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The East-West Centre for Cultural & Economic Studies

Established in 1993, The East-West Centre for Cultural and Economic Studies provides a focus for research, teaching, interdisciplinary applications, and education on the interactions among culture, society, economics and politics in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region.
The Centre acts as a virtual think-tank, linking academics at Bond University with colleagues and associates in Australia, Asia, Europe and America, enhancing mutual cooperation and supporting individual as well collaborative efforts through intellectual exchange and dialogue.

Throughout 2011 the Centre has been promoting their research through a range of events and publications. The key achievements include:

  • Promoting research within the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, largely through the International Relations streams but also via research projects by Dr Rosita Dellios, Dr R. James Ferguson, and Jonathan Ping as well as by alumni, associated (not-staff) academics, and academics writing for the Centre Bulletin, the Culture Mandala. This included seminars and publications by Centre fellows and external advisors such as Alan Chan and Reg Little.
  • Promoted research and dialogue through regular contacts with Australian, Asian and international academics, including colleagues in Singapore, USA, Germany, PRC, Taiwan, India, Estonia and New Zealand.
  • Centre members presented papers or attended conferences in Beijing and Wellington, and published articles or papers including:
    • R. James Ferguson and Rosita Dellios, ‘Harmony and Humane Governance – Contesting the Social Order in Classical Chinese Thought and 21st Century Global Society’, Journal of International Confucian Studies (Beijing), Vol. 18, March 2011, pp. 614-656.
    • Rosita Dellios and R. James Ferguson, ‘From Peaceful Rise to a Harmonious World: China’s 21st Century Strategic Outlook’, China's Accession to the WTO 10 Years Later: China and International System, Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS) and the Institute of International Studies, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, 22-23 Oct 2011
    • Rosita Dellios and R. James Ferguson ,‘The Confucian Face of the Future’, Looking forward: Trends, Horizons and Utopias, Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Annual conference, Victoria University of Wellington, 7-9 December 2011
  • Participation with the Beijing Academy and the World Confucian Conference, China.
  • Hosting public seminar on ‘Mindfulness’ and Chinese philosophy. 
  • Developing cooperative links with Chinese and Turkish universities. The Centre is also exploring possible links with Indian think tanks. 
  • Provided publication opportunities and a 'dialogue space' for international scholars, new writers and Bond University postgraduates that present alternative views on Centre themes via articles in the Culture Mandala.
  • From 2011 the Centre supported the publication or ‘in progress’ research for several books, including Alan Chan’s Topical Topics (Robina: Bond University -Centre for East-West Cultural & Economic Studies, 2011), Rosita Dellios & R. James Ferguson China’s Quest for Global Order: From Peaceful Rise to Harmonious World (contracted for publication in late 2012 through Lexington Books), and Rosita Dellios, The Defence of the People’s Republic of China: Philosophy, Capabilities and Scenarios (research begun in 2011, being negotiated for publication in 2013).

Find out more about the Centre for East-West Cultural & Economic Studies