Professor Stephanie Donald
Professor of Culture and Communication, Director of University Research Centre for Trans/forming Cultures, University of Technology, Sydney
Current ARC Projects
2003-2005 'Branding Cities on the West Pacific Rim: Cinematic Traditions and Tourism Marketing Strategies in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sydney'
2003 'Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the WTO and the Knowledge-based Economy' (with J Hartley, M Keane, S Cunningham, T Flew, C Spurgeon
International Linkages
Branding Cities on the West Pacific Rim Project Exhibition, with the Hong Kong Film archive. This will demonstrate ARC outcomes to a wide audience of the international public.
Internationalising the Creative Industries. I am working closely with the Shanghai Television University to develop a case study on mass access to tertiary education.
Invited Papers at International Symposia
1999 'Women in Chinese Film', China and Visual Culture symposium, Indiana University
1999 Cultural Memories of the Cultural Revolution symposium, Indiana University
1999 'Contemporary Violence - Children's Media as a Modality of National Memory', State Fictions, Post-national Realities: Cultural Perspectives on Institutions and Violence, Institute of Ethnology, Academica Sinica, Taipei
2000 'Listening to Hong Kong: An Ex-pat Perspective on the Sophistication of Satire', Second International Conference on Hong Kong Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2000 'Exchange and Display: Republics of Taste and the Vision of Elder Statesmen', Communications Faculty seminar, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2000 'The Impact of Media on Current Literary and Cultural Studies OR The Necessary Privations of Growing Up', open lecture, Beiyu, Beijing Language and Culture University
2000 'Children and Chinese Media Culture', invited workshop at Chinese Studies Centre, University of California-Berkeley
2000 'La Chine in Culture/China', University of Nottingham Film Seminar
2000 'Ambiguous Women in Chinese Cinema' (with C Lee), University of Westminster, New Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies
2001 'Media in China: New Convergences, New Approaches' (with Michael Keane), Media seminar series, University of Sussex
2001 'Children and Citizenship in China', Linking Latitudes, Asialink Conference, Shanghai (published online at http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/aef/shanghai/papers/sdonald/html)
2001 'Modern Citizenship in China: Children's Day' Linking Latitudes, (Shanghai) Perspectives: Contemporary Issues in China Conference
2001 'The Virtual Tourist' Transnational China Advertising Project and the Centre for the Study of Globalising Cultures, Hong Kong University and Rice University
2002 Panel discussant, American Asian Studies Conference panel on Political Visuality in China, Washington, DC
2002 'Nations Online: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition', UCLA, Center for International Research CIRA
2002 'Australian Children's Film and Television: An Intercultural Perspective', International Conference on Film Education, Zibo, PRC
Publications
Series editor
Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia (Routledge-Curzon, 2003 -) This series has two books under contract, two proposals under review, and four proposals in development.
Books
The State of China Atlas (with Robert Benewick), New York: Penguin Books, 1999 (with simultaneous editions in French, German and Spanish). New edition in planning.
Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (ed., with Harriet Evans), Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
Public Secrets: Public Spaces: Cinema and Civility in China, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information (with Mark Balnaves and James Donald), New York: Penguin USA (Simultaneous editions: The Global Media Atlas, London: BFI; Atlas des médias dans le monde, Paris: Éditions Autrement; Der Fischer Atlas Medien, Frankfurt: Fischer.) 2001.
Media in China: Consumption, Content, and Change (ed., with Michael Keane and Yin Hong), London: Routledge-Curzon, 2002
Little Friends: Children's Media in New China, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield (under contract) 2004
Chapters in Books
‘Introducing Posters of China’s Cultural Revolution’ (with Harriet Evans), in Evans and Donald eds. Picturing Power, 1999, 1-26
‘Children as Political Messengers: Space and Aesthetics in Posters and Film’ in Evans and Donald eds. Picturing Power, 1999, 79-100
'Mapping Employment' (with Robert Benewick), in Qiu Yuanlun and Luo Hongbo eds. A Comparative Study of Employment Policies in the European Union and China, China Economic Press, 1999, 255-264
‘Seeing White’ in Wang Ning et al eds., Globalisation and Postcolonial Criticism, Central Compilation and Translation Press, 1999, 322-343
'The Publicness of Cinema’ (with James Donald), in Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams eds. Re-inventing Film Studies, London: Edward Arnold, 2000, 114-129
'Ambiguous Women in Contemporary Chinese Film' (with C. Lee), in Shoma Munshi ed., Images of the 'Modern Woman' in Asia: Global Media/Local Meanings, Curzon, 2001, 123-137
‘Cultural Functionality: Media Research and Error’ (with Ingrid Richardson), in Hugh Brown et al (eds) Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory, Melbourne: Fibreculture Publications, 2001, 253-262
‘Children’s Day: The Fashionable Performance of Modern Citizenship in China’, in Wendy Parkins ed. Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender and Citizenship, Oxford: Berg, 2002, 205-216
‘Media in China: New Convergences, New Approaches’ (with Michael Keane), in Donald, Keane and Yin Hong eds. Media in China, 2002, 3-17
‘Responses to Crisis: Convergence, Content Industries, and Media Governance’ (with Michael Keane), in Donald, Keane and Yin Hong eds. Media in China, 2002, 200-211
‘Crazy rabbits! Children’s Media Culture and Socialization’, in Donald, Keane and Yin Hong eds, Media in China, 2002, 128-138.
‘Treasuring the Word: De-politicisation and the Material Present’ (with Robert Benewick), in Robert Benewick, Marc Blecher and Sarah Cook (eds.) Asian Politics in Development: Essays in Honour of Gordon White, London: Frank Cass, 2003, 66-83.
‘Virtual Tourism and New Media Citizenships in Scotland and Hong Kong: Complementary Case Studies’ (with John Gammack), in Tain Dow-lee ed., Digital Technology and Digital Popular Culture, Taipei: Yuan-liu Press, 2002 (in Chinese)
‘Children, media, and the public sphere in Chinese Australia’ (Yingchi Chu, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Andrea Witcomb), in Gary Rawnsley and Ming-yeh Rawnsley eds. Political Communications in Greater China: The Construction and Reflection of Identity, London: Routledge Curzon, 2003, 261-274.
‘Women, Technology in the Teaching Profession: Multi-literacy and Curriculum Impact’ in Anne McLaren ed. Chinese Women – Living and Working, London, Routledge-Curzon (2004 forthcoming), 131-146.
‘The Ice Storm: Ang Lee, cosmopolitanism and the global audience’ in Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher eds. Contracting Out Hollywood, (2004, forthcoming)
Refereed Articles
'La Chine in Culture / China', New Formations, 40, 2000, 7-14
'Seeing White: Female Whiteness and the Purity of Children in Australian, British and Chinese Visual Culture', Social Semiotics, 10:2, 2000, 157-171
'The Necessary Privations of Growing Up’, New Formations, 41/2, 2001, 131-14
'Exchange and Display: Republics of Taste and the Vision of Elder Statesmen’, Communal-Plural, October 2001, 183-202
'History, Entertainment, Education and Jiaoyu’: A Western Australian Perspective on Australian Children’s Media, and Some Chinese Alternatives’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4:3, 2001, 279-299
'Going Home: History, Nation and the Mournful Landscapes of Home’ (with Wanning Sun), Metro: Film, Television and Multimedia, 129/30, 2001, 140-149
'The English Project: Function and Culture in New Media Research’ (with Ingrid Richardson), Inter/Sections: The Journal of Global Communications and Culture, 2003.
'National Sovereignty versus Moral Sovereignty: The Case of The Australian Reporting of Taiwan’ (with Mobo Gao and Zhang Shaoquan) in Media Asia, an Asian Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol 30, no.1, 2003, 22-30,
Reviews, and review articles
‘Power and the Borrowed Body', UTS Review, 5:1, 1999, 254-257
‘Women in China: Country Profile', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 1, 1999, 162-3
‘The Children’s Culture Reader’, Media International Australia, 96, 2000, 193-195
‘Mao, the Present and Paperweight Politics’ (with Robert Benewick), Island, 87, 2001, 71-74
Review of Andrew B. Kipnis Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self and Subculture in a North China Village, Australian Journal of Anthropology, 12:1, 2001, 100-101
Review of Shelley Stamp, Movie Struck Girls: Women and Motion Pictures after the Nickolodeon and D.L.Parsons, Streetwalking the Metropolis: The City and Modernity, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4:2, 2001, 250-254
‘ “It’s called splicing”: Shadow Magic and that Bloke from South London’, Metro, 131/2, 2001, 144-145
‘Beijing Bicycle (shiqi sui de dannian) or the Awkwardness of Being Seventeen’, Metro, 133, 2002, 190-193
Review of Accent on Privilege: English Identities and Anglophilia in the US, in Contemporary Sociology, 2002, 68-69
Review of Lure of the Modern, in Intersections: History, Gender and Culture in the Asian Context (online journal), 2002
Review of Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China’s Fifth Generation, Asian Studies Review, 2003 forthcoming
Review of Fire on the Rim: The Cultural Dynamics of East/West Power Politics, in Theory, Culture and Society, 2004 forthcoming
Journal issues edited
Culture / China (with Harriet Evans), themed issue of New Formations, 40, 2000
Uses of Media in the People’s Republic of China (with Michael Keane), themed issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, July, 2003
Current Research Interests
branding, cinema, and tourism
creative and cultural work in Asia
children's media
cultural change and transformation in China and the Asia-pacific