Mei-fen Kuo

Mei-fen Kuo joined Macquarie University in 2020. She is a Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Culture and History at Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature where she teaches and researches in the area of modern Chinese history with a focus on diaspora identity and transnational mobility. She received research Masters in the discipline of History in Taiwan. She holds a PhD in Social Science from La Trobe University. She had engaged in several projects since 2009, including Unlocking Australia’s Chinese Archive: The political organisation and social experience of the Chinese Australian community, 1909-1939(ARC Linkage), Asia-Pacific Philanthropies: Transnational networks, anti-colonial nationalism, and the emergence of modern Chinese philanthropy, 1850-1949(ARC Discovery) and Enterprising Chinese Australians and the diaspora networks, 1890-1949(ARC DECRA).  She is the author of Making Chinese Australia: Urban Elites, Newspapers & Chinese-Australian Identity During Federation (Monash University Publishing) and Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang 1911-2013 (Australian Scholarly Publishing).