Dr Daniel Kane is Professor of Chinese and Head of the Asian Studies Department
at Macquarie University. He was twice visiting scholar at the Department of
Chinese at Peking University, and was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian
Embassy in Beijing in 1996. Dr Kane has previously held a lectureship in Chinese
at the University of Melbourne. He has broad interests in the field of Chinese
Studies, including linguistics, politics, intellectual history and current affairs.