David Walker is Alfred Deakin professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University and BHP Billiton chair of Australian Studies at Peking University, Beijing.

His prize-winning history, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850–1939 (UQP, 1999), has been translated into Chinese and Hindi. His memoir, Not Dark Yet: a personal history (Giramondo, 2011), has been translated into Chinese by Professor Li Yao and published by the People’s Literature Publishing House, Beijing.