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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.

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The complexities of translating legal terms: Understanding Fa (法) and the Chinese concept of law

  • Lachlan Thomas-Walters,

Uncritically translating ‘fa’ directly to ‘law’ may may lead to social, cultural and legal misunderstanding.

Global civil society must promote linguistic rights for China’s Indigenous peoples

  • Dr Gerald Roche,

China is involved in historical denialism that enables the Party-state to continue human rights abuses against vulnerable linguistic communities.

How Kong’s civil society networks have contributed to the containment of COVID-19

  • Sophie Chen & Associate Professor Chris Chan ,

The networks and solidarity formed by the democracy movement laid the groundwork for a prompt civil society response to COVID-19.

China’s quest for greater technological self-reliance

  • Professor Bates Gill,

Chinese leaders have endorsed a sweeping economic strategy which will have profound implications for global economics and geopolitics, including for Australia.

Asian-Australians: quiet migration or immigration indigestion?

WEBINAR: Contrasting the case studies of South Korean and Chinese migration to Australia.