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China
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Ross Garnaut | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
Speaking at the Asialink Chairman's Welcome 2010, Professor Ross Garnaut, a former ambassador to China (1985-1988), discusses China's illustrious history and its status as a nation returning to a position of great power in the 21st century.Asialink, Melbourne, February 2010... » play video
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David Goodman | Sydney | Sep. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2Mao Zedong (1893-1976) is the controversial figure best known as the founder of the People’s Republic of China. He led the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death and was a revolutionary, a guerrilla leader, a political and military strategist and icon for post-modern art.... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 One of the biggest issues facing Asia, and Australia, is how the global financial crisis is affecting China, and whether the Chinese government's policy responses will be effective. At this Wednesday Lowy Lunch presentation, Professor Leong Liew looks beyond the headlines and dis... » play video
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Linda Jaivin | Canberra | Mar. 2009
Linda Jaivin's new novel, A Most Immoral Woman focuses on an obsessive sexual relationship which great Australian overlander and China correspondent George Ernest Morrison had in 1904 with the much younger Mae Ruth Perkins, who was commonly described as an 'American nymphomaniac heiress'... » play video
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Simon Winchester | Sydney | Sep. 2008
British author Simon Winchester (The Surgeon of Crowthorne, The Map That Changed the World) gives an entertaining talk on the subject of his new book. Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China is the story of â??the most famous Englishman ever to have lived in Chinaâ??.... » play video
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