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Australian Studies Program : Book Prizes
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History

'Australian Studies Book Prizes are awarded biennially at the national conference of the Chinese Australian Studies Association. Three prizes are available:

–for the best work of original scholarship published in Chinese on an Australian topic in the previous two years;

–for the best work of original scholarship published in English on an Australian topic in the previous two years;

–for the best translation into Chinese of a work of scholarship about Australia or an Australian literary work published in the previous two years.

'The prizes are awarded to recognise and encourage the efforts of researchers, writers and translators working in the field of Australian Studies in China. They are only open to scholars and translators based in China. The judges reserve the right not to award a prize in any particular category or to vary the awards depending on the works submitted.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner y separately published work icon A History of Australian Literary Criticism Wang Labao , Beijing : Zhongguo she hui ke xue , 2016 9526049 2016 multi chapter work criticism

For an original work of scholarship

winner y separately published work icon Dang Dai Aodaliya Xiao Shuo Xuan An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Fiction Jiongqiang Zhu (editor), Hangzhou : Zhejiang shao nian er tong chu ban she , 2015 9368858 2015 anthology short story

for a work of translation

Year: 2014

winner Yu Ouyang For the translation into Chinese of Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore.
recipient Wei Zhang For an original work of scholarship. The W.H. Donald Files: Adventures of an Australian in Modern China
winner Zhu Xiaoying For an original work of scholarship. Helen Garner: A Critical Study

Year: 2012

winner Xiang Xiaohong For an original work of scholarship : The History of Australian Women’s Writing

Year: 2008

winner Hong Chen

Original Work : Australian Literary Criticism

With Chen Feiniand Fan Lin

winner 窦坤 Translation. An Australian in China
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