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Jia Gao
Jia Gao is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne. His recent books include: Chinese Activism of a Different Kind; Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurship in Australia from the 1990s; Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China; Chinese Immigration and Australian Politics; and Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings. He also co-edited Transforming Chinese Cities, and Global Media and Public Diplomacy in Sino-Western Relations.
Subjects: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Geography , Social Psychology, Sociology & Social Policy
Biography
Professor Jia Gao is a graduate of Renmin University of China, formerly known as the People's University of China, in Beijing. He was a lecturer in social psychology and sociology at the same university, and he was also in charge of various research projects there before coming to Australia in 1988. In the same year, Professor Gao was awarded the first and only national academic prize in sociology by China's National Commission of Education and the Hong Kong-based Fok Ying Tung Foundation. He completed his PhD in human geography at the University of Melbourne, where he started teaching in its Chinese program as a casual tutor in 1993, and has been in his current position since 1997. Professor Gao teaches various subjects at the Asia Institute, including Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Society.Education
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BA (Hons), Renmin University of China, 1982
PhD, the University of Melbourne, 2000
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Professor Gao's current research interests include contemporary Chinese society and the new Chinese migrant community in Australia. He has carried out continuing longitudinal research on the experiences of new Chinese migrants in Australia since 1988. At the same time, he has pursued his research interests in applied social psychological and sociological studies of post-1978 Chinese society, with a focus on public opinion and socio-political dynamics, social stratification, elite dominance and ideology in post-Mao China. Professor Gao has produced wide-ranging publications in both English and Chinese, including the following recent books: Chinese Activism of a Different Kind (Brill, 2013); Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurship in Australia from the 1990s (Elsevier, 2015); Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China (Edward Elgar, 2019); Chinese Immigration and Australian Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): and Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings (Anthem, 2023). He also co-edited the following volumes: Transforming Chinese Cities (Routledge, 2014), and Global Media and Public Diplomacy in Sino-Western Relations (Routledge, 2017).
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