Miscellaneous Announcements Archive

Positions in ERC and Dutch Research Council (NWO) project on Social History of Material Infrastructures

Belgium and the Netherlands
Deadline: 15th May 2022
The first batch of positions in both the ERC and Dutch Research Council (NWO) project on the social history of material infrastructures have now all been advertised. This concerns seven posts, four at KU Leuven and three at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. Candidates interested in any of these positions should apply to each position separately. Please share widely and encourage suitable candidates to apply. The deadline for most positions is May 15, 2022.

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Vacant Position: SDAC Teaching and Research Fellow (Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in), China Studies (and/or Taiwan, Hong Kong)

Erlangen, Germany
Deadline: 18th Apr 2022
The Bavarian Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC)” at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to fill the following position: SDAC Teaching and Research Fellow (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in) (100%, TV-L E 13, fixed term contract until 30 September 2027)The position as SDAC Research and Teaching Fellow serves to further develop the anthropologically oriented multi-disciplinary SDAC study program through teaching with a focus on China (and/or Taiwan, Hong Kong).

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Vacant Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Chinese language and modern/contemporary literary studies

University of Naples
Deadline: 13th Apr 2022
The University of Naples “L’Orientale” seeks to fill a position of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Chinese language and modern/contemporary literary studies. Here below you can find the official advertisement for the job opening (see p. 3, position n. 3): https://www.unior.it/ateneo/view_news/29471/5683/1/anno-2022-procedura-selettiva-per-il-reclutamento-di-n9-ricercatori-a-tempo-determinato-di-tipo-b-ai-sensi-dell-art24-della-legge-240-2010-dm-856-2020-daam-dsus-dllc.html For online applications

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Upcoming Workshop: Legacy of the Tsinghua Logic School

21st Apr 2022
Venue: Hybrid 
The Joint Research Center for Logic, Tsinghua University
In 1926, recently graduated from Columbia University, Jin Yuelin came back to China and founded the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University. With new appointments of Shen Youding and Wang Xianjun in subsequent years, the logic group grew very fast and attracted many young talents. One prominent student of Jin Yuelin was Wang Hao, who later took his PhD degree at Harvard and became a well-known logician worldwide. This pioneering history was recorded in a recent article by Jan Vrhovski: “The Qinghua Logic School: Mathematical Logic at Qinghua University in

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Two Vacant Positions: University Instructors of Chinese

Helsinki, Finland
Deadline: 15th Mar 2022
The University of Helsinki is one of the leading multidisciplinary universities in the world. Our research and education are world-class, as shown by several indicators. We work daily to improve teaching and promote lifelong learning, and believe passionately in the power of thought to change attitudes, people and society – for a better world. The University of Helsinki Language Centre https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/language-centre is one of Finland’s largest language training institutes in terms of both staff numbers and the curriculum. The Language Centre is responsible for the language and communication studies required for academic

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Call for Submissions – EACS Young Scholar Award 2022

Deadline Extended: 15th Mar 2022
The Board of the European Association for Chinese Studies is pleased to announce again the EACS Young Scholar Award (YSA). The purpose of this award is to encourage research in Chinese studies among young scholars, especially, but not exclusively, scholars studying and working at European institutions. The Young Scholar Award is made possible through the generous support by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. It was first awarded during the 2004 EACS biennial conference in Heidelberg. Many papers submitted by shortlisted candidates in previous competitions have now appeared as peer-reviewed publications. The next

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Call for Papers: PhD Thesis Workshop

Online | Zoom
5–6th May 2022
Deadline: 21st Feb 2022
The Economic History Society is pleased to invite submissions to its PhD Thesis Workshop, to be held for the second year via Zoom in May 2022. Participants will share thesis papers or chapters-in-progress with fellow doctoral colleagues in economic and social history, and give and receive feedback on each other’s work. The workshop aims to provide opportunities for PhD students to develop their research and peer reviewing skills, as well as the chance to build horizontal networks with fellow early career scholars. Last year’s inaugural workshop was received positively and participants welcomed the opportunity to receive detailed feedback on their research

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Call for Papers – Conference: Categories, Digital Reconfiguration and Mobility in China

University of Copenhagen, Denmark
18-20th May 2022
Deadline: 15th Feb 2022
The conference is a joint opening conference for the Network Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China (CatCh) and the Moving Data – Moving People (MDMP) project on mobility and China’s social credit system. The conference aims to provide an open interdisciplinary forum for discussing the potential of categorization and configuration as original and innovative approaches to study social life, relations, practices,

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International Conference on the HOLIC Workshop 2022 “Textual Analysis as the Basis for Understanding Chinese Logical Thought”

Online | Tsinghua University
15–17th Jan 2022
The logic research centre of Tsinghua University warmly invites you to join us in attending the “Textual Analysis as the Basis for Understanding Chinese Logical Thought” international workshop. Keynote speeches will be delivered by Jana S. Rošker, Christoph Harbsmeier, Yiu-ming Fung, Fenrong Liu, Dirk Meyer, and Joachim Gentz in order of presentation. For the full program, please check our workshop website: External Link…

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Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships at the IKGF “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication”

University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Deadline: 15th Jan 2022
The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication in East Asia and Europe. Strategies of Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” (IKGF) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg offers 1 post-doctoral fellowship for a duration of 4 months. The Research Consortium is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and conducts research from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. The Consortium attempts to uncover the historical foundations of prognostication, which – if in a different

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Visiting Professorship in Cultural History of the Ancient World

Deadline: 31st Jan 2022
Start Date: 1st Oct 2022
The Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten (MZAW) invites applications for a Visiting Professorship in Cultural History of the Ancient World for either one or two years, starting on October 1, 2022. The Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten (MZAW) is the interfaculty research network of ancient studies at LMU Munich. The Center supports cooperation across disciplinary boundaries, helps to advance joint research initiatives, and fosters networking among and beyond Munich’s departments, collections and institutions concerned with the ancient world. Established in 2011, the MZAW Visiting Professorship has been awarded to a series of renowned scholars from all over the world (https://www.mzaw

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Upcoming Event: “A decade of China’s media going global: issues and perspectives”

Online | Paris Aubervilliers
31st May 2022
Deadline: 15th Feb 2022
The year 2012 stands as a significant milestone in China’s government-led external communication activities. It was in early 2012 that Beijing launched television broadcasting and production centers in Washington, DC, USA (CCTV America, now CGTN America) and Nairobi, Kenya (CGTN Africa). Later in the year, it began publishing an African weekly edition of the English-language newspaper China Daily — European and Asian weekly editions launched in 2010. Set in motion under the leadership of President Hu Jintao, China’s global media expansion, part of a larger “going out” policy for the economy in general, sought

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Call for Papers: Gender Identities in Early and Premodern Text Cultures

Online | Oxford, UK
Jan–Mar 2022
Deadline: 7th Jan 2022
The Early Text Cultures research group based at the University of Oxford invites abstracts for its research seminar in Hilary Term, running from January to March 2022, which will be on ‘Gender Identities in Early and Premodern Text Cultures.’ As is often recognised, the dominant voices in the premodern world have been men’s voices. Yet textual sources––from the literary to the administrative––are critical to recovering the heterogeneity that in many cases characterised ancient and premodern societies. Women were inspiring muses; but they also expressed themselves in poetry and participated in cultural productions. In some cases, there is

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Vacant Position: Associate Professor, Classical Chinese and Medieval China

Oxford, UK
Deadline: 10th Feb 2022
The Faculty of Oriental Studies and St. Anne’s College are recruiting an Associate Professor of Classical Chinese and Medieval China with outstanding research on China between the Han and Ming periods and a strong commitment to and experience in the teaching of Classical Chinese. You will have a doctorate in the study of medieval China, a strong publication record appropriate to your career stage and an ongoing research agenda in the study of medieval China. We welcome applicants working on all aspects of medieval China including its literature, history, culture, religion, philosophy, art etc. The number of academics, postdocs and doctoral students working on premodern China

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Call for Papers: Making Gender in China – Third Biennial Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender

29th Mar–3rd May 2022
Online | York University, Toronto
Deadline: 7th Jan 2022
We are pleased to announce that the Third Biennial Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE) will be hosted virtually by York University, Toronto. 2hr panels will be held weekly as a virtual conference series on Tuesdays, Toronto time (EST, UTC-5). The theme of the conference will be ‘Making Gender in China.’ We seek to explore how gender is enacted, negotiated, and disrupted through objects and in the process of making them. How does scrutinizing things (a poem, a cookbook, a translation, a sword, a piece of furniture, noodles,

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Professorship for Cultural and Social Anthropology with a focus on East Asia (W2 / Associate Professor)

Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Deadline: 22nd Dec 2021
The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Professorship for Cultural and Social Anthropology with a focus on East Asia (W2 / Associate Professor) at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia in the Department of Classical World and Asian Cultures. The professorship is to be filled by 01.10.2022 on a fixed-term basis until 30.09.2027. The professorship is planned as part of the Elite Master’s degree programme ‘Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures’ (SDAC) which was established in

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Open position: Research associate / Doctoral student (m/f/d): EXC 2020 Temporal Communities

Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Deadline: 14th Nov 2021
The Cluster of Excellence 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” aims to create a new theoretical and methodological take on literature in a global perspective. Introducing the notion of ‘temporal communities’, the Cluster investigates the ways in which literature reaches out through space and time, establishing complex temporalities and extensive transcultural and transtemporal networks as it interacts with other arts and media. The Cluster’s research is conducted within five Research Areas: 1. Competing

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Vacant Position: Head of Chinese Section – University Library

University of Cambridge, UK
Deadline: 28th Nov 2021
Cambridge University Libraries, one of the world’s greatest research libraries, seeks a Head of its Chinese Section to manage, oversee and develop all its collections in the Chinese language. The Chinese Section is one of four within the current African and Asian Collections group, within a new Department of World Collections. The role-holder will be responsible for development of modern Chinese language collections to support teaching and research in the languages, literatures and cultures of China, both across the University, and in the wider world of scholarship. This includes the management and conservation of the existing collections, setting content

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Lecture Series 2021/2022 New Perspectives on Modernity in China

Online | University of Göttingen
Since the nineteenth century, China is offering perspectives on modernity that are often unexpected and therefore challenge Western assumptions about the nature of modernity. In this lecture series, we will look at Chinese history, philosophy, religion, politics etc. presenting current research that is addressing unsettling questions triggered by these developments.
Peng Guoxiang: The Understanding and Practice of “Five Religions” in Early 20th Century China: The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)
Date & Time Nov 12, 2021 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Please register individually for each event:

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In Memoriam
Jacques Pimpaneau (1934–2021)

On 3 November 2021, the French sinologist Jacques Pimpaneau died in Paris at the age of 87. Born in Paris in 1934, Jacques Pimpaneau started studying Chinese in 1954 (Langues O’), and from 1958 to 1960 he studied at Peking University, as one of the first French students who obtained a scholarship for China. After his return to Europe, he studied at Oxford University. From 1963 to 1999, he was professor of Chinese literature at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). From 1968 to 1971, he was detached to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1972, he created the Museum Kwok On in Paris. Among his major works are Promenade au jardin des poiriers. L’Opéra chinois classique, Éditions Kwok On, 1983; Chine: Histoire

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Virtual Lecture: “The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History”

Speaker: Ruth Mostern, Pittsburgh University
12th Nov 2021
Online | 4:00 pm CET
This talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021). The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times. The book demonstrates that the history of the relationship between people and the river is a history of soil as much as it is a history of water, and that some of the most important episodes in Yellow River history transpired on the semi-arid lands of the Loess Plateau, far from the riverbed

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Call for Papers: Online International Workshop “Premodern Chinese Literature as an Archive of Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Life Culture”

2–4th Jun 2022
Deadline: 15th Jan 2022
Hosted by the Institute of East and South Asian Cultural Studies, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (Germany), the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE-PSL) and Research Center on East Asian Civilizations (CRCAO), Paris (France) and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona (Italy)
Traditional Chinese vernacular literature, in particular fictionalized narrative (xiaoshuo 小說) and singing drama (xiqu 戲曲), including prosimetric forms (shuochang 說唱), has often been

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Call for Applications: Ph.D. position in Chinese Studies

Sapienza University of Roma
Deadline: 27th Oct 2021
The Doctorate of Asian and African Civilization of Sapienza University of Roma offers a Ph.D. position in Chinese Studies related to Ancient Chinese Lexicon. In particular, the project is focused on the evolution of a portion of the Chinese geographical and zoological lexicon and on the influence that other languages had on Chinese zoogeographical knowledge from the 8th and the 14th century. It aims at the development of the digital resource named Chinese Toponyms Database (CTD), which contained toponyms (but not only toponyms) indicating territories, and countries outside the Chinese borders. The implementation of the project must consist of the optimization

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In Memoriam
Léon Vandermeersch

7 January 1928 – 17 October 2021
On 17 October 2021, Léon Vandermeersch, one of France’s most renown sinologists, passed away. Léon Vandermeersch started his career in Vietnam as secondary school teacher and later as curator of the Louis Finot Museum from 1951 to 1958. After appointments in Kyoto and Hong Kong, he obtained his PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1975 with a study of Chinese classical institutions. He became professor at the Université Paris-VII, and, since 1993, he was professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études until his retirement in 1993. He was also director of the Maison franco-japonaise in Tokyo (1981–1984) and director of the École française d’Extrême-Orient (1989–1993). Among his most well-known works are Wangdao: ou, La voie royale

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Call for Researcher Position: Chinese Ecolinguistics (2022–2025)

Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Position: Researcher (Assistant Professor)
Type of contract: Research position, with limited teaching duties (60 hours frontal teaching/year). Length of contract: 3 years, expected start between January and February 2022. Research duties: The Researcher will play a key role in prototyping a Toolkit for Sustainability Discourse Analysis (ToSuDA). ToSuDA’s purpose is to assist in the characterization of discourses vs different sustainability paradigms, by indexing textual and propositional features based on their proximity to different attitudes toward (a) human welfare and (b) environmental sustainability. In consideration of China’s emergent role in the global environmental

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Call for Papers: Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies

2022 Edition
Deadline: 31st Mar 2022
The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 45, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2022‒23. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review. The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has been published since 1978 by the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. It serves as an international forum for academic publications on East Asian research. To get an idea of the scope of topics and research approaches that have received coverage in the Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, please view the PDF files of back issues at

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Vacant Position: Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese and Sinophone Studies

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Review begins: 5th Nov 2021
The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (http://asianstudies.unc.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track position in Modern Chinese and Sinophone Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2022. Candidate should have a Ph.D. (or foreign equivalent) granted, or nearly completed in modern Chinese and Sinophone studies, Chinese language and literature, cultural studies, or a related field. Hired candidates with a doctorate can anticipate an initial appointment of Assistant Professor. Hired candidates with a doctorate nearly completed can anticipate an initial appointment of

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Call for Papers: 2021 ISSCO Regional Workshop “Effects of COVID on the Chinese Diaspora in Europe and Africa”

5th Dec 2021 | Online
Deadline: 15th Oct 2021
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the board of ISSCO has decided to arrange for three simultaneous regional workshops according to different time zones under the common theme of “The effects of COVID-19 on the Chinese diasporas worldwide”. Presenters are preferably ISSCO members, but non-members will also be eligible to submit paper proposals and/or participate as audience. ISSCO encourages all participants to become members of ISSCO to support our non-profit academic association.
Visit this announcement’s website: https://issco.site/conferences/

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EAAA Online Panels

5th Oct – 30th Nov 2021
Tuesdays 1:00 pm CEST
Online | Zoom
Organized by European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology and University of Ljubljana. The EAAA looks forward to welcoming you to the online panels. The talks will begin on Tuesday, 5 October 2021 at 13:00 (CEST) and will take place at the same time each week until the last panel on 30 November 2021. The topics of the panel discussions are diverse and cross-cultural as they discuss different aspects in different regions of Asia, hopefully contributing to a comprehensive understanding of the wider spread of certain ideas, notions and concepts. Broader topics include Buddhist art, painting, printing, photography, architecture, and iconography. Several panels also address the collecting and preservation of Asian art in museums around the world.

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GEAS International and Interdisciplinary PhD Program East Asian Studies

Deadline: 12th Nov 2021
Freie Universität Berlin
GEAS at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its international and interdisciplinary PhD program East Asian Studies again (GEAS) for start in October 2022. Up to 9 candidates can be accepted. GEAS offers a social science-based, structured 3(-4)-year PhD program with a regional focus on East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). Doctoral dissertations at GEAS are expected to analyze the institutional environment of social, political, cultural and economic actors in the East Asian region. All dissertation research at GEAS will be conducted in the context of the three interconnected research lenses of its academic profile: 1. the origin and change of institutions in East Asia, 2. the effects institutions have on processes, related to

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Online International Conference “Urbanization and Settlement Network as Nodes of Connectivity in Afro-Eurasian Frontier Zones (300 BCE-300 CE)”

Online | University of Freiburg
23—24th Sep 2021
14:00—19:00 CEST
In this conference, we examine the interrelationships between settlement and urbanism, on the one hand, and political and economic development, on the other, within frontier zones. Following the work of Elton (1996) and Parker (2006), we conceptualize frontier regions as broad zones where multiple boundaries of different types (ecological, political, cultural, religious, etc.) overlap. We explore how the meeting of difference in frontiers — flexible, fluctuating spaces with access to various cultural and social

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Digital Lecture Series «The Centenary of the Chinese Communist Party»

Online | University of Bergen
Organized by Julia Marinaccio
This year the Chinese Communist Party pompously celebrated its 100th anniversary. Today, the party has over 92 million members and, for over 70 years, has continuously ruled a country as large as 9.6 Mio km2. In his speech on 1 July, officially marking the party’s centenary, ‘paramount’ leader Xi Jinping stated that China’s rise is a “historical inevitability,” making clear that the party is here to stay. The poised speech prompted wide international attention and debate about China’s standing and how it will shape our future. China’s position in the world has clearly changed over the past 70 years, and the party’s contribution to the country’s development is undeniable. However, as variegated the country and its society are,

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Online Workshop: Sino-Hellenic Environmental Philosophy

A Comparative Perspective on Environmental Thought in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Online | University of Bern, Switzerland
9–12th Dec 2021
The environmental crisis has been one of the most serious challenges of our age. It includes climate change, natural disasters, destabilised ecosystems, energy resource depletion, air, soil, and water pollution, animal abuse, and rapidly increasing population. All these issues we are facing today have raised certain doubts about the modern focus on high economic growth and consumption industries and technologies that have been developed since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in the 17-18th centuries. It is clear that the philosophy and sense of values which have urged

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Vacant Position: Associate Professor of Chinese History at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages

University of Oslo, Norway
Deadline: 1st Nov 2021
The person hired will divide her or his time equally between research and teaching. She or he will participate in teaching, such as in BA courses on Chinese history, classical Chinese, and MA courses on Chinese culture and history, Chinese studies, particular research topics, and research methodology. There is ample opportunity to integrate one’s own research in most courses. The position will also include supervising MA students and possibly PhD candidates, exam setting and assessment at all levels, and to carry out administrative duties in accordance with

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Call for Papers: II International Conference “Current Issues in Chinese and Oriental Studies”

Online | Sofia University, Bulgaria
19–20th Nov 2021
Deadline: 10th Oct 2021
The Chinese Studies Department at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the Second International Conference “Current Issues in Contemporary Chinese and Oriental Studies”, which will be convened online on 19 – 20 November 2021. The academic event will mark the 30th anniversary of the Chinese Studies Program at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The aims of the anniversary conference are to present the latest research and current issues in Bulgarian and international

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Vacant Position: University Lecturer in Chinese (fixed-term)

University of Turku, Finland
Deadline: 28th Oct 2021
The University of Turku is a world-class multidisciplinary research university that provides interesting challenges and a unique vantage point into the world of Finnish and international research and education. The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku invites applications for the position of University Lecturer in Chinese Language in the School of Languages and Translation Studies. The position will be filled on a fixed-term basis for the period of 1 March 2022 – 31 July 2024. School of Languages and Translation Studies is an active, diverse and international centre for teaching and research on language studies. The research is carried out in

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Vacant Position: Limited term W-2 Professorship (six years) tenure track in Business Administration, especially International Management / International Business with a particular focus on China

To start at 1st April 2022
Deadline: 30th Sep 2021
Kiel University has successfully recruited positions in the Federal Tenure Track Program for the promotion of young scientists (WISNA program) and aims to attract more qualified women for professorships. The Institute for Business Administration in the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences of Kiel University invites applications for a limited term W-2 Professorship (six years)

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Call for Papers: 1st Online Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP) “Chinese Philosophy: Paths between Convergence and Divergence”

3rd Dec 2021
Deadline: 31st Oct 2021
It is usually acknowledged that Chinese philosophy bloomed during the Warring States, in an epoch of cultural and political division when thinkers or masters roamed from one state to the other, trying to present their ways of thinking and governing to the different rulers. Therefore, despite the antihistoric and monolithic Orientalist interpretation of China, this philosophy arose thanks to the richness of the divergence of

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Online Lecture Series “Spotlight Taiwan – Academic Lectures on Taiwan”

University of Helsinki
Fall Semester 2021
Spotlight Taiwan Helsinki is organized by Department of Cultures at University of Helsinki, with the support of Taiwan’s Ministry of Cultures, Taipei Representative Office in Finland and Centre for East Asian Studies at University of Turku. The first two talks of the online lecture series “Spotlight Taiwan – Academic Lectures on Taiwan” will be held respectively by Prof. Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science) on 24 September, and Prof. Ann Heylen (National Taiwan Normal University) on 1 October. Time below is Helsinki time, which is 1 hour

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Open Call – Grant Programme of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Deadline: 30th Sep 2021
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin invites international researchers to apply for a research grant in 2022 within the framework of the Grant Programme of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The scholarships are available for research in Berlin with the extensive collections of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, such as the holdings of the East Asia Department and CrossAsia, as well as those of other SPK institutions. The application deadline for a research grant at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ends on 30 September, as every year. All necessary information for an application (guidelines, prerequisites etc.) you can find here:

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Online Seminar “China’s Economy: Challenges Created by the Reform Era”

University of Oslo
8th Sep 2021
3:00—4:30 pm CET
21:00 Beijing, 09:00 am Washington DC
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event will be postponed by one week. The new time is 8th of September 3pm Oslo time. All welcome!
China’s economic reforms have caused rapid growth for a period of forty years. The Chinese Communist Party’s gradualist approach to reform was not inevitable. What were the alternative routes and why were they abandoned? What new obstacles for further Chinese economic development may change its future course?
For more information and to sign up for this event, visit: External link…

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Call for Papers: Nr. 28 Other Modernities “Words, powers and pandemics”

Open Access Academic Journal
To be published Nov 2022
Deadline: 15th Oct 2021
Edited by Ana María González Luna, Kim Grego, Giovanna Mapelli and Bettina Mottura
The year 2020 has witnessed the forceful emergence of the theme of pandemic worldwide, highlighting the multifaceted mechanisms of reaction put into play against it. The activation of the resources needed to face risk, uncertainty, difficulties and tragedy has taken all the forms of human and social life, sometimes also determining the rediscovery of past experiences. Women, men, social and professional groups, the media, public institutions have had to draw upon the tools, the memories, the knowledge and the practices necessary to adapt and protect body and spirit from

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Upcoming Conference: “Language, Teaching, and Politics in Arabic and Chinese”

Online | Milan, Italy
16th Dec 2021
Deadline: 15th Sep 2021
University of Milan (Italy) Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication – Standard Arabic and Standard Chinese are both official languages of the UN with a huge number of users. However, as is well known, their respective impact on the cultural identity and political culture of speakers is vastly different. Standard Arabic (MSA) – the official language of 22 countries – lacks a centralized language policy as a consequence of the political fragmentation of the Arab-speaking world. This results in several competing national language academies, with different degrees of authority, ideally

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CrossAsia Online-Survey: “Chinese Studies Research Conditions in Europe”

Between research needs and access to resources – Getting an overview of the situation in different countries in Europe
Deadline: 5th Sep 2021
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 and regions. We at CrossAsia would like to check and underpin our assumption with this questionnaire on the research conditions and requirements in Chinese studies in different countries in Europe. Our goal – together with European

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Vacant Position: Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor of International Studies

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) Suzhou, P.R.C.
Deadline: 3rd Sep 2021
Located in Suzhou, China, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is a young, dynamic and EMI university founded in 2006, and is a unique collaborative institution and first joint-venture university in China to offer both UK (University of Liverpool) and Chinese (Ministry of Education) accredited undergraduate degrees for more than 100 programmes. XJTLU also aims to become truly research-led and has committed significant investment into research development and the expansion of master’s and PhD student numbers on campus. The university has over 18,000 students and nearly 1000 academic staff

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Upcoming Conference: “Historical Network Research in Chinese Studies”

Upcoming Conference: “Historical Network Research in Chinese Studies”

Online | Harvard Zoom
Jul 23—24th & 30—31st 2021
9:00 am — 11:30 am EDT
Network analysis is a burgeoning field in East Asian digital humanities. In recent years, the digitization of source materials, the proliferation of databases, as well as the development of digital tools, have greatly facilitated the study of networks in Chinese studies. To promote interdisciplinary dialogue between

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Vacant Position: Stanley Family and Hua Hsia Chair in Chinese Culture and Institutions

University of Iowa, U.S.A.
Review begins: 15th Sep 2021
The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invite applications for the position of C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Hua Hsia Chair in Chinese Culture and Institutions. The successful candidate will be appointed as a full professor with tenure to commence in August 2022. The position will be situated in a department appropriate to the specialization of the candidate, where normal review process, assignment of teaching duties, and responsibility for mentorship etc. will reside. The position is an endowed chair with a reduced teaching load and a research fund. The chair will also hold a 0% appointment in International Programs and is expected to

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Vacant Position: Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Assistant Professor in Art History

Hong Kong, P.R.C.
Deadline: 30th Jun 2021
Lingnan University, a distinctive liberal arts institution in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is committed to the provision of quality whole-person education by combining the best of Chinese and Western liberal arts traditions. It strives to pursue excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. With three academic Faculties, it offers a wide range of undergraduate degree programmes in arts, business and social sciences. Lingnan’s liberal arts education is characterised by a broad-based interdisciplinary curriculum with specialised disciplinary studies; close student-staff relationship; a vibrant

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Research fellowship “The maritime ceramic road: Chinese ceramics in Asia and Africa”

Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Deadline: 18th Jun 2021
The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road – integral part of the monumental Belt and Road Initiative, which includes a direct connection between China and Italy (through Trieste) – is a major development plan that aims to connect China with the rest of Asia, Africa and Europe. This strategic initiative broadly runs in the footsteps of the naval expeditions of Admiral Zheng He (1371-1433) and the maritime routes covered by the Portuguese at the beginning of the 16th century. However, an extensive seaborne commerce had developed since the 8th century, when the land routes across central Asia had become unsafe and when the demand for

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Upcoming Lecture: Aude Lucas-Lesain “Tales of Success and Failure: Predictive Dreams of Imperial Examinations in Qing Xiaoshuo Literature”

Online | Erlangen, Germany
1st Jun 2021
6:15–7:45 pm CET
US East Coast: 12:15–1:45 pm EST
China: 0:15–1:45 am CST
Speaker: Aude Lucas-Lesain (Chinese Literature; Centre de recherche sur les civilisations d’Asie orientale, Paris; IKGF Visiting Fellow)
This lecture intends to depict the antagonistic look of the literati upon the civil service examination system through xiaoshuo and biji narratives of the Qing period. The analysis relies on tales of dream predictions that portend success or failure at the examinations, and shows

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Call for Position Papers: “Chinese Identity in an Age of Anti-Asian Racism and #StopAsianHate”

British Journal of Chinese Studies
Deadline: 15th Aug 2021
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, racism against Chinese and other East and Southeast Asian communities has surged globally. At the same time, Chinese communities in different parts of the world have mobilised themselves to raise awareness of and fight against Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism. Social media hashtags such as #StopAsianHate or #StopAAPIHate have attracted a large following and galvanised unprecedented political energy. In this process, we observe a simultaneous mobilisation of and a conscious departure from Chinese identity. Some people hold on to the notion of Chinese identity, believing in its political and social relevance, whereas

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Joint Ph.D. Position “Shaping Taste, Building Knowledge: Collecting China in Scotland in the Early 20th Century” University of Glasgow & National Museum of Scotland

Deadline: 4th Jun 2021
Starting: 1st Oct 2021
Supervisors: Prof Nick Pearce and Dr Minna Törmä (University of Glasgow); Dr Qin Cao and Dr John Giblin (NMS) The presence of Chinese material culture in Scotland has grown significantly over the last 200 years, much of it during Britain’s imperial expansion. However, Scottish collecting of Chinese material culture has never been studied through the lenses of critical collecting practices or

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International Workshop: “Dynamics of knowledge transmission and linguistic transformation in Chinese textual cultures”

Online | Paris, France
10-11th Jun 2021
The circulation and the dissemination of knowledge rely in essential ways on forms of linguistics transformation, alteration and manipulation. An apparently simple act such as adding a lexical gloss next to a term can potentially reveal the complex interpretative and translational processes that are needed in order for a specific verbal structure to continue to operate as a meaningful sign in a new setting. Furthermore, it can encapsulate the individual and contextual factors and constraints that might affect the way

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Upcoming Seminar: “Taiwan’s Opportunities and Challenges During the Pandemic: Domestic Politics, Foreign Relations, and Global Health Strategies”

Online | Helsinki, Finland
25th May 2021
10:00-12:00 Helsinki Time
9:00-11:00 Copenhagen Time
8:00-10:00 London Time
Between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and spring 2021, Taiwan’s global visibility has increased thanks in large part to its successful handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak. It is now almost a cliché to elaborate the way in which a small island of nearly 24 million

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Upcoming Lecture: Ute Wallenböck “Tibetan Food(s) and Identity in a Global Context”

Online | Helsinki, Finland
9th Jun 2021
11:00-12:30 Helsinki Time
10:00-11:30 Prague Time
Speaker: Ute Wallenböck (Masaryk University & Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic)
My current research deals with the cultural aspects of Tibetan foods and beverages since I argue that everyday foods illustrate cultural identity: Food(s) are vehicles for expressing culture. In course of my past project on the construction of the collective identity of the Tibeto-Mongol population in the contemporary Henan Mongol

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Upcoming Lecture: Daniel Burton-Rose “The Layman and the Spirit-Writing Altar: Peng Shaosheng (1740-96) and the Historiography of Divine Communication”

Online | Erlangen, Germany
18th May 2021
6:15 pm–7:45 pm CET
US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EST
China: 0:15 am–1:45 am CST
Speaker: Daniel Burton-Rose (Chinese History; IKGF Visiting Fellow). This talk is part of a series of virtual lectures hosted by the International Research Consortium “Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication” at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The full schedule is available – for online participation, please register anytime at

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International Summer Seminar “From late imperial to Republican China: continuities and ruptures”

La Rochelle, France
6-10th Sep 2021
Application deadline: 15th Jun 2021
Coordination: Paola Calanca (École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris), Chen Hsi-Yuan (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei), Luca Gabbiani (École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris), François Gipouloux (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris), Lian Lingling (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei), Xavier Paulès (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris), Wu Jen-shu (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei) Organisation: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, École française d’Extrême-Orient, École

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15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS) “Continuity and Change”

Online | Olomouc, Czech Republic
26–27th Nov 2021
Deadline: 30th Jun 2021
The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently accepting individual paper, organized panel, and research poster proposals for its 15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies to be held on November 26–27, 2021 in Olomouc, Czech Republic and online, using Whova, a conference (web)app. The general theme of the conference this year is Continuity and Change. We invite contributions that concern any region or culture in Asia and address the conference theme from a variety of perspectives. We welcome both synchronic and diachronic approaches grounded in a range of disciplines

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Research Associate: Academic Freedom, Globalised Scholarship and the Rise of Authoritarian China

London, UK
Deadline: 20th May 2020
This is a fixed term Research Associate position within the Research Project Academic Freedom, Globalised Scholarship and the Rise of Authoritarian China. This is one of two positions available, the other is based at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany).
Our AHRC and DFG-funded, collaborative German-UK research project brings together team of scholars working in the fields of law, political studies, Chinese area studies, human rights and moral philosophy, based at the University of Erlangen and at King’s College London, to investigate how transnational

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Call for Contributions: “China and Global History” International Online Workshop

1-3rd Sep 2021
Deadline: 1st Jun 2021

Update: The following PDF is the workshop’s handout and contains information regarding the program, the keynotes and the registration link of the online workshop “China and Global History”. The workshop takes place on Zoom between 1-3 September, and is co-organized by Mr. Sebestyén Hompot (University of Vienna), Ms. Sabine Hinrichs (University of Vienna), and Ms. Tanja Kotik (University of Graz): China_and_Global_History_Online_Workshop_handout

Main organizer: Sebestyén Hompot

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Summer School: EU-China Cooperation. Green Transition and Digital Economy Between National Policies and Multipolarism

Summer School: EU-China Cooperation. Green Transition and Digital Economy Between National Policies and Multipolarism

19-24th Jul 2021
Deadline: 4th Jun 2021
Green transition and digital economy will revolutionize manufacturing, services, finance and, ultimately, our daily life. After the Covid-19 pandemic, this trend is due to accelerate, thanks to the implementation of the Next Generation EU and China’s XIV Five year plan. Will Bruxelles and Beijing’s policies lead us towards a better, more equal planet? Which technologies will be improving our

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Call for Submissions: Sixth International Conference on Chinese Studies “The Silk Road”

Call for Submissions: Sixth International Conference on Chinese Studies “The Silk Road”

5-6th Jun 2021
Deadline: 30th Apr 2021
The Sixth International Conference on Chinese Studies “The Silk Road”, organized by the Confucius Institute at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, will be convened ONLINE on June 4 – 5, 2021. The conference aims with the help of modern technology to continue and build on the rich cultural exchange between China and the world, between East and West, hence it covers a wide range of topics in the field of Chinese and Oriental

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Call for Papers: Global Storytelling issue 2.1 – Special Issue on Serial Narrative: “Streaming and Seriality”

Deadline: 1st Aug 2021
Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images is a new journal founded by Editor-in-Chief Ying Zhu, hosted at Hong Kong Baptist University, and published by University of Michigan. This special issue of Global Storytelling will investigate how streaming media has impacted the production, distribution, and reception of serial narratives. Television research, beginning with Herta Herzog’s landmark study of radio listeners “On Borrowed Experience”, privileged the soap opera as an object of research due to the special problems

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PhD Student Position (65%, E13 TV-L, 3 years)

Erlangen, Germany
Deadline: 31st May 2021
The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) invites applications for the position of a PhD student (f/m/d) with an interest in the global/transregional history of quantification and/or modern or contemporary history of science in China, in particular statistics or predictive sciences. The position is part of the interdisciplinary project “Quantification and Prediction from Europe to East-Asia” funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation (2021–2026). In cooperation with the IKGF

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Postdoctoral Researcher (100%, E13 TV-L, 4 years)

Erlangen, Germany
Deadline: 31st May 2021
The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) invites applications for the position of a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) with an interest in the global/transregional history of quantification and/or modern or contemporary history of science in China, in particular statistics or predictive sciences. The position is part of the interdisciplinary project “Quantification and Prediction from Europe to East Asia” funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation (2021–2026). In cooperation with the

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China in the 17th Century: Trauma, Transition and Global Transformations

An International Workshop to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal Ming Qing Yanjiu
20-21st Oct 2021
This will be an online workshop hosted by the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Should the global situation allow it, it will be held as a hybrid event. Organized by : Prof. Donatella Guida, Dr. Federico Brusadelli. Keynote Lecture : Prof. Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia)
Deadline for Abstract Proposals:
Apr 25th 2021
Notification of Acceptance:
May 25th 2021
Within the “global crisis” of the 17 th century (Parker 2013), that put under

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“Conversations on Chinese Philosophy” – A Virtual Symposium

“Conversations on Chinese Philosophy” – A Virtual Symposium

Spring Semester 2021
Organized by Federico Brusadelli, Chiara Ghidini & Lisa Indraccolo. Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” – Centre for East Asian Studies. Tallinn University – Institute of Humanities
MICROSOFT TEAMS – REGISTER HERE: https://cutt.ly/vkYG9fk
March 4, 11.30 am CET –
Jana Rosker, Lee Ming-huei, F. Heubel

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Vacant Position: Research Associate for the Project “Archiving Artefacts”

Hamburg, Germany
Deadline: Extended
As a University of Excellence, Universität Hamburg is one of the strongest research universities in Germany. As a flagship university in the greater Hamburg region, it nurtures innovative, cooperative contacts to partners within and outside academia. It also provides and promotes sustainable education, knowledge, and knowledge exchange locally, nationally, and internationally.
The Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures” invites applications for a RESEARCH ASSOCIATE FOR THE PROJECT “Archiving Artefacts”

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In Memoriam Kristofer Schipper (1934–2021)

It is with sadness that we have to announce the decease of Kristofer Marinus Schipper in Amsterdam on 18 February 2021. Born on 23 October 1934 in Järnskog, Sweden, Kristofer Schipper grew up near Edam, Netherlands. He studied in Taiwan, where he was initiated as a priest in the Zhengyi School of Taoism. He worked as researcher at the École française d’Extrême-Orient, taught at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, and was head of the Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises of the Collège de France. In 1993, he was appointed at Leiden University. He was also member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kristofer Schipper was one of the most eminent scholars on Taoism. Apart from The Taoist Canon, a work he edited with Franciscus Verellen (The University of Chicago Press 2005),

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EACS 2021: Call for Late-Breaking Session Submissions

EACS 2021: Call for Late-Breaking Session Submissions

Leipzig, Germany
24-28th Aug 2021
Deadline: 15th Mar 2021
The EACS 2021 is now accepting a limited number of late-breaking panel proposals for inclusion at the 23rd biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), which will be held in Leipzig from August 24 to August 28, 2021. Topical and timely late-breaking panels provide a forum for engaging in dialogue on current events that affect our

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PhD (or Postdoc) scholarship in a Kang Youwei project at KU Leuven, Chinese Studies, funded by Research Foundation (FWO)

Flanders, Belgium
Deadline: 15th Mar 2021
4 years PhD (October 2021–September 2025) or 3 years Postdoc (October 2021– September 2024)
This scholarship is offered in the context of a research project on the portrayal of Kang Youwei as an “in-between” figure in contemporary Chinese academia (for more details, see “Project” below). We are looking for a PhD (or Postdoc) student in Sinology, Chinese studies, Chinese philosophy, or Chinese intellectual history willing to research current views on Kang Youwei in relation to past, present and future issues in religion, politics,

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Vacant Position: Assistant Professor in Museum Studies and Art History, Department of Visual Studies

Hong Kong, P.R.C.
Lingnan University, a distinctive liberal arts institution in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is committed to the provision of quality whole-person education by combining the best of Chinese and Western liberal arts traditions. It strives to pursue excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. With three academic Faculties, it offers a wide range of undergraduate degree programmes in arts, business and social sciences. Lingnan’s liberal arts education is characterised by a broad-based interdisciplinary curriculum with

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Call for Papers: Online International Workshop “Dynamics of knowledge transmission and linguistic transformation in Chinese textual cultures”

Paris, France
10-11th Jun 2021
Update:
The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Access is free but registration is required. For registration, please visit https://knowl-lingtrans.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3 The workshop is jointly organised by Barbara Bisetto (University of Verona, Italy) and Rainier Lanselle (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, CRCAO, Paris, France). For inquiries, contact: knowl-lingtrans@sciencesconf.org Hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages and

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Call for Papers: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Volume 2 (2021)

Deadline: 31st Mar 2021
For its second volume, the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies invites scholars to submit papers dealing with aspects of youth in the pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese world. We welcome unpublished papers that discuss the concept of youth and its impact on Chinese society especially in a diachronic and comparative way, on topics including, but not limited to:
● Youth and childhood in pre-modern China
● Youth within families and as social groups in society: intra- and transgenerational perspectives
● The transition from childhood to youth, and to adulthood

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Vacant Position: Assistant Professor – Pre-modern East Asia/China

Toronto, Canada
Deadline: 19th Nov 2020
The Department of East Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Pre-modern East Asian cultural studies, with a focus on China, including the late imperial period. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an expected start date of July 1, 2021, or shortly thereafter. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. degree in East Asian Studies or a related discipline by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter, with a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching. We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and enhance existing

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EACS Young Scholar Award (YSA) 2020

On 19th September 2020, the three finalists of the EACS Young Scholar Award presented their lectures to an audience of EACS members and a jury of experts during an online Zoom event. The YSA jury received 32 submissions of high quality which were subsequently reviewed by both internal and external reviewers. The finalists and their topics were:
Richard Sage (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Liezi’s story about the man who fell ill with forgetfulness through the eyes of Fan Zhixu (?-1129)
Elke Papelitzky (NYU Shanghai)
Shi Shipiao’s map of Southeast Asia: Making a case for maritime trade
Kwok-Fai Law (SOAS, London)
Between resistance and collaboration: Maritime teaboys and the making of working-class political culture in China’s wartime shipping industry, 1937-1941

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Call for Papers for the upcoming conference “Chinese Popular Culture in Translation and Transmission”

University of Leicester, UK
22–23rd Jul 2021*
Deadline: 15th Jan 2021
Popular culture is elusive to define, yet through a multitude of forms and expressions, its influences across cultural boundaries are often effective, efficient and far-reaching. The conference will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange views and ideas about Chinese popular culture in the context of global circulation. It aims to outline scenes and trajectories of Chinese popular culture in translation and transmission from the 1990s, focusing on paradigms, trends, shifts and issues in the processes of production, dissemination

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Call for Papers: The XXXI International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa

St. Petersburg, Russia
23-25th Jun 2021
Deadline: 31st Jan 2021
The XXXI International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa: “Russia and the East. Сommemorating Centennial of Political and Cultural Ties” The 31st biennial International Congress on Source Study and Historiography of Asian and African Countries will be held at Saint Petersburg State University from June 23, 2021 to June 25, 2021. This Congress will be dedicated to the Centennial anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Middle and Far Eastern countries to be celebrated in 2020 and 2021. The main topic related

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Call for Applications: PhD program East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin starting October 2021

Berlin, Germany
Deadline: 2nd Dec 2020
Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) is inviting applications again for the PhD program East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin starting October 2021. GEAS offers a social science-based, structured 3-year PhD program with a regional focus on East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). Doctoral dissertations at GEAS are expected to analyze the institutional environment of social, political, cultural and economic actors in the East Asian region. All dissertation research at GEAS will be conducted in the context of the three interconnected research lenses of its academic profile:1. the origin and change of institutions in East Asia, 2. the effects

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Needham Research Institute, Cambridge: ISF/NRI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Cambridge, UK
Deadline: 15th Nov 2020
The Trustees of the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge (www.nri.cam.ac.uk) invite applications for a research fellowship, open to those intending to carry out research in original source materials relating to any topic within the broad field of the history of science, technology and medicine in China without limitation of historical period. Applicants will be expected to hold the degree of PhD in a relevant area. The fellowship is tenable at the Needham Research Institute, whose library offers unique facilities for research in the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia,

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Call for Papers: Art, History and Culture of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms

Deadline: Jan 31st 2021
In November 2019, the International Research Centre for the History and Culture of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms (IRC) was co-established by the Yunnan Provincial Museum in China, the Woon Brothers Foundation in Singapore and Northumbria University, UK. The aim is to improve understanding of the history, culture, and art of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms in Yunnan province, Southwest China. Dating between the 7th-13th centuries CE, these kingdoms produced unique and important Buddhist art forms. Located in, and managed by, the Yunnan Provincial Museum, the IRC intends to advance academic research, international cooperation and

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Research Grant Program of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Deadline: 30th Sep 2020
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin invites international researchers to apply for a research grant in 2021 within the framework of the Grant Programme of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The scholarships are available for research in Berlin with the extensive collections of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, such as the holdings of the East Asia Department and CrossAsia, as well as those of other SPK institutions. “With its unique collections, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (State Library at Berlin) is a research library of international ranking, which offers excellent working conditions to scholars especially in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, in Law and in the History of Science.”

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In Memoriam: Alfredo Mario Cadonna (1948-2020)

On July 4, Professor Alfredo Mario Cadonna returned to the root. During the last part of the twentieth century, from the 1980s onwards, he was one of the most important figures in Italian Sinology in the field of classical literary and religious studies. The subject of his degree thesis presented in the academic year 1978-79 (Yulu and denglu of the Chan Buddhist school as a source for the study of vernacular elements of “Middle Chinese”) already demonstrated the two aspects that proved to be fundamental cornerstones of his research activity: a focus on the expressions of the Chinese religious-philosophical tradition (Chan, and later especially Daoism) and the centrality of a language-based approach, the vehicle of such expressions. Hallmarks of Alfredo’s academic writing, teaching

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Travel grant: Sino-Tibetan Languages: Research Methodologies and Approaches to Linguistic Field Studies and Language Documentation among Tibeto-Burman Speaking Minorities in China

Ghent, Belgium
26th-30th Oct 2020
Deadline: 31st Jul 2020
Thanks to the generous support of the TIANZHU FOUNDATION, we are pleased to award up to 800 Euros in travel remuneration of five international PhD students. This money can be used for travel, accommodation, and meals. To apply for this travel grant, please send a one-page cover letter and your CV to Christoph.anderl@ugent.be by July 31st

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Call for Applications: China Studies Post-doctoral Fellowship

Deadline: 30th Aug 2020
The China Studies Post-doctoral Fellowship, offered jointly by Ashoka University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) for recent PhDs in China Studies, is an opportunity for postdoctoral researchers to conduct a two-year study on China, extendable pending review and approval, under the guidance of established scholars and professors while teaching at top Indian universities. The fully-funded fellowship is open to scholars who have completed PhDs anytime after 2011 with a specific focus on China (utilizing Chinese language sources) across various disciplines of humanities and social science. These include, but are not limited to, anthropology, archaeology, cultural

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Vacant Position: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (M/W/D) „Forschungsverbund Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt“

Leipzig, Germany
Deadline: 30th Jul 2020
Kennziffer 137/2020, befristet bis 31. Mai 2024, 65% einer Vollbeschäftigung, vorgesehene Vergütung: Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L. Am Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) ist ab dem 1. Januar 2021 oben genannte Stelle zu besetzen: Das bundesweit agierende Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ), finanziert aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), ist ein Verbundprojekt von elf Hochschulen

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Call for Applications: Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants and China Travel Grants

Deadline: 9th/16th Oct 2020
Once a year, supported by the Peters Beer Foundation, part of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Humanities and Sciences in Germany), the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to young academics with an international focus. The travel grants are meant to improve the career opportunities for humanities and social science academics in their qualification phase. The scientists conduct a self-chosen research project in at least two and at most three host countries which are home to MWS institutes and branches (this includes among others China, Japan and Singapore). The total term of funding

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Call for Papers: China Sounds Abroad – Migration, Mobility, and Modernity

Aarhus University, DK
May 6-8th 2021
Inspired by the aural turn in the humanities and China’s recent international propaganda endeavours, this international conference aims at establishing a new and innovative research agenda in the field of China Studies: a systematic investigation of the sonic dimension of China’s modern history and rising global presence. Held at Aarhus University, the conference will be organized by Assoc. Prof. Andreas Steen in cooperation with Prof. Frederick Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Prof. Andrew F. Jones (Univ. of California, Berkeley). Our aim is to thoroughly investigate theory and methodology as well as the content and sources of this new

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