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

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Growing green? South Korea’s approach to the COVID-19 economic recovery

  • Theo Mendez,

Korea’s pioneering of ‘green growth’ makes it a leader in reconciling the ever-conflicting goals of economic growth and environmental sustainability.

International students and the Chinese public service: A more inward-looking post-COVID China?

  • Assistant Professor Dan (Diane) Hu,

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?

How Indian students told to ‘go home’ by Australia at the start of the pandemic used WhatsApp for advocacy

  • Dr Surjeet Dogra Dhanji & Dr Mousumi Mukherjee,

National border closures and the pandemic. How Indian students ‘stranded’ in India coped with their plight.

Fortress North Korea and the battle against COVID-19

  • Jasmine Barrett,

The full extent of the impact COVID-19 and related public health measures are having on local populations in the DPRK remains opaque.

‘Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide’ by David Walker and Li Yao, with Karen Walker

  • Professor David S. G. Goodman,

A kind of dual biography about these two creative writers and the societies from which they emerged.