Dr Justin Tighe
Chinese Studies Room 219 Tel: + 61 3 8344 8907 |
Background
Justin Tighe completed his MA in Politics at La Trobe University and his PhD in Chinese Studies at Monash University. He has been a post-graduate student at the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Inner Mongolian History at the University of Inner Mongolia in the PRC and has lived and worked in Taiwan. Justin is currently researching changing conceptions of the Northwest in Chinese cultural and geographical discourse through the late Qing and Chinese Republican periods and is finishing work on a book on the Inner Mongolian province of Suiyuan during the Republican era which is due to be published by Brill in 2005.
Research Interests
His research interests include the politics of territorial and spatial representation within Chinese nationalism; the history of Inner Mongolia and the Chinese Northwest, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries; regional Chinese studies; ethnicity and “minority nationalities” in the Chinese context; memory, oral history and Chinese revolutionary historiography; and modern state formation and nationalism in China and Inner Asia.