Publications
Book
Roberts, Rosemary A. (2010). Maoist model theatre: The semiotics of gender and sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV.
Book Chapters
Roberts, Rosemary (2018). The politics and aesthetics of rediscovering heroes of the "Red Classics" in Lianhuanhua of the reform era. The making and remaking of China's "Red Classics": politics, aesthetics, and mass culture. (pp. 115-135) edited by Rosemary Roberts and Li Li. Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1w1vmq9.12
Roberts, Rosemary and Li, Li (2018). Introduction. The making and remaking of China's "red classics": politics, aesthetics, and mass culture. (pp. viii-xix) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1w1vmq9.4
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). The politics and aesthetics of rediscovering heroes of the ‘Red Classics’ in Lianhuanhua of the Reform Era. The making and remaking of China’s “Red Classics”. (pp. 113-135) edited by Rosemary Roberts and Li Li. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Roberts, Rosemary and Li, Li (2017). Introduction. The making and remaking of China’s “Red Classics”. (pp. vii-xix) edited by Rosemary Roberts and Li Li. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Roberts, Rosemary (2016). Shang Yang and the Performance of Historical Drama in Reform-Era China. Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century. (pp. 61-78) edited by Li Ruru. Houndmills, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137529442
Roberts, Rosemary A. (2009). Maoist women warriors: Historical continuities and cultural transgressions. Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature. (pp. 139-162) edited by Tao Dongfeng, Yang Xiaobin, Roberts, Rosemary A. and Yang Ling. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.
罗斯玛丽・罗伯特 Roberts, Rosie (2008). 从历史文化视角看样板戏中的中国女英雄. 中国革命与中国文学. (pp. 64-80) edited by 陶东风 Dongfeng Tao. Harbin, China: 黑龙江人民出版社 Heilongjian People's Publishing House.
Roberts, R. A. (1999). Women's studies in literature and feminist literary criticism in contemporary China. Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture. (pp. 225-240) edited by Antonia Finnane and Anne McLaren. Clayton, Vic: Monash Asia Institute.
Journal Articles
Roberts, Rosemary (2019). Art and artists in China since 1949. China Journal, 82, 242-243. doi: 10.1086/703298
Roberts, Rosemary (2018). Review of Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 78 (1), 204-209. doi: 10.1353/jas.2018.0011
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). Women warriors and wartime spies of China. China Quarterly, 230, 543-545. doi: 10.1017/S0305741017000789
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). Listening to China's Cultural Revolution: music, politics and cultural continuities, edited by Paul Clark, Laikwan Pang and Tsan-Huang Tsai. The China Journal, 77, 155-157. doi: 10.1086/689249
Roberts, Rosemary (2015). Reconfiguring Red: Class discourses in the new millennium TV adaptation of The Red Detachment of Women. China Perspectives, 2015 (2), 25-31. doi: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.6698
Roberts, Rosemary (2012). The soul of Beijing opera: Theatrical creativity and continuity in the changing world. China Quarterly, 209 (209), 254-255. doi: 10.1017/S0305741012000215
Roberts, Rosemary and Li, Li (2010). Body, gender and revolution in twentieth-century Chinese literature. Introduction. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 12 (1), 1-5.
Roberts, Rosemary (2010). Gender psychology in the women of The Red Lantern in its evolution from model opera to soap opera. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 12 (1), 93-109.
Roberts, R. and Creese, H. (2008). Gender, text, performance and agency in Asian cultural contexts. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 16, 1-9.
Roberts, R. (2008). Performing gender in Maoist ballet: mutual subversions of genre and ideology in The Red Detachment of Women. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 16, 1-17.
Roberts, Rosie (2007). Review of Fran Martin and Larissa Heinrich (eds). Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, representation and Chinese cultures. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. 290pp. US$48.00, hardcover.. Asian Studies Review, 31 (3), 371-372. doi: 10.1080/10357820701559105
Roberts, Rosemary (2007). Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political [Book Review]. The China Journal, 58, 234-236.
Roberts, Rosemary Ann (2006). Review of Behind the Silence: Chinese voices on Abortion. By Nie Jing-bao. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 8 (1), 157.
Roberts, Rosemary (2006). Gendering the revolutionary body: Theatrical costume in Cultural Revolution China. Asian Studies Review, 30 (2), 141-159. doi: 10.1080/10357820600714231
Roberts, Rosemary (2006). From Zheng Qiang to Jiang Shuiying: The feminization of a revolutionary hero in Maoist theatre's 'Song of the Dragon River'. Asian Theatre Journal, 23 (2), 265-291. doi: 10.1353/atj.2006.0029
Aoyama, Tomoko and Roberts, Rosemary (2006). Introduction. Asian Studies Review, 30 (2), 105-108. doi: 10.1080/10357820600714207
Roberts, R. A. (2005). Abortion as personal experience in Chinese women's fiction: The 'Alienated Maternal Body' in Lu Xing'er's The Sun is Not Out Today. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 7 (1), 63-92.
Roberts, R. A. (2004). Review of Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century. Asian Studies Review, 28 (4), 432-433.
Roberts, Rosemary (2004). Positive women characters in the revolutionary model works of the Chinese cultural revolution: An argument against the theory of erasure of gender and sexuality. Asian Studies Review, 28 (4), 407-422. doi: 10.1080/10357820500032487
Roberts, Rosemary and Liang, Laifong (1996). Review of Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation. The China Journal, 35, 185-186.
Roberts, Rosemary (1995). Chinese Literature Translation Workshop. Asian Studies Review, 18 (3), 134-135. doi: 10.1080/03147539508713028
Roberts, Rosemary A. (1995). Conference review: Chinese literature translation workshop. Asian Studies Review, 18 (3), 134-135.
Conference Papers
Roberts, R. A. (2007). The Chinese woman warrior in the yangbanxi in historical and cultural perspective. International Conference on Chinese Revolution & Chinese Literature, Beijing, China, 27-29 October, 2007. Beijing, China: School of Literature, Capital Normal University.
Roberts, R. A. (2004). Feminising the counter-revolution: An analysis of negative characters in the revolutionary model works of the Chinese cultural revolution. Asia Examined, Canberra, 29 June - 2 July, 2004. Canberra: ASAA Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Generic Documents
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). The Story of Gong and Drum Alley. University of Leeds.
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). The Story of Gong and Drum Lane by Xiang Wang. Leeds University.
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). The Story of Gong and Drum Lane by Xiang Wang. Leeds University.
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). The Orphan of Zhao (yueju) - Act 4. Leeds University.
Roberts, Rosemary (2017). The Story of Gong and Drum Lane by Xiang Wang. Leeds University.
Roberts, Rosemary Ann Review of: Inside a service trade: Studies in contemporary Chinese prose. Australian National University, Contemporary China Centre.