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Chinese social workers during the pandemic: Stuck between the government and the people
China’s continued ‘zero-COVID’ policy is placing a great deal of pressure on grassroots personnel tasked with carrying out the policy.
International students and the Chinese public service: A more inward-looking post-COVID China?
Australia assumes that Chinese students educated in Australia will be a ‘soft power’ asset. But what if Australia-educated students aren’t getting the influential jobs?
INTRODUCTION: (Post-) COVID social and environmental challenges in Asia
The post COVID challenges for Asian governments and societies are enormous and some of the most significant are related to China.
‘Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide’ by David Walker and Li Yao, with Karen Walker
A kind of dual biography about these two creative writers and the societies from which they emerged.
The fall of Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms? An analysis of closures and future directions
Worsening relations between China, North America, Europe and Australia means many Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms have closed, but more are opening in other regions.