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

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in honour of George Ernest Morrison. 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 "related to Chinese-Australian resistance to White Australia policy, reflecting also the alarm and outrage resulting from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931." Several of the older lectures were reprinted in 1996 by ''

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''.

List of lectures

Lecturers have included: *1932 W.P. Chen *1933

William Ah Ket William (Bill) 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 2 ...

*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, th ...

*1935 W.P. Chen *1936 Wu Lien-teh *1937 Chun-jien Pao *1938 Aldred F. Barker *1939

Stephen Henry Roberts Sir Stephen Henry Roberts Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (16 February 1901 in Maldon, Victoria – 17 March 1971) was an Australian academic, writer, historian, international analyst, and university chancellor (education), vice-chancello ...

*1940

Howard Mowll Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (1890–1958) was the Anglicanism, Anglican Anglican ministry#Bishops, Bishop Diocese of Western China, of Western China from 1925 to 1933, and Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Archbishop of Sydney from 1933 until his ...

*1941 W. G. Goddard *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 Otago, New Zealand in 1894, the thirteenth of sixteen children. He was raised there and lived there ...

*1949 J.K. Rideout *1951

C. P. Fitzgerald Charles Patrick Fitzgerald (5 March 190213 April 1992) was a British people, British historian and writer whose academic career occurred mostly in Australia. He was a professor of East Asian studies with particular focus on China. Early life and ...

*1952

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

*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 si ...

*1954 Mischa Titiev *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 Otto Pierre Nicolas Berkelbach van der Sprenkel (1906 Bussum – 1978 Canberra) was a Dutch bibliographer, political scientist, and historian of China. Early life Born in the Netherlands, van der Sprenkel was raised in the UK and earned First-Cl ...

*1958

A. R. Davis Professor Albert Richard ('Bertie') Davis (1924-1983) was born in Dorking and died in Sydney. The Chair of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney for over a quarter-century, he was a major figure in the development of Asian Studies in Austra ...

*1959 Charles Nelson Spinks *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 Luther Carrington Goodrich (September 21, 1894 – August 10, 1986) was an American sinologist and historian of China. A prolific author, he is perhaps best remembered for his work on the ''Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368–1644''. Life Luthe ...

*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 (王鈴; 王铃), 1917 or 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, ...

*1965

Abraham M. Halpern Abraham "Abe" Meyer Halpern (February 20, 1914, Boston, Massachusetts – October 20, 1985, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a linguist and anthropologist who specialized in Native American Languages. In the wake of World War II he initiated a second ...

*1966

J.W. de Jong Jan Willem (J. W.) de Jong (15 February 1921 – 22 January 2000) was a 20th-century indologist and buddhologist. Birth and Education J. W. de Jong was born in Leiden. He attended primary school and ''gymnasium'' in Leiden, and went on to st ...

*1968 John Frodsham *1969 Arthur Huck *1970 Karl August Wittfogel *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 Marxist scholar. Biography Kamenka was born in Cologne in 1928 and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1937. He was educated at the Sydney T ...

*1973

Liu Ts'un-yan Liu Ts'un-yan 柳存仁 (pinyin Liu Cunren) (1917–2009) was a scholar of Chinese letters and thought, an author of fiction, drama, and screenplays, and a major figure in the development of Asian Studies in Australia. Born in Shandong, he began ...

*1974

Jerome Ch'en Jerome Ch'en (; October 2, 1919 – June 17, 2019) was a Chinese-Canadian historian. Early life and education Ch'en was born as Ch'en Chih-jang in Chengdu, Sichuan, Republic of China in October 1919. He was educated at Tianjin Nankai Universit ...

*1975

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

*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 1934 to 1936, county judge of Harris County, Texas from 1936 to 1944, and mayor of the city ...

*1978 Mark Elvin *1979

Wang Gungwu Wang Gungwu, (; born 9 October 1930) is a Chinese-Singaporean historian, sinologist, and writer. He is a historian of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word ' ...

*1980

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

*1981 Tien Ju-K'ang *1982 Alan Thorne *1983 Chan Hok-lam *1984

John S. Gregory John Stradbroke Gregory (2 August 1923 – 22 June 2021), known as Jack and generally publishing as J.S. Gregory, was an Australian professor of Chinese history noted for his biography on Chiang Kai-shek and British involvement in the Taiping Rebe ...

*1985 Allen S. Whiting *1986 Pierre Ryckmans (writer) *1987

Jean Chesneaux Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Je ...

*1988 Ross Garnaut *1989

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

*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 was an adjunct professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. ...

*1992

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

*1993 William John Francis Jenner *1994 Ramon Myers *1995

Martin King Whyte Martin King Whyte (born 1942) is an American sociology professor emeritus at Harvard University who is best known for his research on contemporary Chinese society in both the Mao and reform eras. He joined the Harvard Faculty in 2000. Previously, h ...

*1996 Geremie Barmé *1997 Philip Kuhn *1998 Donald Leslie (academic) *1999 T.H. Barrett *2000 Frederick Teiwes *2001 Ezra Vogel *2002

Anita Chan Anita or ANITA may refer to: Arts * ''Anita'' (1967 film), an Indian film * ''Anita'' (2009 film), an Argentine film * ''Anita'' (2021 film), a Hong Kong film *'' Anita: Swedish Nymphet'', a 1973 erotic film People *Anita (given name), people w ...

*2003 Wen-hsin Yeh *2004 David S. G. Goodman *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 Scott Douglas Rozelle (, born 1955) is an American development economist currently serving as a researcher at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and one of the co-directors of the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) at Sta ...

*2007

Dai Qing Fu Xiaoqing (, born 24 August 1941), better known by her pen name Dai Qing (), is a journalist and activist for China-related issues; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project. She left the Chinese Communist Party after the bloodsh ...

*2008 Jane Macartney (journalist) *2009 none; two in 2010. *2010 Kevin Rudd *2010 Børge Bakken *2011 Linda Jaivin *2012

Mark Elliott (historian) Mark C. Elliott (Chinese name: ) is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese History, Chinese and Inner Asia, Inner Asian History at Harvard University, where he is Vice Provost for International Affairs. He is also one of the scholars who form pa ...

*2013 Michael Nylan *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. Early ...

*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 researc ...

*2017 Daniel Kane (linguist) *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 E ...

*2020

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

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

Rana Mitter Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter (born 1969), known as Rana Mitter, is a British historian and political scientist of Indian origin who specialises in the history of republican China. He is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at t ...

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