Prof. Beverley Hooper

BA (Tasmania), MA, PhD (Australian National)

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Current Research

Beverley Hooper is currently writing a book on Western residents in the People's Republic of China during the Mao era (1949-1976): the remnants of the Pre-revolutionary Western community, long-term residents (China's 'foreign comrades'), the small group of Korean War POWs who settled in China, the diplomatic community, correspondents, short-term 'foreign experts', and students. The project focuses on the identities of the individual communities and the dynamics operating within and between them.

Selected Publications

Youth in China. London : Penguin Books, 1985

China Stands Up: Ending the Western Presence, 1948-50 . London and New York : Allen & Unwin, 1986.

'Chinese Youth: The Nineties Generation', Current History, 90: 557, September 1991, 264-69

Rethinking Contemporary China. The Fifty-second George Ernest Morrison Lecture, Canberra : Australian National University, 1992. (Reprinted in Asian Studies Review, 16:1, 1992)

(ed. with David S.G. Goodman), China 's Quiet Revolution: New Interactions Between State and Society. Melbourne : Longman and Cheshire ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.

'"Flower Vase and Housewife": Women in China 's Consumer Society' in Krishna Sen and Maila Stivens, ed., Gender and Power in Affluent Asia . London : Routledge, 1998, 167-93.

'Globalisation and Resistance in post-Mao China : The Case of Foreign Consumer Products, Asian Studies Review , 24:4, 2000, 439-70.

'Consumer Voices: Asserting Rights in post-Mao China ', China Information , 14:1, 2000, 92-128.