HUANG Zhong,PhD (University of Wollongong, Australia), Associate Professor in English Literatures, Doctoral Supervisor; Director of the Australian Studies Centre of Wuhan University

Research Areas:

Australian Literature and Culture, Diasporic Chinese Literature, Gender Studies

Affiliations:

● Executive member of the Council of Area and Country Studies in Chinese Universities

● Member of the Council of the Chinese Association for Australian Studies

● Member of the Council of the Translators Association of Hubei Province

● Member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Australian Cultural Studies

● Member of the China World Association for Chinese Literatures

Publications

(1) Journal Articles

Huang Zhong and Wenche Ommundsen. “From ‘Unreliable Man’ to ‘True Lover’: Shifting images of Chinese men in writing by Chinese Australian women writers of mainland background.” Westerly 65:2, November 2020, 169-184.

Huang Zhong and Wenche Ommundsen, “Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics: The first Chinese Australian novel.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52:5, December 2016, 533-544.

Huang Zhong and Wenche Ommundsen, “Towards a multilingual national literature: The Tung Wah Times and the origins of Chinese Australian writing.”  JASAL (Special issue: Worlds Within), 15:3, 2015.

Huang Zhong and Wenche Ommundsen, “No man’s land: Migration, masculinity and Ouyang Yu’s The Eastern Slope Chronicle.” Antipodes 29:2, December 2015, 449-461.

Liu Lurong and Huang Zhong, “Transgressive and Creative Liminal Smellscape in Brian Castro’s Transnational Writing.” Contemporary Foreign Literature 41:2, 2020.

“A Study of the Effect of Self-Disciplined Learning.” China University Teaching (9) 2006: 53-55.

“Concept and Measurement of L2 Oral Accuracy.” Wuhan University Journal (5) 2003: 64-69.

“The Influence of China’s Entry into WTO on the Reform of English Teaching in China.” Science & Technology Progress and Policy (4) 2002: 172-73.

“The Set-up of Self-Direction Model through the Use of English Radios to Enhance Students’ English Proficiency.” Wuhan University Journal (5)2000: 69-72.

“Application of Situational Approach to the Teaching of New Concept English.” Language, Culture Education and Research (2) 2000: 79-82.

“On Translation of Trademarks in Line with Marketing Strategy.” Translation and Culture. Wuhan: Hubei Science and Technology Press, 2000: 247-249.

(2) Books and Book Chapters:

Coursebook of Audio-Video English. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2005.

Students’ Book of the Coursebook “New College English”. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2002.

Tackling GRE Analytical. Beijing: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 2001.

Coursebook of Listening to English (Band 6). Wuhan: Wuhan University of Sciences Press, 1999.

Conference Presentations

“From Unreliable Man to True Lover: Shifting Images of Chinese Men in Fiction by Female Australian Writers of Mainland Chinese Background”. Presented at the 2017 ASAL conference, Melbourne, July 2017.  

“Gender and Sexuality in Shi Guoying’s Mistaken Love”. Presented at the “Workshop on Australia’s Multicultural Heritage”, University of Wollongong, July 2015.

“Polygamists Beware - The First Chinese Australian Novel”. Presented at the Literary Studies Convention, University of Wollongong, July 2015.

“Early Chinese Australian Writing - The Tung Wah Times”. Presented at the ASAL annual conference,University of Sydney, July 2014.

“The Exiled Scholar: A Study of the Male Protagonist in Ouyang Yu’s The Eastern Slope Chronicle”. Presented at the 3rd Asian Australian Studies Research Network Conference (AASRN) held at Curtin University, Perth, in November 2010.

“Scholarship on Chinese Masculinities and Diasporic Chinese Masculinities”. Presented at the 6th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 6) held in South Korea in 2009.

“Syntactic Complexity and EFL Writing Proficiency”. Presented at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference in Winnipeg, 2004.

Grants

● Images of China in Chinese Australian Literature in English (Chief investigator, National Social Sciences Fund, 2021, RMB 200,000)

● Creating a database for Chinese Australian Literature (Chief Investigator, Foundation for Australian Studies in China, AUD $15,000, 2019)

● “China-phobia” and the Representation of China in Mainstream Australian Media (Chief Investigator, Wuhan University, RMB 30,000, 2018)

● A Study of the Promulgation of ‘The Belt and Road Initiative’ in Australia and Strategies to Enhance the Australian Understanding and Acceptance of It (Chief Investigator, Education Ministry of China, RMB 25,000, 2017)

● Sons of the Yellow Emperor Down Under: Early Chinese-Australian Writing and Its Evolution (Chief investigator, Australia-China Council, AUD $3,000, 2013)

● New Transnationalims：Australia’s Multicultural Literary Heritage (Co-investigator, Australian Research Council, 2013)

● Building Australian Studies at Wuhan University (Co-investigator, Australia-China Council, 2013)

Awards  

● First-Prize Winner of the 3rd Outstanding Teaching Award of Wuhan University

● First-Prize Winner of the 1st Teaching Contest at the School of Foreign Languages & Literature of Wuhan University