Dr Justin Tighe
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5951 |
| Email: | jtighe@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 330 East |
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| Biography | |
| Research | |
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Biography
Justin Tighe gained his BA and MA at La Trobe University and a PhD in Chinese Studies from Monash University in 2003. He has studied at Nanjing University and the University of Inner Mongolia in the PRC and National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He has taught in range of university settings in Australia and the USA and most recently has been a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University in the USA.
Research
Justin’s research centres on the Inner Asian frontier of China of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and questions of space, place, landscape and administration in a frontier context. He has published a book which examines the creation, life and effacement of a Chinese province established in Inner Mongolia in the early twentieth century. He is currently reseraching the idea of the North-West and geographic visions of the Inner Asian frontier in 20th century China . Other 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; Republican Chinese travel writing; memory, oral history and Chinese revolutionary historiography; and modern state formation and nationalism in China and Inner Asia.
Publications
- Justin Tighe, Constructing Suiyuan: The Politics of Northwestern Territory and Development in Early Twentieth Century China, Leiden: Brill, 2005