Dr Guy Ramsay
Chinese Discipline
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56239
Researcher biography
Dr Guy Ramsay's current research interests include discourse analysis and narrative analysis in mental illness and related disorders in China and the Chinese diaspora.
Books
Ramsay, Guy Chinese stories of drug addiction: beyond the opium dens. New York, NY United States: Routledge, 2016. doi:10.4324/9781315670904
Ramsay, Guy Mental illness, dementia and family in China. New York, NY, United States: Routledge, 2013. doi:10.4324/9780203071212
Ramsay, G. Shaping Minds: A Discourse Analysis of Chinese-Language Community Mental Health Literature. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008.
Book Chapters
Ramsay, Guy (2017). The Chinese diaspora in Torres Strait. In Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata (Ed.), The Chinese diaspora in Torres Strait: cross-cultural connections and contentions on Thursday Island 2nd ed. (pp. 53-79) Acton, ACT Australia: ANU Press.
Shnukal, A., Ramsay, G. M. and Nagata, Y. (2004). Introduction. In Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata (Ed.), Navigating boundaries: The Asian diaspora in the Torres Strait (pp. 2-11) Pandanus Books: Canberra, Australia.
Ramsay, G. M. (2004). The Chinese diaspora in Torres Strait: Cross-cultural connections and contentions on Thursday Island. In A. Shnukal, G. Ramsay and Y. Nagata (Ed.), Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait (pp. 53-79) Canberra: Pandanus Books.
Shnukal, A. and Ramsay, G. M. (2004). Tidal flows: An overview of Torres Strait Islander-Asian contact. In Shnukal, A., Ramsay, G. and Nagata, Y. (Ed.), Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait (pp. 33-51) Canberra: Pandanus Books.
Journal Articles
Ramsay, Guy (2017) Taiwanese stories of dementia. Modern China, 43 2: 217-243. doi:10.1177/0097700416664486
Ramsay, Guy (2015) Drug addiction as morality tale: behind China's anti-drugs campaign. Asian Currents, .
Ramsay, Guy (2010) Mainland Chinese family caregiver narratives in mental illness: Disruption and continuity. Asian Studies Review, 34 1: 83-103. doi:10.1080/10357820903568219
Ramsay, Guy M. (2009) Chinese mental illness narratives: Controlling the spirit. Communication and Medicine: An interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society, 6 2: 189-198. doi:10.1558/cam.v6i2.189
Jiang, Wenying and Ramsay, Guy (2005) Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: An exploratory study. Language Learning and Technology, 9 2: 47-63.
Ramsay, G. (2003) Virtual learning communities beyond the classroom: perceptions of tertiary Chinese language and non-language learners. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Series S 17: 3-24.
Ramsay, G. (2003) Cherbourg's Chinatown: creating an identity of place on an Australian Aboriginal settlement. Journal of Historical Geography, 29 1: 109-122. doi:10.1006/jhge.2002.0447
Guy, Ramsay and Shnukal, Anna (2003) ‘Aspirational Chinese’: achieving community prominence on Thursday Island, Northeast Australia. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 12 3: 337-359. doi:10.1177/011719680301200304
Ramsay, G. M. (2001) Contentious connections: Removals, legislation and Indigenous-Chinese contacts. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 4 1: 1-6.
Ramsay, G. M. (2001) What are they getting at? Placement of important ideas in lengthy Chinese newstext: A contrastive analysis with Australian newstext. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 24 2: 17-34.
Ramsay, G. M. (2001) Myth, moment and the challenge of identities: Stories from Australians of Indigenous and Chinese ancestry. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 22 3: 263-277. doi:10.1080/07256860120093993
Ramsay, G. M. (2001) Rhetorical styles and newstext: A contrastive analysis of rhetorical relations in Chinese and Australian news-journal text. ASAA e-Journal of Asian Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1: 1-16.
Ramsay, G. M. (2000) The family and cultural identity in Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Chinese ancestry: a rural-urban divide. Journal of Family Studies, 6 2: 199-213.
Guy, Ramsay (2000) Linearity in rhetorical organisation: a comparative cross-cultural analysis of newstext from the People’s Republic of China and Australia.. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10 2: 241-256. doi:10.1111/j.1473-4192.2000.tb00150.x
Conference Papers
Ramsay, Guy (2004). (Mis)communicating mental health: The discursive form of Chinese-language psychoeducational literature. In: Robert Cribb, Asia Examined: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2004, Canberra, Australia. 15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, Canberra, Australia, (1-22). 29 June-2 July 2004.
Ramsay, G. M. (1999). We can do more than I: Perceptions of collaborative learning groups in the foreign language classroom. In: Effective Courses/Effective Teaching at University/Reflection on Practice/Practice on Reflection. Effective Courses,Effective Teaching at University, Women's College, University of Queensland, St Lucia, (1-11). 1-2 Nov 1999.