Miscellaneous Announcements

Vacant Position: Lecturer in Chinese Studies

Bangor, Wales, UK
Deadline: 20th May 2020
Applications are invited for the above full-time, permanent post in the Modern Languages and Cultures section of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and inspiring lecturer, able to design, convene and teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Chinese Cultural Studies, including the English-Chinese translation component of our MA in Translation Studies. S/he will also have the ability to supervise postgraduate researchers in Chinese Cultural Studies and will contribute to the School’s ambition and international standing in terms of high-quality

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Notice about the new Coronavirus pandemic (Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19)

As of today (April 4, 2020), we are still planning for the EACS 2020 conference to go ahead as scheduled. However, the board of the European Association for Chinese Studies will continue to monitor the developing pandemic situation and will make a final decision near the end of May. This decision will be publicly announced by June 1 at the latest.
In the meantime, we encourage participants with accepted papers to continue registering for the conference, but we recommend holding off on booking travel and accommodations until after June 1. Should the conference end up being cancelled, registration fees will be refunded.

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CCK Foundation Library Travel Grant 2020

Deadlines: 20th Mar & 20th Oct 2020
Thanks to the support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the EACS will continue to fund in 2020, one-week visits for specialized research in Sinological libraries or for research in one of the major European museums for Chinese art, depending on the availability of funds. Applications received before the two deadlines of March 20 and October 20 will be considered within 3 weeks after receipt. Applicants should be Sinologists based permanently in Europe, preferably paid-up members of the EACS. Non-members will be considered, especially in case of students and young scholars (up to 35 years), if accompanied by a recommendation letter from an EACS member. Applications for Travel Grants are restricted to two applications by the same applicant, with first-time applicants

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Upcoming Conference: Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present… and Future?

Newcastle University, UK
5-6th Jun 2020
If Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing (流浪北京, 1990) is considered to mark the birth of independent cinema in the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China) that cinema will be celebrating its 30th birthday in 2020. But if independence is defined as meaning production without government permission, China’s first film law in 2017 was understood by many as making that practice illegal. The intervening decades saw the emergence of a broader film culture supporting this filmmaking, from film festivals to film criticism, but also this culture’s metamorphosis under pressure from both state and market. Can we still speak of independent cinema in the PRC, and if so, what does it mean to do so?

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