Jan Ryan Associate Professor School of International, Culture and Community Studies Edith Cowan University

Jan Ryan is a leading writer and researcher in the area of Chinese Australian Studies. Her widely acclaimed book Ancestors: Chinese in Colonial Australia was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book of the Year Award in 1995 and has been translated into Chinese for the China market. She has recently published a book on Chinese women in Australia that is contextualised within global migratory patterns, transnationalism and complex contemporary settlement experiences. The book challenges existing dialogues on gender and ethnicity and adds a new dimension to the study of Chinese transmigration and women as migrants. Ryan was a Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Campus in March-April 2000 where she presented her findings on Chinese women as transnational women, and engaged with scholars in this field of inquiry. She has also published extensively on equity in women's sport and minority group rights in Australia and South Africa.

Books

Jan Ryan, (2003) Chinese Women and the Global Village: an Australian Site, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.

Jan Ryan, G. Bolton, R. Rossiter (eds), (2003), Cultural History of Western Australia,University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands.

Jan Ryan and Edwin Jaggard (eds), (1997), Perspectives on Sport and Society, Centre for Western Australian Studies, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands.

Books Chapters

Jan Ryan and K. Harris (1998), 'Chinese immigration to Australia and South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative Control' in E. Sinn (ed) The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas, University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong.

Jan Ryan (1997), 'Chinese Australian History' in W. Hudson & G. Bolton (eds), Creating Australia: Changing Australian History, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

Journal Articles

Jan Ryan (2002) 'Chinese women as transnational migrants: gender and class in global migration narrations', International Migration Review, 40, no2.

Jan Ryan (2001) 'The yin and yang of cultural leadership: issues of gender and ethnicity in power and strategic management', International Review of Women and Leadership, No. 7.

Jan Ryan (2000) 'Forging a niche for Chinese women: reconceptualising Chinese migration and settlement patterns', Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies, No 3 Sept.

Jan Ryan (2000), 'No Man's Land: Re-orienting Citizenship for Chinese Malaysian Women in Australia', Journal of Western Australian Studies, vol.21.

Jan Ryan (1999), 'The Stained Glass Ceiling: Issues of gender and ethnicity for Chinese women in the workplace', International Review of Women and Leadership, vol.5, no.2.

Jan Ryan (1999), 'The Birmingham Four: Affirmative action in South African women's sport', International Journal of Sports History, vol. 16, no.1 March.

Jan Ryan (1999), 'She lives with a Chinaman'. Orienting white women in the courts of law' Journal of Australian Studies, no.60.

1. Jan Ryan, (2003) Chinese Women and the Global Village: an Australian Site, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.

2. Jan Ryan (2002) 'Chinese women as transnational migrants: gender and class in global migration narrations', International Migration Review, 40, no2.

2. Jan Ryan (1999), 'The Stained Glass Ceiling: Issues of gender and ethnicity for Chinese women in the workplace', International Review of Women and Leadership, vol.5, no.2.

3. Jan Ryan (1999), 'The Birmingham Four: Affirmative action in South African women's sport' International Journal of Sports History, vol. 16, no.1 March.

4. Jan Ryan (1999), ''She lives with a Chinaman': Orienting white women in the courts of law' Journal of Australian Studies, no.60.

5. Jan Ryan and K. Harris (1998), 'Chinese immigration to Australia and South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative Control' in E. Sinn (ed) The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas, University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong.

6. Jan Ryan (1997), 'Chinese Australian History' in W. Hudson and Bolton (eds), Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Sydney, Allen and Unwin.

7. Jan Ryan (1995), Ancestors: Chinese in Colonial Australia. Fremantle, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, (ISBN1 86368 107 8, 191 pages). [Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Book of the Year Award 1995]. Translated into Chinese in 1997.

8. Jan Ryan (1995) (ed), Chinese in Australia and New Zealand: A Multidisciplinary Approach. New Delhi, London, Wiley Eastern Ltd.

9. Jan Ryan (1995). It's a Crime! Chinese Immigrants and the Law' in P. Macgregor (ed.) Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific. Melbourne, Museum of Chinese Australian History.

10. Jan Ryan and B. Stoddart (1994), Forgotten Minorities: the place of the Indian and Chinese communities in South Africa's shift towards a post-apartheid society, Indian Ocean for Peace Studies, University of Western Australia, (ISBN 1863423494).

Jan Ryan participates on a broad range of advisory boards including the expert advisory panel for the National Council for the Centenary of Federation Grant 'The Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation', a collaborative project headed by La Trobe University. She also participated on the steering Committee of the 'Thematic Survey of Sites of Chinese Australian History', a National Trust Grant. She has carried out collaborative research and studies at the University of California Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles campuses, where she worked with esteemed academics in the field of Asian migration studies. This project was based on a $10000 grant from Edith Cowan University titled 'A Comparative Study of Equity and Gender Issues in Migration Policies and Practices in Australia and the United States' and the outcomes provide a foundation for the study outlined in this application.

A further $17000 grant from Edith Cowan University from 1997-1999 enabled Jan Ryan to interview and facilitate interviews with fifty women of Chinese descent in Australia. These interviews are distinctive in that they are carried out in the dialect/language of the interviewees' choice, thus enabling those without competent English skills to express their opinions. These tapes are translated and transcribed and form a substantial archival resource for future researchers.

Jan Ryan's concern for inequities in migration, refugee and asylum seeker policies and procedures in Australia led to her active involvement on the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations Association (WA) and the National Committee on Human Rights Education (WA).

Other Committees include:

Advisory Committee Studies in Western Australian History

Advisory Committee: Centre for Western Australian History.

Advisory Committee MERC, Curtin University.

Migration Network, UWA.

Jan Ryan has presented papers on issues of migration in The People's Republic of China, The Republic of China, the Philippines, Europe, United States, and the Australian cities of Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth over the last five years. She was an invited speaker at an International Conference held at Academica Sinica, Taiwan 2001 and presented a keynote address at an international conference at the University of New South Wales.

Ms Ann Rule (Scholarship holder), - PhD. 'Keep the Money under the Soap'. Constructing the Simulacra: Identity construction and English Migrants in Western Australia.

Ms Damayanthie Eluwawalage (Scholarship holder) PhD 'Gender, Power and Class: a history of clothing in Colonial Western Australia'.

Ms Judith Clayden, (Staff, ECU), PhD. 'Contesting Identity, Power and Status in Feminized Occupations: an historical Case Study of Library Paraprofessionals in Australia.

Ms Lisa Wake, MA. 'Contested Landscapes: A History of Parks and Gardens in Colonial Western Australia'.