Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Du Li Ping

Chinese Studies



Professional Address

Asia Institute
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 5393
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
E-mail: lpd@unimelb.edu.au

Degrees, Qualifications

Ph.D. Melb.
M.Ed.
M.Ed (Prelim)
B.A.

Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held

2008- Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
2003-2008 Lecturer, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
1998-2002 Senior Tutor, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
1990-1997 Tutor, Department of Japanese and Chinese, University of Melbourne
1986-1987 Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, Kyoto University, Japan
1983-1985 Research Fellow, National Academy of Educational Administration, China

Research Interests


Principal Publications

Sole-authored books

  1. The Marketing of Traditional Medicines in China: The Case of Guangxi Province , Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. 277 pp.
  2. Medical Culture and Trade in Materia Medica in the Guangxi Zhuang Regions, [Chinese Zhuang Studies Library], Beijing, The Ethnic Publishing House, 2008, 304 pp.

Co-authored section in books

  1. (With Di Hong-Xun) "Adult Learning" in Research in Higher Education Administration in China, Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 1990.
  2. (With Di Hong-Xun and Yuan Zi-Huang) "Research Report on the Desirable Characteristics of Higher Education Administrator" in Studies in Administrative Models for University Presidents in China, Association of Chinese Higher Educational Administration, 1986, pp. 326-341.

Sole-authored papers

  1. "Methods of Managerial Education in China". Human Resources, No. 4, Beijing, 1985.
  2. "Traditional Prejudice against Wu as Medical Healers in Guangxi" in Yuan Shaofen, ed. A Study of Regional Han Culture, Nanning: Guangxi People's Publishing House, 1999. pp. 391-398.
  3. "Professional Code or Legal Sanction: Pharmacy in China". Health and History (Journal of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine), Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004, pp. 87-96.
  4. "On the Jingxi Medicine Market", Chinese Zhuang Studies, No. 2, 2005, pp. 197-206.
  5. "A Unique Chinese Medicine Market in Guangxi", Ethnology, Winter 2007, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, pp. 81-91.

Co-authored papers

  1. (With Liu Mingchen) "From English Only to Multilingualism - A Policy Study of the Non-English Languages in Australia since World War I". Journal of Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute, No. 6, 1995, pp. 60-63.
  2. (With Jianjun Urwin) "Designing Reading Tasks for Learners of Chinese as a Second Language: a proposed model of reading task design". Chinese Teaching in the World, the official journal of the World Chinese Teaching Association, No. 2, 2000. pp. 87-94.
  3. (With Jianjun Urwin) "Task-based Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy and How They can Be Adopted into the Design of Chinese Language Textbooks at Tertiary Level". Chinese Teaching in the World, No. 3, 2003, pp. 84-98.
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