Rate My Professor Xiang Gao

Xiang teaches courses on Chinese politics and foreign relations, Australian foreign policy, politics in the developing world, and international relations in the Asia Pacific. Her scholarly contributions include several refereed journal articles, such as 'The Law Relating to Hunting and Gathering Rights in the Traditional Territories of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples' co-authored with Dr. Guy Charlton and Associate Professor Daya Kuan (Asia Pacific Law Review, 2017), 'International Norms, Human Rights, and Indigenous Rights: The Legal Recognition of Indigenous Interests in Japan and Taiwan' with Dr. Guy Charlton and Associate Professor Mitsuhiko Takahashi (Asia Pacific Law Review, 2016), 'Norm Localisation in Domestic Practices: An Analysis on Implementing Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Japan' with Associate Professor Satomi Kohyama (Frontier for North East Asian Studies, 2015), and 'China as a ‘Responsible Power’: Altruistic, Ambitious or Ambiguous?' (International Journal of China Studies, 2013). She has presented numerous conference papers on topics including norm incorporation in Chinese environmental governance and China's socialization into international norms. In 2015-2016, she co-authored a successful grant application for 1,900,000 JPY (approximately 24,000 AUD) from the Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Environment Fund, Japan, for the project 'Norm Localisation in Domestic Practices: A Comparative Study of Implementing Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan and China.' Additionally, she has contributed expert commentaries to the Asia Media Centre on topics such as PRC constitution changes, the 19th China CPC Congress, and China’s Double 11 Day. Xiang is currently working on a book manuscript titled China in International Society: The Making of ‘Responsible Power’ Diplomacy.