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Teaching Chinese politics in Australia Polarised views leave academics between a rock and a hard place I was making small talk with a medical technician during a health check a few months ago. After hearing I was a senior lecturer teaching Chinese politics at the University of Sydney, she commented: 'It must be very hard for you.' My first thought was that she meant it must have been hard to teach online during the pandemic lockdown. But then she asked: 'How do you manage to overcome your bias?' I am an academic of Chinese background in Australia. So am I necessarily biased in my approach to Chinese politics? Is it indeed possible that my upbringing in China has made me a blind supporter of the Chinese system? Or has my embrace of liberal values turned me into a militant 'China basher'? continued overpage...
Minglu Chen University of Sydney
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vol. 2 no. 4
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