Dr Robert Irving - Researcher Profile

Biography

Robert Irving was born and educated in Melbourne and received his BA (Hons) degree from the University of Melbourne. He has taught Chinese at Melbourne Grammar School and RMIT, and began teaching on a permanent basis at Monash in the former Department of Asian Languages and Studies in 1990. For the past few years his main area of responsibility has been as coordinator of Intermediate Chinese, where he comes into contact with students in the second year of the beginners stream of Chinese language study as well as with first year students in the post-VCE stream.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2011

Publications

Journal Articles

Irving, R.J., 2012, Struggle between 'humanity' and 'party spirit' in Maoist China- the case of Chen Dengke and Ding Ling, Transcultural Studies: a series in interdisciplinary research [P], vol 8, Charles Schlacks Jr, Idyllwild, CA, USA, pp. 172-186.

Irving, R., 1999, Power Chinese 1.01, CALICO Journal, vol 17 no 2, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, Texas USA, pp. 368-376.

Conference Proceedings

Irving, R.J., 2008, The Chen Dengke phenomenon - a case of "affirmative action" in Maoist China, Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, Melbourne, Australia, 01/07/2008 - 03/07/2008, Monash University, http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/asaa/index.php, pp. 1-14.