Staff profile

Dr Yangbin Chen

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

SS 420, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (Hong Kong), MEd (Nanjing), Diploma (Jiujiang).

Membership of professional associations

Asian Studies Assoc. of Aust. (ASAA). Wah Ching China Education Research Centre (CERC), The University of Hong Kong. The Aust. Federation of Modern Language Teachers Assoc. (AFMLTA).

Area of study

Chinese
Asian Studies

Brief profile

Before joining La Trobe University in December 2009, Yangbin had worked for, respectively, The University of New South Wales, University of Western Sydney, Nanjing Normal University and Chinese National Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Beijing. Yangbin is interested in researching and teaching in the fields of: China studies (ethnicity, social and educational development). Chinese language studies (teaching Chinese as a second language, Chinese sociolinguistics).

Research interests

Asian Cultural Studies

- China studies

Chinese Languages

- Chinese language studies

Teaching units

CHI1BEA - Chinese Beginners 1. CHI1DSA / CHI3ADA - Chinese Dialect Speakers 1 and Chinese Advanced 3. CHI3CPA - Readings in Contemporary Chinese Prose. CHI2/3PPA - Chinese for Professional and Academic Purposes. AST2BCE - Introduction to Asian Cultures and Traditions.

Recent publications

Chen, YB 2010, (forthcoming) 'Boarding school for Muslim Uyghur students in China', in GA Postiglione & G Beckett (eds), Indigenous and Minority Language Education: Identity Reconstruction in Rising China, The University of Hong Kong Press.

 

Chen, Y.B. 2010, (forthcoming) 'Crossing frontier and inland in China: Family social capital for minority Uyghur students in a Chinese boarding school', Chinese Education & Society, ME Sharpe.

 

Chen, YB 2010, 'Speaking Uyghur as a bonding social capital: Boarding school for Uyghur students’, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal, 4(1): 4-16.

 

Chen, YB & Postiglione, GA 2009, 'Muslim Uyghur students in a dislocated Chinese boarding school: Bonding social capital as a response to ethnic integration', Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, Spring, 2(2): 287-309.

 

Chen, YB 2008, Muslim Uyghur students in a Chinese boarding school: Social recapitalization as a response to ethnic integration, Lexington Books, Lanham, MA.

 

Chen, YB & Shen HZ 2007, ‘Chinese Background Students’ Attitudes towards Chinese Language: A Case Study in an Australian Community Language School’. Research report for Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award Project 2005, Cheung Kong Group and Australian Government, Australian Education International.

 

Chen, YB 2005, 'The reforms of secondary education in China', China Cross Currents, 2(3): 42-65.

 

Chen, YB 2004, 'Ethnic integration?: Xinjiang Classes in inland senior high schools in China', Research Studies in Education, 2: 1-12, The University of Hong Kong.

 

Chen, YB 2003, 'Social capital and its main applications in sociology of education', Research Studies in Education, 1: 186-199, The University of Hong Kong.

 

Zhang, LT and Chen, YB 2002, ‘Report of case study on improving primary school teacher education in China’s poverty areas’, in LT Zhang (ed.), International Comparative Study on Training of Primary School Teachers in Underdeveloped Areas, UNESCO International Rural Education Research and Training Centre (INRULED), Nanjing.

Research projects

Online teaching program for Professional Chinese, working with Dr Wang Ping, The University of New South Wales. True of False?: The Image of Han Majority in the Eyes of Minority Youth in Urban China, paper for the Panel of “Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Contemporary China: Identity, Society and Politics”, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) 18th Biennial Conference 2010, The University of Adelaide 5 - 8 July 2010. Co-organizing with Dr. James Leibold on “Multicultural Education and the Challenges to Chinese National Integration” Workshop, Forthcoming in 2010, La Trobe University.