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

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Chinese social workers during the pandemic: Stuck between the government and the people

  • Leiheng Wang,

China’s continued ‘zero-COVID’ policy is placing a great deal of pressure on grassroots personnel tasked with carrying out the policy.

INTERVIEW: From Socialist China’s democracy movement to escalating military tensions

  • Professorial Fellow, Anne McLaren,

Over the last 50 years, China has experienced a tectonic shift from an impoverished nation with a significant democracy movement to global power with increasing political repression.

Slow Train to Democracy: Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979, Anne E. McLaren

  • Jocelyn Chey, AM,

A first-hand account of China’s transition from the late years of the Cultural Revolution to the economic reforms of the 1980s.