Second World War. A Taiwanese-born writer and educator who lived in Beijing for 25 years, his drifting identity was full of ambiguities. Although he was one of the key intellectuals behind Taiwan’s New-Old Literatures Debate and responsible for introducing many May Fourth ideas to Taiwan, he also played an important role in bringing Japanese literature and thought into Chinese discourse during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. During the war, he continued to teach in Beijing and travelled to Japan to attend the Greater East Asia Writers’ conferences. Some of his works from this period call for the Chinese people to support the empire and eradicate Western culture and literature from Asia, but many of his writings also indicate a strong sense of Chinese nationalism. This article considers the memories of Zhang, his various intellectual contributions, and his oeuvre, arguing that his collaboration must be understood and contextualized within his intellectual landscape through a research methodology that examines continuities and change across decades of his life and work.
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ItemIntroduction: Taiwan – Re-articulations of Politics and Culture in a Marginal State(Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, 2024)For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been caught between empires. The indigenous people first encountered imperialism through colonisation under the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth century, and Taiwan later became a geopolitical point of interest for China, Japan, and the United States. It remains so today.
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ItemEveryday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy(University of California Press, 2024-06)This study investigates how bribery is defined, negotiated, and practiced in the everyday lives of ordinary North Koreans. Reflecting on interviews spanning over two decades with North Korean migrants in South Korea and China, a team of North Korea experts has identified the patterns of micro-level bribery in everyday life in North Korea that differ, to some extent, from those of other post-communist states in Eastern Europe and Asia. By carefully examining the accounts of ten former North Korean residents, the researchers find that the traditional socialist economy, once prevalent in workplaces, schools, and hospitals, has now been supplanted by individual-to-individual private market interactions. Moreover, bribery serves not only as an informal practice but also as a “moral economy,” which differs from the more organized forms of corruption seen at the elite and enterprise levels.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableReport on Fostering the Provision of Korean Language Education in Victoria (2024)(Zenodo, 2024-06-05)Australia is one of the few countries in the world (together with New Zealand, Vietnam, and Thailand) to have locally developed a school curriculum for the Korean language. Nevertheless, the opportunities to receive Korean instruction are not evenly distributed between states and territories. In Victoria, Korean is offered through a limited number of schools, indicating a lack of pathways available for continuous learning from primary school to university. This situation does not reflect the reality that at the tertiary level, Korean Studies is one of the fastest-growing language programs, with only a small portion of background learners. The current provision of Korean in Victoria is not enough to support the development of a critical mass of Korea-literate Australians, which is necessary to support the future development of the cooperation between Korea and Australia, two key partners in the Indo-Pacific region. To address this situation, the first Victoria Korean Teachers' Forum (제 1회 빅토리아주 한국어 교사 포럼) was held at the University of Melbourne on 20th March, 2024, supported by the Korean Consulate-General of the Republic of Korea in Melbourne, and co-hosted by the University of Melbourne and Monash University Korean Studies programs. The forum was designed to gather insights from Korean teachers based in Victoria and foster an ongoing dialogue on the promotion and development of Korean language education in Victoria. This report collects and contextualises the main issues that emerged at the forum and provides recommendations for addressing them.
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ItemColonial Hero: Son Kijong in Narratives of Popular and National Korean History(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2024-04-02)
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ItemVision and motivation of adolescent language learners in Australia(Multilingual Matters, 2024)
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ItemQ methodology, subjectivity, and language research(Multilingual Matters, 2024)
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ItemAustralian-Korean multicultural family members' emotions about their family language policy(Multilingual Matters, 2024)
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ItemAdvancing Language Research through Q Methodology(Multilingual Matters, 2024-04-22)This volume investigates the ways in which Q methodology can uncover and foreground new perspectives and contribute to language education and language policy research. It demonstrates the flexibility of this research methodology in addressing dynamic and complex language issues across a variety of educational topics and geographical contexts. The chapter authors use Q methodology to explore topics such as identity, motivation, cognition, emotion, pre-service and in-service teacher beliefs and to evaluate language programmes, curricula and policies. These contributions highlight Q methodology's potential to inform theoretical developments by revealing fresh perspectives on contemporary issues and generating new hypotheses. They foster further Q methodology research, demonstrating how it can contribute to a science of subjectivity and allow researchers to value the perspectives of all stakeholders for more inclusive research. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in language education and language policy research and those in the broader field of social sciences looking to expand their knowledge of the methodology and how it can be used to study contemporary, dynamic and complex issues.