Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
6th Jul – 7th Aug 2026
Application Deadline: 15th Mar 2026

The 2026 Venice-Princeton Summer School with its two tracks in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun is now open for applications. The Summer . . .

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
17-18th Jun 2026
Deadline: 30th Jan 2026

The Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Department at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, warmly invites both members and non-members of the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC) to participate in the 9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics. . . .

Valletta, Malta
4-6th Nov 2026

Deadline: 28th Feb 2026

The Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Malta, with the support of the Confucius Institute at the University of Malta, is pleased to announce the second edition of the Chinese Studies Conference in . . .

Mons, Belgium
16–17th Mar 2026
Deadline: 28th Nov 2025

To mark the tenth anniversary of the inclusion of Chinese as a main language in the curriculum at the University of Mons, the ChinEAsT laboratory of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation – School of International Interpreters (FTI-EII) at the University of Mons is pleased . . .

16th Oct—18th Dec 2025

We are pleased to announce the online course “Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought”, running from Thursday, 16 October to Thursday, 18 December 2025. This seminar is designed in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and National Chengchi University . . .

Bergamo, Italy
15-17th Jan 2026
Deadline: 15th Oct 2025

Building on the research undertaken by the members of the PRIN PNRR ECCO-Italy (Education of Children of Chinese Origin in Italy), this conference seeks to provide a scholarly platform for . . .

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
21–25th Jul 2026
Deadline: 30th Nov 2025

The conference is organized by the EACS in collaboration with the Department of Asian and North African Studies . . .

Deadline: 1st Mar 2026

The Board of the European Association for Chinese Studies is pleased to announce again the EACS Early Career Scholar Award (formerly Young Scholar Award). The purpose of this award is to encourage research in Chinese studies among young scholars, especially, but not exclusively, scholars studying and working at . . .

National University of Singapore
25-26th Jun 2026
Deadline: 15th Oct 2025

Location: National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, 119260
Co-organized by the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature and the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. The conference is also . . .

Salmenkari, T. 2025, Global Ideas, Local Adaptations: Chinese Activism and the Will to Make Civil Society, Edward Elgar.

Exploring the boundaries, fringes, and inner workings of civil society, Taru Salmenkari investigates local forms of political agency in . . .

Lives and Power. Biographical Writing in Sima Qian’s Work and Beyond, in Ancient China and Rome, Coédition Hémisphères/Maisonneuve & Larose, 2025

In this volume derived from an international symposium held at the Collège de France . . .

Montpellier, France
23-25th Mar 2026
Montpellier University Paul Valéry
Deadline: 15th Oct 2025

Organized within the framework of the Chedil research project, funded by the French Research Agency (ANR-23-CE27-0008; https://chedil.hypotheses.org/), this conference invites submissions exploring the history of lexicography, particularly dictionaries involving Asian languages. We also welcome submissions on critical editions of linguistic manuscripts and . . .

Lingjie Ji, Chinese Literature in English Sinology: Cultural Translation of Literary Knowledge, 1807-1901, Edinburgh University Press

In this book, I explore the fascinating Sino-British literary exchanges of the nineteenth century, highlighting how Chinese literature was understood as a knowledge category in the Anglophone world. I also discuss the significance of literary knowledge . . .

Member’s Publication: Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella, and Martin Lavička (Eds.) Olomouc Asian Studies, 2025

“Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia.” Edited by Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella, and Martin Lavička
We are excited to announce . . .

Simon Yongjun Zheng 郑永君 2025, A Study on the history of CICM in China and its Dutch-speaking Sinologist Jozef Mullie, 上海古籍出版社

Newly launched publication in China: A Study on the history of CICM in China and its Dutch-speaking . . .

Vinci R. (ed.) 2024, Navigating the Mediterranean: Through the Chinese Lens: Transcultural Narratives of the Sea Among Land, Firenze University Press

The volume Navigating the Mediterranean: Through the Chinese Lens: Transcultural Narratives of the Sea Among . . .

9-10th Apr 2026
University of Vienna, Austria
Deadline: 15th May 2025

Organized as part of a research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), this symposium invites proposals that address the relationship between performance and postsocialism in twenty-first-century China. Since its initial formulations in the late 1980s and 1990s, the notion of postsocialism . . .

Ngo, K. (2025) Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China. Ann Arbor: Lever Press

New Open Access book on the Treasury of Elementary Learning (Youxue qionglin 幼學瓊林)
The is the first major European . . .

Collective Volume Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation (De Gruyter). This book explores Chinese society through the notion of networks—as a concept, a social reality, and a method—in order to reveal its complexity and fluidity during a pivotal period, . . .

Keller, A., and Chemla, K. (eds.) (2024) Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World. Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History. Book series: Archimedes ed. J. Buchwald. Cham: Springer Nature.

Lauren Walden. (2024) Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai. Hong Kong University Press

Surrealism in China initially gained a foothold in Shanghai’s former French concession during the early 1930s, disseminated by . . .

Deadline: 15th Mar 2025

Thanks to the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the EACS will continue the Travel Grant scheme in 2025. The scheme aims to support researchers who wish to undertake specialised research in one of the major European sinological libraries or museums for Chinese art. Visits should normally . . .

The editors of the EACS Journal are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 5 (2024). This issue contains a special section on ‘Commentary and Exegesis’ in poetry and fiction, history, and thought, stretching from the early imperial period . . .

Ngo, K. (2024) Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong and the Essentials. Ann Arbor: Lever Press

New Open Access book on a seventh-century Chinese anthology for imperial governance

Jana S. Rošker, 2023. Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Cham: Springer.

Preview at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37518-7

Jana Rošker is pleased to announce the publication . . .

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Deadline: 31st Jan 2023

Open positions – Professor(s) / Associate Professor(s) / Assistant Professor(s) in Modern Chinese Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Department/ Institution: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

8th Sep 2022 (All day)
Virtual event, registration required
Deadline: 30th Mar 2022

2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团, CYL), one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize . . .

Deadline: 5th Sep 2021

Between research needs and access to resources – Getting an overview of the situation in different countries in Europe

Despite the growing importance of Asia-related expertise, European researchers and their communities often have only limited access to digital material published on Asian and international markets because researchers are comparatively small in number and dispersed over institutions, countries . . .

The European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) supports and advocates for independent academic research on China and hence disapproves of the People’s Republic of China’s reaction to foreign governments’ and administrations’ diplomatic actions by holding directly responsible academic researchers, their relatives, and their institutions in Europe. As an independent professional academic association of European scholars, EACS trusts in the . . .

Professor Stefano Zacchetti, who died on 29 April 2020 at the age of 52, was one of the world’s most distinguished scholars and teachers in the field of Buddhist Studies. His untimely death has shocked all of us who knew him and were fortunate enough to be his friends and colleagues. An intellectual of the highest order whose boundless . . .