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Melbourne Asia Review is an initiative of the Asia Institute. Any inquiries about Melbourne Asia Review should be directed to the Managing Editor, Cathy Harper.

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What motivates students to study Chinese at Australian universities and did this change during the COVID-19 pandemic?

  • Tracy Huahua Hong & Dr Hui Huang ,

Chinese is classified as one of Australia’s most important strategic Asian languages, but currently students’ motivations are not properly considered.

How well does Australia know China?

  • Professorial Fellow, Anne McLaren,

Enrollments in Chinese Honours programs have fallen off a cliff in the past ten years or so.

How health authorities in Australia and China could describe Mpox in less stigmatising ways

  • Yahia Zhengtang Ma,

Mpox is an epidemic of meanings and interpretations which could be expressed differently to minimise stigmatisation and discrimination.

Chinese aid and new contests over the meaning of human rights in Asia

  • Dr Tamas Wells,

China’s notion of the ‘right to development’ will increasingly challenge other donors’ emphasis on individual civil and political rights.

Minority languages in China and the national preservation project

  • Professor Jinfang Li & Professor Yongxian Luo,

There are more than 120 minority languages in China and many of them are endangered.

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