Assoc Prof Gloria Davies - Researcher Profile

Biography

Gloria Davies conducts research across several areas: Chinese intellectual and literary history from the 1890s to the present; contemporary Chinese thought; comparative literature and critical theory; and studies of cultural flows in the digital age.

Trained in Sinology at the Australian National University, she read literary theory and modern Chinese literature as a graduate student at the University of Melbourne. She has extensive experience in developing inter-disciplinary and inter-Faculty collaborative projects. She is a member of the Literature Research Unit within the Faculty of Arts at Monash. She is an Adjunct Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World, based at the Australian National University.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Barme, G., Goldkorn, J., Cartier, C., Davies, G. (eds), 2012, China Story Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.

Davies, G., D'Cruz, J., Hollier, N. (eds), 2008, Profiles in Courage: Political Actors and Ideas in Contemporary Asia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Davies, G., 2007, Worrying About China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachussetts United States.

Davies, G., Nyland, C.T., 2004, Globalization in the Asian region, impacts and consequences, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham UK.

Davies, G., 2001, Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc, Lanham Maryland.

Book Chapters

Davies, G., 2012, Discontent in digital China, in China Story Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse, eds Geremie R. Barm, Jeremy Goldkorn, Carolyn Cartier, Gloria Davies, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT, pp. 119-142.

Davies, G., Cho, Y., Davies, M., 2010, Hallyu Ballyhoo and Harisu. Marketing and representing the transgendered in South Korea, in Complicated Currents. Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia, eds Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita, Monash University ePress, Australia, pp. 1-12.

Davies, G., Davies, M., 2010, Jin Xing: China's transsexual star of dance, in Celebrity in China, eds Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 169-191.

Davies, G., Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Correct ideas and social security reform in China: the case of Shanghai's township insurance, in Migration and Social Protection in China, eds Ingrid Nielson and Russell Smyth, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 65-91.

Davies, G., Grant, S.J., 2008, Righting wrongs: the language of policy reform and China's migrant workers, in Migration and Social Protection in China, eds Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 31-48.

Davies, G., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Globalization, late industrialization and China's accession to the WTO: a critical perspective on close integration, in Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences, eds Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, pp. 185-213.

Barme, G.R., Davies, G., 2004, Have we been noticed yet? intellectual contestation and the Chinese web, in Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market, eds Edward Gu and Merle Goldman, RoutledgeCurzon, London UK, pp. 75-108.

Davies, G., Nyland, C.T., 2004, Views of globalization, empire and Asia: an introduction, in Globalisation in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences, eds Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, pp. 1-16.

Davies, G., 2003, The Chinese intellectual world: dissent in the pursuit of community, in Gonggong xing yu gonggong zhishifenzi (Publicity and Public Intellectuals), eds Xu Jilin, Jiangsu Peoples' Press, Jiangsu Province Republic of China, pp. 249-281.

Davies, G., 2001, Introduction, in Voicing concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, eds Gloria Davies with a Conclusion by Geremie R Barme, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Maryland USA, pp. 1-16.

Davies, G., 2001, The Self-Made Maps of Chinese Intellectuality, in Voicing concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry, eds Gloria Davies with a Conclusion by Geremie R Barme, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Maryland USA, pp. 17-46.

Journal Articles

Davies, G., 2011, Certitude and linguistic play in Chinese critical inquiry, Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture [P], vol 38, issue 2, Duke University Press, US, pp. 125-153.

Davies, G., 2011, Fragile Prosperity, China Heritage Quarterly [E], vol 26, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-6.

Davies, G., 2011, Homo Dissensum Significans, or the perils of taking a stand in China, Social Text [P], vol 29, issue 4, Duke University Press, Durham USA, pp. 29-56.

Davies, G., Han, G., 2011, Korean cosmetic surgery and digital publicity: Beauty by Korean design, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: Quarterly Journal of Media Research and Resources [P], vol 141, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia, pp. 146-156.

Davies, G., 2010, Affirming the human in China, Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture [P], vol 37, issue 1, Duke University Press, USA, pp. 57-90.

Davies, G., 2010, The Shanghai Haze, China Heritage Quarterly [E], vol 22, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-4.

Davies, G., Davies, M.E., 2009, Filmed Founding Myths, China Heritage Quarterly [E], vol 20, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-5.

Davies, G., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhu, J.C., Zhu, J., 2009, The "X component" in Shanghai's social security reforms, International Social Security Review [P], vol 62, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford UK, pp. 31-54.

Davies, G., 2008, Bibliomania in Sino-cyberspace, China Heritage Quarterly [E] China Heritage Quarterly China Heritage Quarterly [E], vol 13, Australian National University - Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australia, pp. 1-3.

Davies, G., Ramia, G.G., 2008, Governance reform towards "Serving migrant workers": The local implementation of central government regulations, The China Quarterly, issue March 2008, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 140-149.

Davies, G., 2008, Moral emotions and Chinese thought, Michigan Quarterly Review, vol XLVII, issue 2, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, pp. 221-244.

Ramia, G.G., Davies, G., Nyland, C., 2008, The compliance challenge: implications for social security in the people's Republic of China, International Social Security Review, vol 61, issue 1, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford UK, pp. 1-19.

Davies, G., 2007, China's reformists: from liberalism to the 'third way', Global Dialogue, vol 9, issue 1-2, Centre for World Dialogue, Nicosia, Cyprus, pp. 39-48.

Davies, G., 2007, Habermas in China: theory as catalyst, The China Journal, issue 57, Contemporary China Centre ANU, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 61-85.

Davies, G., 2006, Wang Hui: the historian as social critic in China, Overland, vol 182, issue Autumn, O. L. Society Ltd, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 68-73.

Davies, G., 2006, Zhang Longxi "Allegoresis: reading Canonical literature east and west", Religion & Literature [P], vol 38, issue 4, The Univesrity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA, pp. 139-141.

Davies, G., 2004, Liu Dong and his defence of theory and Confucianism as practice, East Asian History, vol 0, issue 25/26, Australian National University, USA, pp. 183-217.

Davies, G., 2002, Anticipating community, producing dissent: the politics of recent Chinese intellectual praxis, The China Review, vol 2, issue 2, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 1-35.

Davies, G., 2001, Liang Qichao in Australia: A Sojourn of No significance?, East Asian History, vol 21, issue June 2001, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 65-110.

Davies, G., 2000, Theory, professionalism and Chinese studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol 1 no 1 spring 2000, Ohio: Foreign Language Publications, Ohio USA, pp. 1-42.

Davies, G., 1999, High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics and Ideology in Deng's China, The China Journal, vol no 41, University of California Press, Berkeley USA, pp. 209-211.

Davies, G., 1999, Talking Democracy with Wei Jinsheng, Arean Magazine, vol 44, Arena Printing and Publishing Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 9-10.

Davies, G., 1998, Book Review (Kamlouie & Louse Edwards, eds & trans, censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories of Yuan Mei), Asian Studies Review, vol 22 no 2, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 263-264.

Davies, G., 1998, Professing Postcoloniality: The Perils of Cultural Legitimation, Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, vol 1 no 2, Carfax Publishing Ltd, Oxfordshire UK, pp. 171-182.

Davies, G., 1998, Towards A Reflective Critical Practice In Chinese Studies, The Example of Wang Hui, The UTS Review, vol 4 no 1 may 98, John Libbey Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 18-24.

Davies, G., 1997, Mao more than ever, ART Asia Pacific, vol n/a, Fine Arts Press Pty Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 94-95.

Conference Proceedings

Davies, G., Wu, G., 2008, Affirming Chinese identity in a language of violence: reflections on writings by China's new nationalists, 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. 1-15.

Ramia, G.G., Davies, G., Nyland, C., 2005, Internal migration and social security compliance in China, Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, 29 September 2005 to 30 September 2005, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 513-532.

Other

Davies, G., 2010, Review of Eric Hayot, Haun Sausst, Steven G. Yao, sinographies: writing China, Asian Studies Review, vol 34, issue 1, Taylor & Francis Inc., Abingodn, Oxfordshire, Uk, pp. 111-113.

Davies, G., 2008, Changing clothes in China: fashion, history, nation UNSW Press, 301/52, Gloria Davies, Australian Book Review, vol 301, issue 52, Australian Book Review, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 52-53.

Davies, G., 2008, Should we worry about Chinese patriotism?, Invited online essay, Off the Page Harvard University Press Author Forum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Davies, G., 2008, Worrying about China - The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry, Periodical or Program: Philosophers Zone, ABC Radio National, ABC Radio National, Sydney, Australia.

Davies, G., 2005, 3 encyclopedia entries: 'academic e-journals', 'Gan Yang', 'Xu Jilin, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, Routledge, Abingdon UK.

Davies, G., Wee, V., 1998, Chinese Religion, The Encylopaedia of the Chinese Overseas, vol monograph, Archipelago Press, Landmark Books, Singapore, pp. 80-83.

Davies, G., 1998, Women's History - East Asian and South East Asian, A Global Encyclopadia of Historical Writing Vols 1 and 2, vol encyclopaedia, Garland Publishing Inc, New York USA & London UK, pp. 952-953.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

From the late Qing to the May Fourth: Changing self and translating the modern.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Wilson, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Representing more than memory: The visual legacy of the Pol Pot regime..

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Chandler, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Savouring 'Oriental Beauty': Materiality, agency and the senses in Taiwanese tea culture..

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Hough, B (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Trauma and Its Legacies: Division and Reconciliation between Taiwanese and Mainlanders.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Chase, T.

Program of Study:

An internet-mediated political public sphere in China and South Korea. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Cho, Y (Associate).

Student:

Chen, Z.

Program of Study:

Compound ideograph: a contested category in studies of the Chinese writing system. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Allan, K (Joint-Co), Davies, G (Joint).

Student:

Chi, L.

Program of Study:

Translation and Modernity in Late Qing China (1895-1911). (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Wilson, R (Associate).

Student:

Duncan, H.

Program of Study:

BEYOND SHADOWPLAY: THE BODY AND THE VISUAL. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main).

Student:

Harrison, M.

Program of Study:

LEGITIMIZING 'TAIWAN': THE FORMATION OF A TAIWANESE NATIONAL IDENTITY. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Jacobs, J (Main), Davies, G (Associate).

Student:

Huppatz, D.

Program of Study:

HONG KONG DESIGN: CULTURE MEETS COMMERCE. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Irving, R.

Program of Study:

Narrating new China: Chen Dengke, Liu Qing and the politics of literary production (1949-1976). (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Joint-Co), Jacobs, J (Joint).

Student:

Lu, Y.

Program of Study:

Conceptual Metaphors in the Dao de jing. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Joint-Co), Margetts, A (Joint).

Student:

Lugg, A.

Program of Study:

Make up something good: the pursuit of attention and the evolution of Chinese user-created content. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Hong, L (Associate).

Student:

Micic, P.

Program of Study:

SCHOOL SONGS AND MODERNITY IN LATE QING AND EARLY REPUBLICAN CHINA. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main).

Student:

Pang, A.

Program of Study:

Huang Naishang: a Chinese Christian reformer in late Qing and early republican China. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Joint-Co), Jacobs, J (Joint).

Student:

Roman, M.

Program of Study:

Framing the Korean 'comfort women' movement: domestic constraints and transnational alignments. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Cho, Y (Associate), Trefalt, B (Associate).

Student:

Sun, C.

Program of Study:

THE CONSTRUCTION OF "CHINESE" CULTURAL IDENTITY: ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WRITING BY AUSTRALIAN AND OTHER WRITERS WITH CHINESE ANCESTRY. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main).

Student:

Wu, G.

Program of Study:

The great dragon fantasy: a Lacanian (psycho) analysis of contemporary Chinese thought. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Janover, M (Associate).