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Anne McLaren
Honorary Professorial Fellow at Asia Institute, University of MelbourneAnne McLaren is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Before retirement she was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she taught Chinese language and culture for twenty years. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, she served on the Advisory Board of the Academy report on Australia’s China Knowledge Capability. She trained in sinology at the Australian National University and is known for her research into the cultural and literary history of China. Her publications include Memory Making in Folk Epics of China (Cambria Sinophone Series 2023); Environmental Preservation and Cultural Heritage in China (Co-authored, Commonground, 2013); Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008); Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables (Brill, 1998); Chinese Women: Living and Working (as Editor, Routledge, 2003); Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture (Co-edited, Monash Asia Institute, 1999). She has published a memoir of her experiences in China as a student: Slow Train to Democracy: Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000).