Li Yao is a Professor at the International Business Training Institute, Beijing and holds visiting professorships at the Australian Studies Centre, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and at Western Sydney University. He has translated over 60 works including nearly 40 by Australian writers. In 1986, he became a member of the Chinese Writers' Association and was recognised in 2014 by the University of Sydney which awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. In 2019 he also gained an honorary Doctor of Letters from Western Sydney University. He won awards from the Australia China Co David Walker is an Australian historian who holds Honorary Professorships at the University of Melbourne, Western Sydney University, and Deakin University. From 2013-2016 he was the inaugural BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University, Beijing. For many years he has studied Australia's responses to Asia. His books include Anxious Nation: Australia and the rise of Asia, 1850-1939 ; Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region, and (with Louise Johnson and Tanja Luckins), The Story of Australia: a new History of People and Place .