Mobo Gao

Professor Mobo Gao

Professor of Chinese Studies

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Professor Gao's research interest includes studies of rural China, contemporary Chinese politics & culture, Chinese migration to Australia and Chinese language. Professor Gao's publications include four monographs and numerous book chapters and articles. One of his books, the critically acclaimed Gao Village, is a case study of the village that he came from. His latest book The Battle of China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution is a reassessment of the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution.

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  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2022 Co-Supervisor Apropos of ideology: a critique of relevance on official Chinese to English translation of government and party documents Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Ningfei Dang
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2021 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Socialist Solutions to Communication for Development Challenges: Revolutionary Lessons in Mao-era China Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yinhao Zhang
    2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Sino-Australian Relations, 1949-1972: Influences and Undercurrents Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr David Alan Hankinson
    2015 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Problematising the Public Sphere in China: A Case Study of the Red Cross Society of China Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Bingling Wei
    2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Environmental Governance in China: Creating Ecologically Civilised Environmental Subjects Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time James Peter Francis Oswald
    2012 - 2014 Principal Supervisor The Effectiveness and Appropriateness of the Use of Contemporary Chinese Popular Literature in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: An Emperical Study in an Australian University Setting Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Xiuming Chen
    2011 - 2017 Principal Supervisor The Rise and Fall of Australian Maoism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xiao Xiao Xie
    2009 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Migrant Workers' Old-age Insurance Policy in China: Beyond an Economic Development Perspective Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Shurong Han
    2009 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Media Transparency in China: A Critique of the Party-State Rhetoric and Market Discourses Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Baohui Xie
  • Other Supervision Activities

    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor NGOs in China the university of adelaide - Doctorate Full Time Bingling Wei
  • Position: Professor of Chinese Studies
  • Phone: 83135803
  • Email: mobo.gao@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83133772
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Kenneth Wills, floor 6
  • Org Unit: School of Social Sciences

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