The George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology is given annually at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

in honour of

George Ernest Morrison George Ernest Morrison (4 February 1862 – 30 May 1920) was an Australian journalist, political adviser to and representative of the government of the Republic of China during World War I, and owner of the then largest Asiatic library ever as ...

. The Lectures, founded by the Chinese community in Australia "to honour for all time the great Australian who rendered valuable service to China" were also, in the words of

Geremie Barmé Geremie R. Barmé (born 1954) is an Australian sinologist and film-maker on modern and traditional China. He was formerly Director, Australian Centre on China in the World and Chair Professor of Chinese History at Australian National Universit ...

"related to Chinese-Australian resistance to White Australia policy, reflecting also the alarm and outrage resulting from the

Japanese invasion of Manchuria The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded the Manchuria region of the Republic of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden incident, a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade. At the ...

in 1931." Several of the older lectures were reprinted in 1996 by ''

East Asian History The history of East Asia generally encompasses the histories of China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan from prehistoric times to the present. Each of its countries has a different national history, but East Asian Studies scholars maintain ...

''.

List of lectures

Lecturers have included:

1930s

*1932

W.P. Chen Chen Wei-ping ( zh, 陳維屏), also known as W.P. Chen or Wei-ping Chen (July 30, 1876 – February 23, 1972), was a Chinese diplomat. Early life He studied at Peking Methodist University, Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Michigan an ...

*1933

William Ah Ket William Ah Ket (麥錫祥, 20 June 1876 – 6 August 1936) was a noted Australian barrister. Life With paternal ancestry from Taishan, southern China, Ah Ket was Australia's first barrister of Asian heritage or ethnicity. He was born on 20 June ...

*1934

James Stuart MacDonald James Stuart MacDonald (28 March 187812 November 1952) was an Australian artist, art critic and Director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1929 to 1937. Early life MacDonald was born on 28 March 1878 in Carlton, Melbourne, ...

*1935

*1936

Wu Lien-teh Wu Lien-teh ( zh, t=伍連德, p=Wǔ Liándé, poj=Gó͘ Liân-tek, j=Ng5 Lin4 Dak1; Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Minnan and Cantonese transliteration respectively; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan physician renowned for ...

*1937 Chun-jien Pao *1938 Aldred F. Barker *1939

Stephen Henry Roberts Sir Stephen Henry Roberts CMG (16 February 1901 in Maldon, Victoria – 17 March 1971) was an Australian academic, writer, historian, international analyst, and university vice-chancellor.Schreuder D. M.Roberts, Sir Stephen Henry (1901–1971) ...

1940s

*1940

Howard Mowll Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (2 February 1890 – 24 October 1958) was the Anglican Bishop of Western China from 1925 to 1933, and Archbishop of Sydney from 1933 until his death in 1958. Biography Mowll was born in Dover and attended Dover ...

*1941

W. G. Goddard William George Goddard (1887–1986) was an Australian intellectual, broadcaster, and writer who "spent much of the 1950s and 1960s serving the Nationalist Chinese regime on Taiwan" and wrote books in support of the Chiang Kai-shek regime there. ...

*No lectures 1942-1947 *1948

Douglas Copland Sir Douglas Berry Copland (24 February 189427 September 1971) was an Australian academic and economist. Biography Douglas Copland was born in Otaio, New Zealand in 1894, the thirteenth of sixteen children. He was raised there and lived there ...

*1949 J.K. Rideout

1950s

*1951 C. P. Fitzgerald *1952

H.V. Evatt Herbert Vere "Doc" Evatt, (30 April 1894 – 2 November 1965) was an Australian politician and judge. He served as a justice of the High Court of Australia from 1930 to 1940, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs from 1941 to 194 ...

*1953

Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker (24 February 1909 – 13 February 1994), was a British peer and academic. Education and life in China Lindsay was the son of Sandie and Erica Lindsay, née Storr. On his mother's sid ...

*1954

Mischa Titiev Mischa Titiev (1901–1978) was a Russian Empire-born American anthropologist, whose career was principally at the University of Michigan. His fieldwork concerned Japan, Chile, Peru, and the American Southwest, where his work on Hopi people was par ...

*1955

Hans Bielenstein Hans Henrik August Bielenstein (8 April 1920 − 8 March 2015) was a Swedish sinologist and Dean Lung Professor Emeritus from Columbia University specialising in the history of the Han dynasty. Life Hans Henrik August Bielenstein was born on 8 Ap ...

*1956 Leonard Bell Cox *1957 Otto van der Sprenkel *1958 A. R. Davis *1959 Charles Nelson Spinks

1960s

*1960

Chen Chih-Mai Chen Chih-Mai ( zh, 陳之邁) (1908–1978) was a Republic of China diplomat who served as ambassador to several countries. After graduating from Tsinghua University in 1928, he pursued further studies in the United States, ultimately receiving a ...

*1961 L. Carrington Goodrich *1962

Göran Malmqvist Nils Göran David Malmqvist (6 June 1924 – 17 October 2019) was a Swedish linguist, literary historian, sinologist and translator. He was also a member of the Swedish Academy between 1985 and 2019. Biography Göran Malmqvist was born on 6 Ju ...

*1963 Harry Simon (Sinologist) *1964

Wang Ling (historian) Wang Ling (, 1918–1994) was a Chinese historian and sinologist. He was known for his collaboration with Joseph Needham on the history of science and technology in China. Biography Wang Ling was born in Nantong, China, and graduated in histor ...

*1965 Abraham M. Halpern *1966 J.W. de Jong *1968 John Frodsham *1969

Arthur Huck Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Ital ...

1970s

*1970

Karl August Wittfogel Karl August Wittfogel (; 6 September 1896 – 25 May 1988) was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. He was originally a Marxist and an active member of the Communist Party of Germany, but after the Second World War, he was ...

*1971

Igor de Rachewiltz Igor de Rachewiltz (April 11, 1929 – July 30, 2016) was an Italian historian and philologist specializing in Mongol studies. Igor de Rachewiltz was born in Rome, the son of Bruno Guido and Antonina Perosio, and brother of Boris de Rachewiltz ...

*1972

Eugene Kamenka Eugene Kamenka (4 March 1928 – 19 January 1994) was an Australian political philosopher and Marxism, Marxist scholar. Biography Kamenka was born in Cologne in 1928 and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1937. He was of Russian-Jewish ...

*1973 Liu Ts'un-yan *1974 Jerome Ch'en *1975

Yi-fu Tuan Yi-Fu Tuan (; December 5, 1930 – August 10, 2022) was a Chinese-born American geographer and writer. He was one of the key figures in human geography and an important originator of humanistic geography. Early life and education Born in 193 ...

*1976 Lo Hui-min *1977

Roy Hofheinz Roy Mark Hofheinz (April 10, 1912 – November 22, 1982), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz or "The Judge", was a Texas state representative from 1935 to 1937 ( 44th legislature), county judge of Harris County, Texas from 1936 to 1944, a ...

*1978

Mark Elvin John Mark Dutton Elvin (18 August 1938 – 6 December 2023) was an Australian academic. A professor emeritus of Chinese history at Australian National University, he specialised in the late imperial period. He was also emeritus fellow of St A ...

*1979

Wang Gungwu Wang Gungwu ( zh, t=王賡武, s=王赓武, p=Wáng Gēngwǔ, labels=yes; born 1930), also written Wang Gung Wu, is a Chinese Australian historian, sinologist, and writer specialising in the history of China and Southeast Asia. He has studie ...

1980s

*1980

Fang Chao-ying Fang Chao-ying (Chinese: 房兆楹; pinyin: Fang Zhaoying) (1908–1985) was a Chinese-born American Sinologist, bibliographer, and historian of China best known for the contributions he and his wife, Tu Lien-che, made to the biographical dictionar ...

*1981

Tien Ju-K'ang Tien Ju-K'ang ( zh, t=田汝康, p=Tian Rukang; 1916–2006) was a Chinese anthropologist and historian, best known for his work on the Chinese of Sarawak. Other works concerned the history of Protestantism in China, medical anthropology and the ...

*1982

Alan Thorne Alan Gordon Thorne (1 March 1939 – 21 May 2012) was an Australian born anatomist who is considered an authority on interpretations of Aboriginal Australian origins and the human genome. Thorne first became interested in archaeology and huma ...

*1983

Chan Hok-lam Chan Hok-lam () (1938, Hong Kong – 2011, Seattle) was a Hong Kong-born historian of China. His obituary in the ''Journal of Song-Yuan Studies'' considered that "his works have inescapably influenced the research of nearly all those after him who h ...

*1984 John S. Gregory *1985 Allen S. Whiting *1986

Pierre Ryckmans (writer) Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Austral ...

*1987 Jean Chesneaux *1988

Ross Garnaut Ross Gregory Garnaut (born 28 July 1946, Perth) is an Australian economist, currently serving as a vice-chancellor's fellow and professorial fellow of economics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of numerous academic publications ...

*1989

Stephen FitzGerald (diplomat) Stephen Arthur FitzGerald (born 1938) is a former Australian diplomat. He was List of Australian Ambassadors to China, Australian Ambassador to China, its first to the People's Republic of China, between 1973 and 1976. Life and career Birth, ...

1990s

*1990

Rafe de Crespigny Richard Rafe Champion de Crespigny (born 1936), also known by his Chinese name Zhang Leifu (), is an Australian sinologist and historian. He is an adjunct professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. ...

*1992

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (born 6 July 1935; full spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, shortened as Tenzin Gyatso; ) is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served a ...

*1993

William John Francis Jenner William John Francis "Bill" Jenner (; born 1940) is an English sinologist and translator, specialising in Chinese history and culture, and translator of Chinese literature. Biography From 1958 to 1962, Jenner studied sinology at Oxford and w ...

*1994 Ramon Myers *1995 Martin King Whyte *1996

*1997

Philip Kuhn Philip A. Kuhn (September 9, 1933 – February 11, 2016) was an American historian of China and the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.Fairbank Center for Chinese St ...

*1998 Donald Leslie (academic) *1999 T.H. Barrett

2000s

*2000 Frederick Teiwes *2001

Ezra Vogel Ezra Feivel Vogel (July 11, 1930 — December 20, 2020 ) was an American sociologist who wrote on modern Japan, China, and Korea. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His 1978 book '' Japan as Number One: ...

*2002 Anita Chan *2003 Wen-hsin Yeh *2004

David S. G. Goodman David Stephen Gordon Goodman is Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he is also Emeritus Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations. He is also Emeritus Professor in the ...

*2005

John Minford John Minford (born 22 June 1946) is a British sinologist and literary translator. He is primarily known for his translation of Chinese classics such as 40 chapters of '' The Story of the Stone'', ''The Art of War'', the ''I Ching'' and the ''Tao ...

*2006 Scott Rozelle *2007

Dai Qing Fu Xiaoqing ( zh, s=傅小庆, born 24 August 1941), better known by her pen name Dai Qing ( zh, c=戴晴), is a journalist and activist for China-related issues; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project. She left the Chinese Comm ...

*2008 Jane Macartney (journalist) *2009 none; two in 2010.

2010s

*2010

Kevin Rudd Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and June to September 2013. He held office as the Leaders of the Australian Labo ...

*2010 Børge Bakken *2011

Linda Jaivin Linda Jaivin (born 27 March 1955)''Th ...

*2012

Mark Elliott (historian) Mark C. Elliott (Chinese name: ) is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at Harvard University, where he is Vice Provost for International Affairs. He is also a seminal figure of the school called the New Qing Histor ...

*2013

Michael Nylan Michael Nylan is the Jane K. Sather Chair of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She writes about history, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology of early imperial China. Nylan was born in 1950 and named after Saint Michael ...

*2014 Christine Wong *2015

David Walker (historian) David Robert Walker (born 12 November 1945) is an Australian academic historian who has been the professor of Australian studies at Deakin University since 1991. He is a leading authority in the study of Australian perceptions of Asia. Ear ...

*2016

Jonathan Unger Professor Jonathan Unger (born 1946) is a journalist and an expert on China. His major works include ''The Transformation of Rural China'' and ''The Nature of Chinese Politics from Mao to Jiang'' (as editor). Unger is currently conducting resear ...

*2017

Daniel Kane (linguist) Daniel Kane ( zh, c=康丹, p=Kāng Dān; 25 January 194816 April 2021) was an Australian diplomat and linguist, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the extinct Jurchen and Khitan languages and their scripts. Biography Daniel Kane ...

*2018 Hamashita Takeshi *2019

John Makeham John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Ep ...

2020s

*2020

Benjamin Elman Benjamin A. Elman (born 1946) is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies Emeritus, Princeton University. His teaching and research fields include Chinese intellectual and cultural history, history of science and history of education in late i ...

*2021 none; 2 in 2022 *2022 Evelyn Goh *2022

Rana Mitter Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter (born 11 August 1969) is a British historian and political scientist of Indian descent who specialises in the History of the People's Republic of China. He is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard ...

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