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A/PROF ANNE MCLAREN



Contact Details

Organization: Asia Institute
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/mclaren.html
Work: 03-8344-5149
Mobile: 0438-922-400
Fax: 03-9349-4870
Room: 228
Level: 03
Building: Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Chinese literature, oracy and oral traditions popular culture, the history of print culture in China China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province), Taiwan, Hong Kong (SAR of China)

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Harvard University Research
China East China Normal University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The Australian National University 01-Jan-1977
Graduate Diploma in Education University of Melbourne 01-Jan-1984
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 01-May-1983

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Chinese Studies Association of Australia, member & former Secretary Member 01-Jan-1983
Member Asian Studies Association of Australia, member & former China Councillor Member 01-Jan-1976
Member Association of Asian Studies (US) Member 01-Jan-1984

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Readership for novels and plays in Ming-Qing China Chief Investigator CHIANG CHING-KUO FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY EXCHANGE Project Grants 01/07/2004
Ethnoecology and the State in Regional China Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Performing Grief:Bridal Laments in Rural China
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: University of Hawaii Press(Honolulu)
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Journal Articles

  • Review of Bryna Goodman & Wendy Larson, eds. Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China


    Year: 2008
    Journal: New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 172-176
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  • Competing for Women: The marriage market as reflected in folk performance in the Lower Yangzi Delta
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 1-14
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  • Making Heaven weep: Funeral laments in Chinese culture
    Year: 2008
    Journal: JOSA The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia
    Volume: 39-40
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 369-384
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  • Review of Kimberly Besio and  Constantine Tung, eds. Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
    Volume: 71
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 383-385
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Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of women in world history:Nüshu
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of women in world history
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Cyberspace in East Asia: Introduction
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 385
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  • Feng Menglong. Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty collection
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 82-3
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  • Online Intimacy in a Chinese Setting
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 409-422
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  • Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Lilith
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 145-6
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • China's internet culture: the case of virtual marriage
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of the Humanities
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-4
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  • History repackaged in the age of print: the Sanguozhi and Sanguo yanyi
    Year: 2006
    Journal: School of Oriental and African Studies Bulletin
    Volume: 69
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 293-313
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Constructing new reading publics in late Ming China
    Year: 2005
    Book: Printing and book culture in late Imperial China
    Publisher: University of California Press(Berkeley)
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  • Formats, Texts and Readerships in Late Ming China
    Year: 2005
    Book: Studies of Publishing Culture in East Asia
    Publisher: Ministry of Culture(Tokyo)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Chinese Women: Living and Working
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
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Book Chapters

  • Introduction
    Year: 2004
    Book: Chinese Women: Living & Working
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
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  • Print culture in China and the emergence of the common reader
    Year: 2004
    Book: Studies of Publishing Culture in China
    Publisher: Morimoto Publishers(Tokyo)
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  • Women's Work and Ritual Space in China
    Year: 2004
    Book: Chinese Women: Living & Working
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Zhongguo funü de koutou wenhua yu yishi wenhua [The Oral and Ritual Culture of Chinese Women]
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Minsu yanjiu (Folklore Studies)
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 26-55
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • From Print to the Internet. Some Socio-Historical Perspectives
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of the Book
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 299-307
    Publisher: Common Ground Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Investigating Readerships in Late-Imperial China: A Reflection on Methodologies
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The East Asian Library Journal
    Volume: X
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 104-159
    Publisher: Princeton University Press(New Jersey)
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  • Mothers, Daughters, and the Socialisation of the Chinese Bride
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-22
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • The Oral-formulaic Tradition
    Year: 2002
    Book: Columbia History of Chinese Literature
    Publisher: Columbia University Press(New York)
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  • Zhuge Liang, Daoism and the Textual History of The Narrative of the Three Kingdoms
    Year: 2002
    Book: A Daoist Florilegium
    Publisher: The Commercial Press (HK)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Australia as Dystopia: Recent Mainland Chinese writings in Australia
    Year: 2001
    Book: Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing
    Publisher: Otherland Literary Journal(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Marriage by Abduction in Twentieth Century China
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Modern Asian Studies
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 953-984
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