Nick Knight (professor)
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Nicholas Knight was, from 1981 to 2008, Professor of Asian Studies at
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, Brisbane, Australia. Knight obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Queensland (1974), and a Master of Science (in Chinese Politics) (1977) and Doctor of Philosophy (1983), both from the
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, at the
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.Professor Nick Knight
/ref> Professor Knight has published widely on ideology in China, particularly the thought of
Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; traditionally Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Mao Tse-tung. (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in ...
, leader of the
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. He has also published on the way in which globalisation is perceived and debated in contemporary China. Professor Knight has also published on problems of postgraduate education and supervision.


Selected bibliography

*Nick Knight, ''Understanding Australia’s Neighbours: An Introduction to East and Southeast Asia'' (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004). *Nick Knight, ''Marxist Philosophy in China: From Qu Qiubai to Mao Zedong, 1923-1945'' (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005). *Nick Knight, ''Rethinking Mao: Explorations in Mao Zedong’s Thought'' (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007). *Michael Heazle and Nick Knight (eds), ''China-Japan Relations in the Twenty-first Century: Towards a Future Past?'' (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007). *Nick Knight, ''Imagining Globalisation in China: Debates on Ideology, Politics and Culture'' (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008).


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Griffith Asia Institute
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