EACS

Call for Participation – 4th International TAP Workshop: “Taiwan’s Responses to Global Megatrends”

6th Sep 2025

Trier University, Germany
1–5th Sep 2025

International Workshop from Project TAP “Taiwan as a Pioneer – Local Innovation in the Dynamics of Global Megatrends”

For our final project year, we would like to invite academics and young scholars researching Taiwan to our 4th International Workshop from 1 to 5 September 2025 at Trier University. If your research contributes to Taiwan’s Responses to Global Mega-trends or apply innovative methods to Taiwan Studies, we would like to encourage you to join our program. The TAP team engages with a broad range of topics, approaches, and methods. We invite submissions that explore local responses in Tai-wan (climate change responses, innovation technologies, digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, migration, demographic changes, and rapid urbanisation). We particularly invite submissions that address Taiwan’s innovative role and responses to global dynamics and megatrends. We also favor innovative methodologies, methods, and new perspectives on Taiwan studies.

Submission Instruction & Timeline

For those interested, we ask for your submission of a working title, abstracts, and CV by 15 April 2025.… Read more ⤻

Member’s Publication: Lauren Walden

23rd Feb 2026

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

Hong Kong University Press, 2024

Surrealism in China initially gained a foothold in Shanghai’s former French concession during the early 1930s, disseminated by returning Chinese students who had directly encountered the movement in Paris and Tokyo. Shanghai surrealism adopted a dialectical form, resonating with the modus operandi of the Parisian movement as well as China’s traditional belief system of Daoism. Reconciling the thought of Freud and Marx, Surrealism subsumed the multiple contradictions that divided Republican Shanghai, East and West, colonial and cosmopolitan, ancient and modern, navigating the porous boundaries that separate dream and reality. Shanghai surrealists were not rigid followers of their Parisian counterparts. Indeed, they commingled Surrealist techniques with elements of traditional Chinese iconography. Rather than revolving around a centralized group with a leader, Shanghai Surrealism was a much more diffuse entity, disseminated across copious different periodicals, avant-garde groups, and the entire gamut of political ideology, ranging from Nationalist party supporters to Communist sympathizers.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: International Conference – Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts

16th Nov 2025

13-15th Nov 2025
University of Münster, Germany
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

Religious traditions have long served as dynamic vehicles for the transfer and transformation of cultural knowledge across societies. In 19th and 20th century Asia, profound political, social, and cultural changes affected interactions between religious actors, institutions, and ideas, fostering unprecedented movements of knowledge within and beyond religious communities. This conference seeks to explore the mechanisms, actors, spaces and outcomes of intercultural knowledge transfer with a particular focus on East Asian and Indo-Persian regions. By examining these processes, the conference aims to deepen our understanding of how religious frameworks influenced the production, adaptation, and dissemination of knowledge across cultures. We invite papers that engage with the central question: How did religious contexts facilitate the transfer and transformation of knowledge in, about and across Asia from early modern times to the 20th century?

Send Abstracts to: knowledgetransfer2025@uni-muenster.de

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Call for Papers: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2026

8th Mar 2025

And presentations at the CCVA Symposium, Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, the National Agricultural Exhibition Centre, 22 May 2025
Building History: Collecting Chinese Contemporary Art
Abstract due: 7th Mar 2025

In the past three decades, the collection of contemporary Chinese art has undergone a profound evolution with the development of the market economic system and the deepening of globalisation. From local collectors, such as Song Wei, an entrepreneur in Beijing who ‘sponsored’ 1989 China Avant Garde Exhibition by collecting the works exhibited, to overseas connoisseurs, who organised diplomatic residences and overseas exhibitions in the 1990s, collecting art has played an instrumental role in the formation of China’s contemporary art scene. In the 2000s, these transnational exchanges and the burgeoning art market catalysed the museum boom in China. Later, in 2012, the remarkable donation of major Chinese contemporary art collector Dr. Uli Sigg’s to M+ Museum in Hong Kong and the subsequent presentations of this collection after M+’s opening in 2021 were groundbreaking for developing the concept of art collections.… Read more ⤻

Call for Contributions: Ink in Chinese History, Literature, and Culture (JEACS — Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies)

1st Dec 2025

Deadline: 30th Nov 2025

The editors of JEACS invite submissions of articles for an upcoming special issue tentatively titled “Ink in Chinese History, Literature, and Culture”, to be published in 2026.

The chief goal of this issue is to shift the focus away from the mainstream of ink studies (e.g. calligraphy and ink paintings) to instead draw out the murky backwaters of those more unconventional, unexpected, or understudied aspects such as tattoos, marginalia, metaphor, and materiality. In addition, it seeks to apply fresh perspectives and frameworks to the study of ink from fields like gender and religious studies, sensory history, and animal ethics. Contributions may focus on any time period up to and including the present, and may belong to any discipline(s) within the Humanities and Social Sciences. We also welcome transregional studies involving other cultures.
The issue also hopes to publish a collation of short interviews with ink practitioners such as tattooists, printers, archivists, and calligraphers.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Chinese On the Move — Migrations and Representations Across Time in Europe and Beyond

30th Nov 2025

27–29th Nov 2025
Trier University, Germany
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

The China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and Beyond Europe (CERPE) is delighted to announce the 8th annual workshop, which will focus on the multifaceted phenomenon of Chinese migration and the complex negotiations of identities by Sinophone diasporas. This workshop seeks to deepen our understanding of transnational Chinese migrations and cultural representations from a broad spectrum of perspectives.

Historically, Chinese migration has been driven by diverse motivations, ranging from economic pursuits like the mid-19th century Gold Rush in the United States, to seeking educational and entrepreneurial opportunities in the 20th century and beyond. In contemporary times, despite challenges such as geopolitical conflicts, economic downturns, and policies promoting decoupling and isolationism, Sinophone diasporas continue to evolve and diversify. This has resulted also in novel diasporic and societal responses in countries of migration destinations.
Moreover, advancements in technology have catalyzed the formation of dynamic online communities and have fostered a rich variety of cultural and artistic expressions among Chinese migrants and their descendants.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: The 3rd Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) PhD Forum

28th Jun 2025

27th Jun 2025
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025
School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK

The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design, and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices and theoretical studies. Following the 17-year success of our CCVA Annual Conference, which invites researchers, curators, artists, designers, and practitioners at all stages of their careers to share the latest research development on the theme proposed each year, we inaugurated the first CCVA PhD Forum on June 30th, 2023. This new forum provided a platform for scholars and doctoral students from the UK, China, and Austria, among other locations, to present and engage in dialogue about their doctoral research. In the past two forums (2023 and 2024), we have welcomed nearly 30 PhD students and newly awarded PhDs from universities from the UK, the mainland Europe and Asia, to give presentations. The universities include University of Oxford, the Glasgow School of Art, University of the Arts London, University of Vienna, University of Amsterdam, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, etc.… Read more ⤻

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Library Travel Grant 2025

1st Jan 2026

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 not exceed one week. The award of a Travel Grant is subject to the availability of funds at the time of application.

Applications received before the deadline of 15 March 2025 will be considered within 3 weeks after receipt. Applicants should be paid-up EACS members based in Europe, but applications from non-members, especially from students and young scholars (up to 35 years), will also be considered 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 having priority. Once the grant has been approved, the beneficiary must use it within six months from the approval date.… Read more ⤻

Workshop: ‘Quantifying Education in 20th Century China: Schools as Production Sites and Repositories of Statistics’

18th Jul 2025

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
16-17 Jul 2025
Deadline: 1st Mar 2025

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard, Gus Tsz-kit Chan, Sijia Cheng
Education has long been central to Chinese modernization, with educational statistics playing a pivotal role in policy decision making. Literacy rates, years of education, physical parameters of students, and enrollment of women and ethnic minorities were important performance metrics of the state. In China, one of the earliest instances of nationwide school statistics can be traced back to the late Qing period, when the Ministry of Education produced histograms estimating the number of politically educated citizens needed for a proposed constitutional monarchy. Although national education reports were suspended in 1916 at a central level, educational statistics were revitalized under the Guomindang government in tandem with its re-centralization of political authority. In the 2000s, as quantitative history gained popularity, data from the Republican period experienced a new “afterlife.” Scholars addressed inconsistencies and gaps by developing revised estimates that restored and enhanced the legibility of old reports and surveys (Wang, van Leeuwen and Li).… Read more ⤻

Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship on Modern & Contemporary China

16th Mar 2025

Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies, France
Deadline: 15th Mar 2025

We invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral research position at the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO) starting in Fall 2025. The position is co-funded by the
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French National Research Agency (ANR).

Missions. The appointed researcher will carry out an independent research program related to modern and contemporary China under the supervision of Dr. Cécile Armand.

Research topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Chinese overseas students and intellectual migrations.
• Elite education, career development, and mobility.
• Academic and business networks.
• Sino-foreign exchanges and transnational approaches to China.

Activities. The appointee is expected to publish at least three research papers during the contract period, and to disseminate research findings regularly through conferences and
other academic platforms. He/she is also expected to interact with students, faculty, and engineers affiliated with the Institute, to participate in the Institute’s activities and events
organized by the Principal Investigator.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Repay Resentment with Straightforwardness? Exploring Revenge in the Chinese Context

4th Jul 2025

KU Leuven, Belgium
1-3rd Jul 2025
Deadline: 20th Feb 2025

From antiquity to the present, rarely has a topic been discussed as widely in China as revenge. Literature, philosophy, law, theater, cinema, and many more fields have dealt with revenge for over two millennia and continue to negotiate it to this day. While in philosophical texts often
described as governed by ritual and specific rules, revenge can likewise be rampant, brutal, and used to defy social and political expectations, as found in Chinese novels and contemporary movies. Folk tales portray outlaws as heroes for taking revenge, whereas lawful state servants become the target of the joke. Conversely, the Triads operate outside the boundaries of the law, while their actions strictly conform to their self-imposed ritual codices, such as when and how to take revenge. And Chinese opera and theater have long used revenge for entertainment, while in recent years consumers have used entertainment products for revenge buying.… Read more ⤻

For EACS Members: EACS Newsletter #59, Dec 2024

2nd Feb 2025
Access to our latest newsletter (#59) is restricted to our members. If you want to apply for membership in the EACS, please fill in the registration form on the members page.

Volume 5 of the JEACS (Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies) is online!

23rd Jan 2026

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 to the present day, plus a Spotlight article giving a comparative perspective from Japan. There are also reviews of four recent scholarly publications, and a list of doctoral theses defended at European universities in the year 2023-24. We hope that China scholars, whether EACS members or not, will find this issue interesting, and that you will bear the Journal in mind when you are looking to publish a scholarly article (on any China-related topic) or a book review, or when you or one of your doctoral students completes a doctoral thesis. We especially welcome reviews of books (particularly translations) published in European languages other than English.
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/issue/view/663

We thank our authors and reviewers for their work and wish all a happy new year.… Read more ⤻

Biennial Conference Series — The Margins of Translation in the East Asian Context

29th Oct 2025

University of Mons, Belgium
28th Oct 2025
Deadline: 15th Mar 2025

This conference is the first of a biennial conference cycle launched by the ChinEAsT (Chinese and East Asian Languages, Translation and Cultures) laboratory of the University of Mons.
As one of the most significant topics to have emerged in the field of translation studies, the concept of “margins” is both intriguing and intricate. In its most fundamental sense, the term denotes the vacant spaces that encompass a text. In the figurative sense, however, it also symbolizes the scope for creativity and interpretation available to the translator during the translation process.

The act of translation is a complex, creative process that requires a keen understanding of cultural nuances, intertextuality, and contextual references (sometimes conveyed by idioms). This is all the more true in the East Asian context, since historically China, Japan and Korea, due to their relative isolation, have developed cultures that are markedly different from those of the West.… Read more ⤻

Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender — Voicing Gender in China

19th Jun 2025

17-18th Jun 2025
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Deadline: 1st Feb 2025

We are pleased to announce that the Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender will be hosted by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle on 17-18 June 2025. Titled ‘Voicing Gender in China,’ the conference seeks to explore the multiple sites of intersection between voice and gender in Chinese society, past and present.

Within Chinese studies, fruitful articulations between voice and gender studies have drawn from studies of women’s political activism in history and sociology, exploring the ways in which activists and organisers have articulated new political identities in rallying cries and everyday protest. Literary scholars have looked at the shaping of gendered subjectivities through self-narratives and autobiographies, paying close attention to dialogue, orality and the mechanisms of silencing within literary establishments. In recent years, an explosion of sensory histories have explored how gender is enacted and defined through music, opera, dance and song.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies — Edition 2025

1st May 2025

Deadline: 30th Apr 2025

The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 48, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2025‒26.

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 https://www.oaw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/forschung/bjoaf/index.html.en

Authors are kindly requested to use our template (https://www.oaw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/forschung/bjoaf/content/bjoaf-template.docx) and to
send their paper as an email attachment to ‹ bjoaf@rub.de › by April 30, 2025.

All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review.

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Member’s Publication: Kelly Ngo

6th Jan 2026

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

Ann Arbor: Lever Press, 2024

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

This is the first book-length study in English of the Essentials for Bringing about Order from Assembled Texts (Qunshu zhiyao 群書治要), a rulership anthology that became renowned for its model of governance in ancient and early modern East Asia. The Essentials is one of the earliest Chinese anthologies designed to educate rulers in cultivating an ethical character and governing the state. Commissioned for the Tang emperor Taizong in the 620s, the Essentials articulates a distinctive political philosophy through a collection of excerpts from earlier canonical, historical, and masters writings, and their commentaries. Examining the Essentials and its transmission in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam through the lens of cultural memory, Ordering Tang China explores the foundation, conduct, and impact of Zhenguan rulership, which became synonymous with good governance among later generations of ruling elites, scholars, and historians in China and beyond.  … Read more ⤻

Call for Participation: Conference — “Lessons Learned: Navigating Experiences from Sino-European Cooperation for Future Global Engagements”

1st Feb 2025

7-8th Jul 2025
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Submission deadline: 31st Jan 2025

We invite (in particular, but not exclusively) contributions from researchers in the fields of Sinology, East Asian Studies, Political Sciences, Philosophy/Ethics, Innovation Research as well as practical reports and contributions to discussions from universities, research centers and think tanks. We encourage contributions that critically reflect on how academic cooperation with China is perceived and shaped in Europe today and what implications this has or could have for cooperation with other countries. In this context, we want to examine various dimensions such as the legal framework for international partnerships, political and economic considerations and the risks for the innovative capacity of European research. Furthermore, it is important for us to consider societal interests and European values that shape our cooperation efforts and to consider the ethical implications of international scientific cooperation amidst ongoing geopolitical tensions. The aim of this conference is to highlight key findings and to open questions related to these collaborations and to draw lessons from past experiences that may be useful for future international cooperation in education and research with (countries other than) China.… Read more ⤻

Upcoming Summer School: The China School — China’s Hi-Tech Rise: Strategies, Players and Perspectives

29th Jul 2025

14-28th Jul 2025
Milan, Beijing, Shanghai
Deadline: 30th Apr 2025

Organized by the Research Center on Contemporary China (CSCC) and the Graduate School of Management of Polytechnic University of Milan, The China School represents an extraordinary opportunity to experience firsthand the ongoing transformations of China’s economy, fostered by its domestically developed technology.

Our two-week program combines lectures by some of the world’s most influential China scholars in Milan, with visits to international corporations as well as career-oriented meetings in Beijing and Shanghai.

The focus of the sixth edition of the The China School is China’s hi-tech rise and how it impacts on the advancement of the world’s second largest economy and global capitalism.

The China School will be held in presence in Milan, Beijing and Shanghai, from 14 July to 28 July 2025. After three days in Milan, the group will fly to China.
All the School activities – including lectures, company visits, and guided tours – are indicated in the program.… Read more ⤻

International Conference Taiwan as a Contact Zone: Connecting to the German-speaking World

5th Jan 2025

Institute of East Asian Studies
Universität Wien, Austria
3-4th Jan 2025

International Conference organized by Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, University of Vienna; co-organized by Prof. Dr. Ann Heylen, International Taiwan Studies Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan and Dr. Jens Damm, ERCCT, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.

Taiwan Studies has grown steadily in recent decades with new programs, conferences, associations, and publications. However, engaging broader audiences remains challenging. To expand its reach, Taiwan Studies must adopt transnational, cross-disciplinary approaches reflecting globalization dynamics.

This conference explores Taiwan’s multifaceted connections with the German-speaking world across culture, science, technology, law, and the arts. While Taiwan Studies has expanded significantly in English, this event highlights the rich but underexplored exchanges between Taiwan and German-speaking regions.

By bringing together diverse scholars to explore these interconnections, the conference aims to deepen understanding of Taiwan’s global position and expand Taiwan Studies beyond Anglophone spheres, highlighting Taiwan as a cross-cultural “contact zone.”… Read more ⤻

Paris Graduate School of East Asian Studies: Scholarships for Master 1 and Master 2 students — Academic year 2025-2026

18th Jan 2025

Université Paris Cité, France
Deadline: 17th Jan 2025

The SMARTS-UP program of Université Paris Cité aims at promoting the internationalization of Master’s courses and attracting the best foreign students. For 2024-2025, 160 grants of 10,000 € are available for incoming foreign students in the various Master programs.
Candidates should submit their application online between the 1st of December 2024 and the 17th of January 2025 (17:00, Central European Time).

Download this announcement’s official PDF:

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Call for Papers: BACS Annual Conference 2025

6th Sep 2025

University of Leicester, UK
3-5th Sep 2025
Proposal deadline: 28th Feb 2025

The 2025 British Association for Chinese Studies annual conference will be held at the University of Leicester (UK) on 3-5 September 2025. We are now inviting proposals for conference presentations. As usual, the conference committee welcomes proposals from a broad range of disciplines as long as the topics are related to the field of Chinese Studies. This year, we are accepting both individual papers and pre-constituted panel proposals.

For individual papers:

The individual proposal shall include the following information, all in the same document.
• A title
• 5-6 key words
• An abstract (maximum 300 words) for a 20-minute presentation.
• Speaker’s short biography (maximum 150 words), including aOiliation.
• Speaker’s email address.

For pre-constituted panels
The panel proposal shall include the following documents
• A panel title and format

We encourage submission that embraces a range of scholarship. In addition to the conventional presentations of research papers, the panel may adopt a different format, such as roundtable discussions, pedagogic forums, curated Q&A, open-floor dialogues, or working-in-progress workshops.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Online Symposium jointly organised by SOAS and Tsinghua University “Virtual Spaces and New Horizons: Humanities in the Digital Age”

24th Apr 2025

22-23rd Apr 2025 | Zoom
Abstract due: 10th Jan 2025

This is part of the UK-China Humanities Alliance International Forum Series, ‘World Maps and World Cultures’.

From the inception of BBS to the rise of Facebook’s metaverse, virtual spaces continue to attract a wide audience with a promise for an alternative realm characterized by a decentralized network of communication and unparalleled connectivity.

For detailed Call for Paper, please visit
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/online-symposium-virtual-spaces-and-new-horizons-humanities-digital-age

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IV Congress of the Spanish Association of East Asian Studies “East Asian Studies in the current global landscape: new contexts, new challenges”

7th Jun 2025

Universidad de Granada, Spain

4-6th Jun 2025
Deadline: 8th Dec 2024

The IV Congress of the Spanish Association of East Asian Studies will take place on June 4, 5 and 6, 2025 with the common thread: East Asian Studies in the current global landscape: new contexts, new challenges. You can find all the information in the following link: https://eventos.ugr.es/iv-congreso-aeeao-2025/

Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: December 8, 2024.
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: February 5, 2025
Deadline for registration: 4 April 2025
Scholarship application period: March 3 – March 14, 2025 (see scholarship information)
Notification of scholarship resolution: March 31, 2025

We encourage you to participate and to share this information with those who may be interested.


Social Networks and Webs Commission
IV Congress of the Spanish Association of East Asian Studies
AEEAO
https://www.esasiaoriental.es/congreso/iv-congreso-aeeao-granada-2025/… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: 28th CHIME International Conference “Digital Futures for Chinese Music”

9th Jul 2025

University College Cork, Ireland
4–8th Jul 2025
Deadline: 15h Jan 2025

In this conference we focus on the various ways new media (digital media especially) provide spaces for preserving, creating, playing, sharing, teaching, or discussing music, and the ways these spaces are impacting what musicians, culture bearers, and others do in the musical part of their lives. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit proposals that resonate with this theme. However, presentations of any new research in the broad area of Chinese music studies are also welcome, whether these engage with the theme or not.

CHIME: Worldwide Platform for Chinese Music (https://www.chimemusic.net/)

New digital media provide for “repackaging” of traditions, access to distant events, gestures of sharing and commemoration, and spaces (and toolkits) for new creation, online learning, critical commentary, or playful remixing. We might study these situations in several ways:
•     as platforms and tools for new kinds of musical creation, curation, and participation
•     as spaces for new formats of presentation, repatriation, and commemoration
•     as settings where performance facets like musical expression, liveness, or authenticity are open to striking reformulations
•     as a source of musical materials, influences, threats, or inspirations
•     as contexts that raise expanded economic and reputational possibilities as well as ethical or legal concerns

We welcome proposals that address one or more of these questions, or which pose other questions related to the digital futures for Chinese music, as well as those relating to new research more broadly.… Read more ⤻

Olympia Summer Academy 2025

20th Jul 2025

European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece

14-19th Jul 2025
Deadline: 31st Jan 2025

The 2025 Olympia Summer Academy is co-organized by the Navarino Network and the China Program of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS).

This year’s course will run in two parallel cycles:

A: Geopolitical Risk Analysis
Kristin Fabbe, Chair in Business and Comparative Politics at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute.
Wolfango Piccoli, Co-president and Director of Research, Teneo.

B: Global China
Jérôme Doyon, Junior Professor at the Centre for International Relations (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris.
Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

More Info & How to Apply:
Information regarding the program and the application process can be found here (https://olympiasummeracademy.org/academy/olympia-summer-academy-2025/), or contact us at olympia@navarinonetwork.org.

Application deadline: January 31, 2025.

Participation Fees (including accomodation in double occupancy rooms, breakfast and lunch, tuition, reading material, counseling and extra-curricular activities): 550€.
Registration Fee (non-refundable, paid upon admission to secure a place): 50€.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: International Workshop “Gender, Diplomacy, and Global Connections in Modern Asia”

11th Jun 2025

Cardiff University, Wales, UK
10th Jun 2025

This one-day workshop explores different ways in which gender intersected with practices of formal and informal diplomacy in modern Asia.
We invite proposals from researchers of all career stages for 20-minute presentations.
Proposals considering the role of gender in international, transnational, transimperial, and decolonial histories with a focus on East Asia and Southeast Asia and its global connections in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are particularly welcome to apply.

School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
Keynote speaker: Professor Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol)

Potential topics/themes may include, but are not limited to:

  • Women and informal diplomacy
  • Women in international and transnational organisations
  • Gender and cultural diplomacy
  • Gender and war
  • Gender and propaganda
  • Gender and decolonisation
  • Masculinities
  • Gendered discourses in diplomatic sources

The workshop aims to be a starting point for a future publication project.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biographical note by 8 December 2024 to LopesH@cardiff.ac.uk… Read more ⤻

Special Issue: mediAzioni — “Advanced Technologies, Methods and Materials for Human Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective”

5th May 2025

Submission deadline: May 4th 2025

A special issue of the review “mediAzioni” (an international open-access, refereed journal that promotes interdisciplinary work in the humanities, https://mediazioni.unibo.it/), titled “Advanced Technologies, Methods and Materials for Human Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective,” is scheduled for November 2025 and will be edited by: Sabrina Ardizzoni, Marta Aurora, Claudia Buffagni, Anna Di Toro, Imsuk Jung, Andrea Scibetta (University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy).
The volume will gather research contributions related to:


• Identification of best practices and challenges in linguistic and cultural mediation in healthcare settings, with conversational analysis of mediated doctor-patient interaction.
• Data collection and reflections on narrative medicine as a methodology for improving relationships among doctors, patients, and caregivers.
• Analysis of corpora of audiovisual materials related to specialist-patient interactions and patient narratives.
• Data collection on robots and new technologies in caregiving, particularly regarding healthcare systems in East Asian countries where such tools are already widespread.… Read more ⤻

Sinophone Europe Conference

15th Dec 2024

13-14th Dec 2024
Florence, Italy

The primary goal of this conference is to bring new insights about European Sinophone studies, as well as to bridge the gap between researchers from Europe who explore the Sinophone “from” Europe and those who investigate the Sinophone “in” Europe, with a particular emphasis on the latter. Together, we will delve into what we call “Sinophone Europe” – a complex space where cultures, histories, and identities converge, intertwine, and evolve. The conference will take place on 13-14 December 2024, in Florence, Italy. The initiators of this project are Valentina Pedone (University of Florence) and Rebecca Ehrenwirth (University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich).

Website: https://sinophoneeurope.com/… Read more ⤻

Vacant Position: Chinese Language Lecturer 100%

18th Dec 2024

Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg
University of Heidelberg

The Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg is seeking to fill the position of a Chinese Language Lecturer
100% starting as soon as possible. The position is initially limited until 30th of September 2029.
Your tasks: The focus of the position is on teaching spoken and written Chinese (traditional and simplified characters), including the use of multimedia teaching methods. We are seeking an individual who is interested in contributing to the design of new multimedia teaching formats and the development of language teaching materials and tools. Teaching experience in the didactics of Chinese as a foreign language (as part of the teacher training programme in Chinese Studies) and teaching experience in Chinese dialects (e.g. Taiwanese and Cantonese) is also desirable. Experience with third-party funding in the field of language teaching and relevant publications in this area are welcomed.

Your profile: The ideal candidate will hold at least an M.A.… Read more ⤻

2024—2025 Enemy Encounters in East Asia Webinar Series

13th Feb 2025

16th Oct 2024—12th Feb 2025
Hybrid – Heidelberg, Germany | Zoom

By the Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” at Heidelberg University, Germany. As previously announced the Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 webinar series has come to a close, but it will be succeeded by this new webinar series.

“Ambivalent Enmity in the Last Days of the Imjin War (1592-99): The Case of Mao Guoke”
Wing Kin Puk
(Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• October 16, 2024, 4:00 PM (Heidelberg, CEST) via ZOOM.
• The webinar will be recorded, but not the question time.
• If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de.
In this session, Wing Kin Puk (Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong) will share his thoughts on ambivalent enmity during the Imjin War in Korea:

It is a well-known fact that belligerents keep fighting and negotiating with each other at the same time.… Read more ⤻

Member’s Publication: Christof Lammer

17th Oct 2025

Lammer, Christof. Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. New York: Berghahn Books. 2024.

Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia when they inform performances of the boundaries between state and non-state. This book shows how performative boundary work leads to contrasting judgements that decide about support and access to resources. In an ecological village in Sichuan, citizen participation in food networks and bureaucracy signaled Western liberalism, Maoism or traditional rural culture for different audiences. Attention to the multiplicity of performed state boundaries helps China studies and political anthropology to understand such diverging classifications – and how they sometimes co-exist without causing tensions.

Reviewers’ statements

“This book is of interest not just to scholars studying China but more generally to social scientists, particularly to social anthropologists to whom it advocates the infusion of the political to the study of kinship.… Read more ⤻

Vacant Position: Assistant Professor / Associate Professor (Substantiable-track) (240002GQ)

16th Nov 2024

Centre for China Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Closing Date: 15th Nov 2024

The Centre for China Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) seeks to appoint a faculty member to help further strengthen the study of modern and contemporary China in a global context. An interdisciplinary research and teaching unit that directly speaks to one of the University’s strategic areas for development, the Centre offers degree programmes at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Applicants trained in humanities disciplines with a focus on modern and contemporary China, especially those from the fields of anthropology, history, cultural and media studies, are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate should be able to teach courses in English to a diverse student body and is committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative pedagogy.

Applicants should have (i) a PhD degree in a relevant academic discipline; (ii) a clear research profile that contributes to and extends the existing strengths of the Centre; (iii) a strong record or potential of quality publications and grant applications; (iv) a strong dedication to teaching and student engagement.… Read more ⤻

International Conference “Unfolding the Coromandel Screen: Visual Mobility, Inscribed Objecthood, and Global Lives,” City University of Hong Kong

24th Nov 2024

Date: 22–23rd November 2024
City University of Hong Kong

Sponsored by Bei Shan Tang Foundation
Venue: Connie Fan Multi-Media Conference Room, 4/F, Cheng Yick-chi Building, City University of Hong Kong

During the second half of the seventeenth century, the production of Coromandel screens, also known as kuancai (“carved polychrome”), flourished along China’s southeast coast. These screens became immensely popular both domestically and in European markets, establishing connections between regional artisans, merchants, and prominent European figures, including royalty and nobility. In the last two decades of this century, Coromandel screens emerged as one of China’s most frequently exported commodities, rivaling porcelain and challenging Japanese lacquerware exports. Their significance extends far beyond the common perception of them as merely mass-produced craftwork of inferior quality.

With the generous support of the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong will host a two-part academic event titled “Unfolding the Coromandel Screen” to celebrate the department’s tenth anniversary.… Read more ⤻

Call for Applications: Two-year MA program – Chinese Studies

16th Feb 2025

Erlangen, Germany
Deadline: 15th Feb 2025

The Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia – Sinology of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg University (https://www.sinologie.phil.fau.de/) now invites applications for the new two-year MA program – Chinese Studies with an Optional Focus (https://www.sinologie.phil.fau.de/jgjuhz/ba-ma-moeglichkeiten/chinese-studies-with-an-optional-focus/) – that is completely taught in English.
It is open to all students who have a degree in Chinese history, literature, politics, cultural studies or any similar subject, good knowledge of Modern Standard Chinese, and English language proficiency of at least level C1 according to the CEFR. There are no tuition fees.

The application deadline for the upcoming summer term is 15 February 2025.

All interested students are invited to an info event where they can meet some of our lecturers and directly ask their questions about the program and studying at our department:
Tuesday 22 October 2024 at 10:00 Central European time / 18:00 Beijing time
on Zoom: https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/62337205135

In case of any questions, please write to Stefan Christ 石坤森 stefan.christ@fau.de… Read more ⤻

Call for Abstracts: The Legal Dimension of China’s Presence in Latin America

16th Nov 2024

Deadline (abstracts): 15th Nov 2024

This Call for Abstracts is a component of the Project “The Legal Dimension of China’s Presence in Latin America: Opportunities, Risks, and Responses” co-led by Dr. Monika Prusinowska (University of Barcelona) and Dr. Daniel Sprick (University of Cologne) as a part of the Cologne International Forum Innovative Tandem Collaboration.

The Project seeks to investigate the understudied intersection of China’s growing influence in Latin America and its legal implications. While economic, social, and political aspects have received considerable attention, the complex legal landscape remains relatively unexplored. This Project is intended to create a space, which could seed a community of expertise on the nexus of China, Latin America and Law. It offers an opportunity to contribute to this emerging field of study. We invite both junior and senior researchers to participate.

About the Project Stages:

Abstracts and Workshop

Following the submission of abstracts, selected participants will be invited to a workshop held at the University of Barcelona, Spain (see the timeline below).… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Kick-off conference “Towards ‘national rejuvenation’: Sun Yat-sen’s vision for China revisited”

8th Mar 2025

Traveling lecture series “China in der Welt/China in the world”

7th Mar 2025

Deadline: 7th Nov 2024

Organized by the China Knowledge Network (CKN) Germany at TU Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

2025 is the 100th year following Sun Yat-sen’s death on March 12, 1925. On the occasion of this centenary, our conference will explore the various dimensions of Sun’s contested legacy as linked to Chinese political, economic, and social developments from the Republican era until today.
We seek proposals for presentations (20–25 minutes) that (re)consider Sun Yatsen’s significance.

  • as an intellectual pioneer projecting China’s future socio-economic order as perceived in mainland China and Taiwan.
  • as a visionary of Chinese future realities.
  • in terms of his political legacy/ for Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping.
  • from a transnational perspective, as compared to other contemporary “founding fathers” such as Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin (1870–1924), Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) or Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938).

Scholars who are interested in participating are invited to submit proposals in English to tania.becker@tu-berlin.de… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Sonic Histories of East Asia

18th May 2025

Ca Foscari, University of Venice, Italy
15-17th May 2025
Deadline: 1st Nov 2024

Over the past decade, sonic approaches to East Asia have attracted scholars from across fields of history, literature, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and environmental humanities. This sonic turn, drawing on the ecumenical canon of Sound Studies, has added voice, tone, timbre, and even silence to existing narratives and frameworks of nation, empire, society, technology, revolution, race, and gender. At its best, work has gone further to not only foreground sound and hearing as a key aspect of experience and history, but to challenge or refine existing understandings, frameworks, and narratives. Importantly, this turn has also provided a set of shared topics and terms by which scholars of different regions and periods can meet, share work, and explore common themes.

It is in this spirit that a two-day workshop will be held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, from May 15-17, 2025. The workshop will focus on two potential directions for the field: First, on the possibility for sonic approaches to contribute to or challenge existing paradigms, temporalities, or national boundaries of East Asian history.… Read more ⤻

International Workshop “Mapping Taiwan Teaching – Teaching Taiwan in Script, Speech and Performance”

13th Sep 2024

7-9th Nov 2024
Trier University, Germany
Deadline: 12th Sep 2024

The Taiwan as a Pioneer (TAP) project at Trier University, Germany, is excited to announce a workshop for a diverse group of lecturers about Taiwan, including Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and established scholars. The workshop, scheduled from 7 to 9 November 2024, will be conducted in English, Chinese, German, and Taiwanese. We aim to delve into Taiwan-related class content subjects, develop teaching recommendations, and foster connections among Taiwan-related lecturers.

We are open to receiving paper submissions on various topics, focusing on teaching Taiwanese languages, culture, and related fields. The questions addressed in the presentations of this workshop can be theoretical as well as practical ones, such as:
• important aspects of Taiwanese language and culture for intercultural teaching of German- or English-speaking students
• influence of Taiwan’s different languages (Mandarin, Taiwanese Southern Min & Hakka, Austronesian languages) on language and especially culture classes
• application of literature, films, songs, podcasts, etc.… Read more ⤻

Member’s Publication: Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber

28th Aug 2025

Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber. Hier & Jetzt (Zurich), 2024, 352 p.

Hier & Jetzt, 2024

The books is based on extensive archival research, interviews with diplomats, business representatives, and sinologists, as well as a large number of (historical) newspapers and memoirs. We have also included numerous illustrations that have never been published before.

Table of Contents:

  1. Uhren und Bibeln, Opium und Kanonen 1644-1913
  2. Krieg, Krieg und nochmals Krieg 1913-1950
    Bildteil I
  3. Chinesische Kommunisten und das kapitalistische Paradies 1950-1960
  4. “Bewaffnet mit den Gedanken Mao Zedongs” 1960-1976
  5. Schweizer Goldgräberstimmung und Chinas Öffnung 1976-1989
    Bildteil II
  6. Massaker, Eklat und diplomatische Gratwanderungen 1989-1999
  7. Die Schweiz auf eigenen Wegen 1999-2024
    Anhang

For more information, please visit:
https://www.hierundjetzt.ch/de/catalogue/knusel-ariane-und-weber-ralph-die-schweiz-und-china_24000010/

Ariane Knüsel (Privatdozentin, University of Fribourg)
Ralph Weber (Associate Professor for European Global Studies, University of Basel)… Read more ⤻

Call for Applications: Research Fellow (f/m/d)

29th Aug 2024

Leipzig, Germany
Deadline: 28th Aug 2024

The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) conducts comparative research into the historical and cultural development processes in the region between the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Adriatic from late antiquity to the present day. The GWZO, which has been based in Leipzig city centre since 2010 and in Prague city centre from 2025, employs around 80 staff from Germany and abroad. At the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) the project “Melting Mountains: Environment, Society and the Vertical Climate Frontier in the Greater Altai (1950-2020)” will be realised in cooperation with the Leibniz Association until 31.08.2029.

The research project explores the climatic history of the Greater Altai Highlands in the Anthropocene (1950-2020) through the notion of the vertical climate frontier, focusing on how climate change threatens the traditional livelihoods of local people, making them more dependent on states and lowland societies.… Read more ⤻

Call for Applications: One-year postdoctoral scholarship at Ca’ Foscari University

18th Sep 2024

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Deadline: 17th Sep 2024

The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the scientific disciplinary sector CULTURES AND LANGUAGES OF CENTRAL, SOUTH, EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA – Cod. GSD 10/ASIA-01

Candidates should submit a research project in English on one of the topics and research themes within the scope of the Marco Polo Research Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections. The topics may cover different spaces, times (from Neolithic times to the present day), and themes (from modern geopolitics to religious identities, to archaeological sites). The main focus should be on trans-Eurasian interactions, intercultural contact, and exchange, particularly at the crossroads of the ostensible European-Asian divide. The project should be based on rigorous scholarship that would contribute to international academic conversations within and across diverse disciplines. These include but are not limited to history, international relations, economics, environmental studies, literature, languages, archaeology, art history, philosophy, religion, anthropology, geography, music, social sciences, and the digital humanities.… Read more ⤻

Workshop: Sinographic Forays into the Epiverse 游槃石刻文字山水

17th Oct 2024

15-16th Oct 2024
Paris, France

Organized by Lia Wei and Manuel Sassmann, Funded by the ANR (French Research Agency) project Altergraphy https://altergraphy.hypotheses.org/

Location: Auditorium du Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris

Inscriptions can open up a world extending far beyond chisel marks on the stone surface. In eight roundtables, we propose to explore the rich cultural history of epigraphy in East Asia. By striding out its multiple dimensions of time and space, both physical and imaginary, scholars from the sinographic sphere with diverse disciplinary backgrounds will attempt to chart together the Epiverse. The experimental format of this conference aims at facilitating present and future collaborations in the field, and defining common research paths on stone inscriptions and inscribed landscapes.

Guests: Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven); Yolaine Escande 幽蘭 (CNRS/CRAL/EHESS); Michael Hatch (Trinity College); Shao-Lan Hertel 何小蘭 (Cologne East Asian Art Museum); Lee Sunkyu (KU Leuven); Li Ziyi 李子怡 (China Academy of Art); Jonathan Pettit (University of Hawaii); Sakata Gensho 坂田玄翔; Thomas Hahn (UC Berkeley); Shi Tianyu (Hamburg University); Shin Jeongsoo 신정수 (Academy of Korean Studies); Yan Weitian 閻緯天 (Indiana University); Aida Yuen Wong 阮圓 (Brandeis University); Xue Lei 薛磊 (Oregon State University).… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Journal of Chinese Film Studies – A special issue on Transborder Flows and Chinese Cinemas

1st Sep 2024

Deadline: 31st Aug 2024
Ed. Chris Berry, Haina Jin

Chinese cinemas have always been characterised by transborder flows, both of foreign films flowing in and Sinophone films flowing out. What foreign films have been popular in Chinese-language territories, with what audiences, when, and why? What Chinese-language films have found audiences overseas, in what places, when, and why? And what forces and practices have shaped those transborder flows and what are the impacts and results of those flows? This special issue of Journal of Chinese Film Studies seeks to spotlight these under-explored topics. We seek proposals for 6,000-8,000 word scholarly articles on aspects of transborder flows and Chinese cinemas.

The persistent dominance of the outdated understanding of both national cinema as films produced in a certain territory and cinema as simply film texts has left transborder flows long neglected. Work such as Andrew Higson’s redefinition of national cinema as films viewed within a certain territory back in 1989 is now combining with research on distribution and exhibition by scholars such as Li Daoxin, Li Jie, Liu Guangyu, and Zhou Chenshu, along with work on transborder flows by scholars such as Huang Xuelei, Su Tao and Fu Yongchun to break the logjam and stimulate greater interest in the character and role of transborder flows in Chinese cinemas.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Upcoming Conference: Around the Sino-French Institute (1921-1950): student diaspora, circulation of knowledge and Sino-French institutional relations

29th May 2025

Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France
26–28th May 2025
Deadline: 30th Jul 2024

Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 – IETT (Institut d’Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles)
Exchanges between China and France in the field of education, and more particularly higher education, are still under-researched and under-recognised. Based on the experience of the Sino-French Institute in Lyon, the aim of this conference will be to retrace the history of exchanges between France and China in this particular field and to highlight the dynamics of these exchanges, from the first attempts by French missionaries to those that emerged in the first half of the 20th century. While the history of certain institutions has been the subject of recent research or publications, the links between them and the future of individuals who have passed through these structures, in China or in France, are still poorly documented. Although France’s commitment to education in China began very early (17th century), it was from the end of the 19th century onwards that both Chinese and French initiatives, religious and secular, multiplied and helped to create a dynamic that developed and grew until 1950, contributing to the circulation of knowledge and the establishment of networks of relations in a wide variety of fields (scientific, legal, literary, philosophical, artistic, medical, etc.).… Read more ⤻

Call for Applications: Resident Academic Full-Time Post in Chinese Studies

28th Aug 2024

University of Malta
Deadline: 14th Jul 2024

Applications are invited for a Resident Academic full-time post in Chinese Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures within the Faculty of Arts of the University of Malta.

The appointee will be required to contribute to the teaching, research, administration, outreach, and other activities of the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures within the Faculty of Arts, and as may be required by the University.

The appointment will be on initial definite four-year contract of employment. Following the successful completion of the one-year probationary period, the Resident Academic will commence a two-year Tenure Track process. At the conclusion of this two-year period of service, the Resident Academic will be subject to a Tenure Review.

Candidates must be in possession of a Ph.D. or D.Phil. in Chinese Studies obtained from a reputable university and demonstrate a sound, deep and broad knowledge of the discipline, as well as flexibility and team-working abilities.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: The 24th ISCP conference “Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy”

25th Jun 2025

Ljubljana, Slovenia
20-23rd Jun 2025
Deadline: 15h Oct 2024

“The conference will revolve around the compelling theme of “Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy”
The current crises, such as aggressive wars, severe environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, etc., are global problems that cannot be fully solved within the narrow framework of individual countries or nation-states. They must also be addressed within the larger framework of global cooperation and solidarity. Such strategies require the development of genuine intercultural dialogue, i.e., dialogue that goes beyond the currently fashionable terminologies and can lead to a truly equal transcultural exchange of knowledge and ideas. This conference aims to explore both traditional and contemporary Chinese philosophical perspectives, seeking their contributions towards crafting a new planetary ethos that emphasizes mutual understanding and practices of solidarity in confronting these universal challenges.

Download the official announcement’s PDF:

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Visit the conference website: https://iscp-online1.org/conferences/… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: China-Workshop “Iserlohn 2024”

30th Jul 2024

Schwerte, Germany
27-28 Jul 2024
Registration Deadline 15th Apr 2024

The “Iserlohn Network” is a loose circle of young social scientists working on China. Our annual workshop will be held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at Haus Villigst outside the town of Schwerte.

The workshop aims at young scholars looking to discuss their master’s theses, dissertations and habilitations as well as their completed or ongoing research projects, applications and academic articles in an informal setting. Beyond social science research on the Sinophone world, we also particularly welcome interdisciplinary work. Participants may present thematic trends and new findings from their own projects, their work on theoretical categorisations and practical methodology as well as related challenges. The workshop is intended as a platform for specific problems and receiving
constructive peer feedback.

We are looking forward to a diverse range of contributions! To facilitate networking among young sinology scholars, participation without a presentation is also possible.

Download the official announcement’s PDF:

Iserlohn-CFP-2024-updateDownload
… Read more ⤻

Vacant Position: Predoctoral University Assistant

1st Jul 2024

University of Vienna, Austria
Deadline: 30th Jun 2024

The Chinese Studies Section of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna invites applications for a Pre-Doc University Assistant position of the duration of 3 years.

At the Department of East Asian Studies, we pride ourselves on offering a dynamic environment with supportive colleagues and opportunities to engage in ongoing research
projects. Our Chinese Studies team currently comprises nine academic staff, three administrative personnel, and fourteen project associates. Our teaching and research
activities focus primarily on contemporary Sinophone cultures and societies, with an emphasis on social transformations, state-society relations, and visual and performance
cultures. We place a high value on fostering a collegial and harmonious working environment and actively encourage social and professional interaction within our team.
For an insight into our team and areas of focus, please visit: https://sinologie.univie.ac.at/
The employment duration is 3 years. Initially limited to 1.5 years, the employment relationship is automatically extended to 3 years if the employer does not terminate it within the first 12 months by submitting a non-extension declaration.… Read more ⤻

Center for Global Asia Postdoctoral Fellowships – AY 2024-2025

16th May 2024

Deadline: 15th May 2024

The Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai is pleased to announce the availability of two research positions for the study of intra-Asian interactions, starting fall 2024. One position is for a postdoctoral fellow working on colonial or pre-colonial (c. 1400–1800) port cities of the Indian Ocean world, including the South China Sea. This position offers an opportunity to spend two-three months at the European University Institute in Florence working with members of the “Factories of the Indian Ocean” research cluster led by Professor Giorgio Riello. The second position is for a postdoctoral fellow working on the Belt and Road Initiative, especially on issues concerning South and/or Southeast Asia.

Qualifications

Applicants should hold a PhD, preferably completed in the past five years (2019 and after), by fall 2024. Positions may be held for a period of up to two years. In addition to working on individual research and publication, the fellows are expected to assist in the activities of the Center.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: 26th CHIME Conference – Sustainability and Chinese Music

7th Oct 2024

University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover, Germany
Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim, Germany
3-6th Oct 2024

Urgent contemporary challenges have brought sustainability (可持续性) into sharp focus as a basic concern across musical worlds and research into music and sound. What are the historical and contemporary threats to the vibrancy of traditions and practices in Chinese music (technological, economic, political developments) and how have people acted to secure dynamic futures (heritage work, education, advocacy)? How has Chinese music been affected by the acute climate and environmental crisis, and can it become a potent force for change? Against these backdrops, how do individual musicians and researchers build lasting careers?

We welcome the following forms of proposal engaging with the broad theme of sustainability and Chinese music:

  1. Individual paper (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions): submit an abstract of max. 250 words
  2. Panel sessions of three to four papers: submit a panel abstract of max.
… Read more ⤻

International Conference: “Ming 命 as life-conditioning force and as malleable fate: Perspectives from old(er) age.”

19th Dec 2024

Ghent University, Belgium
16-18th Dec 2024
Deadline: 20th Jun 2024

Ming 命, often translated as ‘command’, ‘allotment’, ‘fate’, and more generally ‘life’, has up till today deeply pervaded Chinese societies. Within its continuous development in the three teachings (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism), ming has seen most of its intellectual debate in Confucian and later Neo-Confucian thought. In folk belief, ming knowns many interpretations and related practices, such as geomancy (fengshui 风水), fortune telling (suanming 算命), and face and palm reading (mianxiang 面相; shouxiang 首相).

Download this announcement’s PDF to read the full text:

CfP_Conference_Ming_Dec2024Download
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Call for Papers: Workshop: Apathy and Activation: Rethinking Political Passivity in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes

17th Nov 2024

Center for Modern East Asian Studies, Göttingen University, Germany
15-16th Nov 2024
Deadline: 30th Apr 2024

Organizers: Dr. Henrike Rudolph, Dr. Bertram Lang (Göttingen University)
In Western political science literature, political passivity is generally regarded either as a symptom of weakening democratic institutions or, if it is observed in an illiberal regime, as an expression of citizens’ acquiescence with authoritarian rule. This binary view in which civic engagement is situated on the democratic end of the spectrum of political systems, while “passive obedience” is associated with non-democratic rule, assumes that individual agency in the public sphere is preconditioned by a clear division of state and civil society as is characteristic of liberal democracies. On the contrary, autocratic systems are believed to offer little to no space for political activism beyond the ruling party or government. There is, however, also the possibility of constituting an alternative dichotomy in which the opposite of political passivity is not civic engagement but mobilization.… Read more ⤻

Vacant PhD Position in the research project «Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations»

1st May 2024

University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Deadline: 30th Apr 2024

The Unit of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) is inviting applications for a PhD Position (100%) in the research project «Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations»

Starting date 1 August 2024 (or by agreement). The position is limited to four years.

The successful PhD candidate will conduct research within the Ambizione project «Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Based on the example of the digitalization of agriculture through drones/UAVs in China, Germany and Switzerland, the overall objectives of this project are to gain an in-depth, actor-centered understanding of the challenges and opportunities of agricultural digitalization through drones, and to use this as a case for understanding broader reconfigurations of global hierarchies of digital technologies and knowledge. The project consists of two studies exploring the use of agricultural drones in the Sino-German context (PhD candidate) and in the Sino-Swiss context (PI).… Read more ⤻

Faculty Position in the History of Asia

23rd Apr 2024

University of São Paulo, Brazil
Deadline: 22nd Apr 2024

The Department of History at the University of São Paulo is seeking to appoint a tenure-track faculty member in History of Asia, whose research focuses on the Asian spaces rather than the European presence in Asia. Candidates who are proficient in Asian languages, have experience with Asian archives and sources, and are conversant with scholarly literature written in Asia by Asians will be preferred. The mission of the successful candidate is to establish and consolidate the field of History of Asia at the University of São Paulo.

Role:

  • Develop his/her own individual research project, present its results in academic events, and publish them in national and international publications.
  • Teach undergraduate surveys, advanced courses, and graduate seminars in the History of Asia, with particular focus on the Chinese, Indian and Japanese spaces.
  • Supervise individual students at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as coordinate collective research projects.
… Read more ⤻

University Lecturer in Chinese Language, fixed term

19th Apr 2024

University of Turku, Finland
Deadline: 18th Apr 2024

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 August 2024 – 31 July 2026.
The Department of Chinese is part of the School of Languages and Translation Studies. The School is an international centre for language study education and research.

Chinese Language degree studies focus on the contemporary Chinese language and expertise in linguistic communication, especially in the contexts of Chinese and international working life, global multilingualism as well as in digital interaction and communication. At Master’s level specialized Chinese modules are taught within the Language Specialist Degree Programme. The School of Languages and Translation Studies offers Chinese Language degree studies in interdisciplinary collaboration with the University of Turku Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS).… Read more ⤻

Deadline Extended: EACS Young Scholar Award 2024 (YSA)

16th Apr 2024

Deadline: 15th Apr 2024

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 YSA will be announced at the 25th biennial conference in Tallinn, Estonia, 27-30 August 2024.

Eligibility:

Candidates for the YSA should be 35 years of age or below (2022 YSA candidates must have been born in 1988 or later) AND their rank of academic employment should be below that of Associate Professor or Senior Lecturer, or the equivalent ranks in other systems.… Read more ⤻

Vacant Position: Assistant Professor in Political Science (Asian Politics)

6th Apr 2024

Dublin, Ireland
Deadline: 5th Apr 2024

The Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Political Science and Asian Politics, to commence on 1st September 2024. This is a tenure-track position.

Job Title : Assistant Professor in Political Science (Asian Politics)
Pay Scale : Lecturer
Closing Date : 05-Apr-2024 12:00 GMT/Dublin time

The School wishes to make the appointment in the area of Asian politics. The successful candidate will study some aspect of Asian politics, with the specific subregion (East Asia, South Asia, etc.) being open. Applications are welcome from the subfields of either comparative politics or international relations. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate outstanding excellence in teaching and have experience in teaching as lead instructor for a variety of modules. The successful candidate should be able to teach and supervise undergraduate and masters-level dissertation topics in various areas of political science, as well as to contribute flexibly across the range of the Department’s teaching needs.… Read more ⤻

Postdoctoral Researcher in Modern Chinese History (m/f/x)

15th Apr 2024

LMU, Munich, Germany
Application deadline: 14th Apr 2024

The Institute of Sinology at the Department of Asian Studies (Faculty for the Study of Culture) at the LMU Munich is the largest academic institution for Sinological Studies in southern Germany. With four professors and 15 other scholars, the institute has a broad expertise in China’s language, literature, politics and society, history and religion.

We are looking for you: Postdoctoral researcher in Modern Chinese History (m/f/x)

Faculty for the Study of Culture – Department of Asian Studies, Institute of Sinology
Full-time (100%) (40 hours/week)
Start date 2024-10-01 (limited to two years, 2026-09-30)

Your tasks and responsibilities:

We are particularly interested in candidates with a focus on the cultural, social, and political history of either the Republic of China (1912-present) or the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). We welcome candidates whose scholarship overlaps with the Institute’s current expertise in the non-Sinitic societies of Central Asia and the religious, philosophical, legal and institutional history of late imperial China.… Read more ⤻

International Conference: “Walking” Practices and Trades in East Asia. Traces and Techniques of Circulation on Foot: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives

19th Oct 2024

17 & 18th Oct 2024
Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
Deadline: 31st Mar 2024

D2iA – Asian Dynamics, Interactions, Interculturality – Until the arrival of various modern means of locomotion, there was “no alternative to walking for the vast majority of people”, as tells us Joseph A. Amato. Moving on foot seemed to be a necessity in many situations and, as Antoine de Baecque points out, walking is through time “a continual reinvention of a pedestrian tradition”: from shepherds and pedlars in the Alps to communities of Compagnonnage, from Tuareg caravanners to the Sami, not forgetting certain Native Americans such as the Sioux, there are peoples, practices and trades “whose very identity is pedestrian”.

What about East Asia, where, depending on the region, it took a relatively long time to modernise certain modes of transport? To what extent did this human “animal machine” made for the terrestrial locomotion, as described by the physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey, play a part in weaving the remarkable Est-Asian network, perhaps more often than we think by treading on paths, roads and tracks?… Read more ⤻

12 Month Fellowship on Contemporary Sinophone Literature

1st Apr 2024

Deadline : 29th Mar 2024

The Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Mediation of the University of Milan is announcing a 12-month research fellowship on contemporary Sinophone literature, titled “Reading Europe through contemporary Sinophone literature”.

WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?

The fellowship is part of the funded interdisciplinary research project “Re-Visualizing ‘the West’: geo-literary images of Europe in contemporary Sinophone writings”, led by Prof. Simona Gallo and funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and the European Union (“Next Generation EU”). The research project aims to critically investigate and interpret Europe as represented in contemporary Sinophone literature. It intends to examine the composite nature of European cultures offered by authors who have engaged with this continent, as well as to delve into the peculiarities of the symbolism of space, according to different degrees of proximity.

The research fellow will actively take part in research activities such as compilation of bibliographies, analysis of the relevant literature, and the dissemination of results through publications, conferences, and outreach activities.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: International Conference “Tradition and New Mission: Confucianism from the Perspective of Modernity”

8th Jul 2024

Trier University, Germany
6-7th Jul 2024
Deadline: 29th Apr 2024

The emergence and the development of the notion of “modernity” in Europe is related to the industrial revolution, the rise of cities and scientific progress. It is accompanied by spiritual renovations, like “renaissance”, “reformation” and “enlightenment”. Their basic ideas and values are still forming the way modern humans think and live, not only in Europe. This development is a continuing process and subject of constant discussion.

In the course of the reception of European culture, Confucianism also came into contact with ideas and values related to “modernity”. An exchange began, accompanied by conflicts and resistance, as well as a reflection upon its genuine values and potential for further development. This process is continuing today and leads also to the question, whether Confucianism might be able to develop a form of modernity appropriate for Chinese culture.

Taking a look at Confucianism from the perspective of “modernity” means on the one hand, to analyze how Confucianism looks at “modern” values and ideas, like individualism, subjective right, explicit expression of own interests, freedom, equality, rule of law, the culture of contract just to name a few, and to investigate whether there exist corresponding spiritual resources in its own tradition.… Read more ⤻

Revised & Extended Edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian 漢語大詞典

2nd Nov 2024

In collaboration with Shanghai Cishu Chubanshe 上海辞书出版社, a revised & extended edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian has been published: Hanyu Da Cidian Chongxin Paiban 《漢語大詞典》（重新排版）. It was created based on the original print data and is exclusively available as a digital resource at the following address:

https://www.hanyucidian.org

The digital dictionary platform includes numerous other reference works, such as a newly digitized version of the Kangxi Zidian 康熙字典, the Xiandai Hanyu Da Cidian 现代汉语大词典, and specialized works like the Zhonguo Wenxue Da Cidian 中国文学大辞典, Zhonguo Lishi Da Cidian 中国历史大辞典, or the Zhongguo Kaogu Wenxue Da Cidian 中国考古学大辞典. In total, over 120 volumes and databases are available. Interested individuals are offered free trial periods. Universities, libraries, and institutions can request separate test accounts upon inquiry.… Read more ⤻

Upcoming Online Workshop « Commentary and the Dissemination of Knowledge »

23rd Nov 2024

20-22nd Nov 2024
Deadline: 18th Mar 2024

« Illustration as a Mode of Commentary in Chinese Textual Traditions », the first workshop of the research program entitled « Commentary and the Dissemination of Knowledge », at the CRCAO (https://www.crcao.fr/), will take place online from the 20th to the 22nd of November 2024.
The call for paper and all information about the organization of the workshop are available on the conference website: https://commentillustrate.sciencesconf.org/
To submit a proposal, the deadline is March 18th 2024.… Read more ⤻

Summer School in Classical Chinese and Japanese/Kanbun (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Princeton University)

27th Jul 2024

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
1-26 Jul 2024
Deadline: 15th Apr 2024

Visit one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Learn Classical Chinese or Japanese/Kanbun in an international environment. Get academic credits during a summer abroad.

The Ca’ Foscari – Princeton Summer School in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun is globally unique in its kind. Its two tracks of comprehensive, grammar-focused instruction are designed to offer undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline of premodern China or Japan a solid linguistic foundation for the reading of classical texts.

Both tracks are taught by the principal instructors of the classical language programs at Ca’ Foscari and Princeton. In addition to language classes, students will follow a lecture series on topics in premodern Chinese and Japanese culture (history, literature, thought). Both tracks welcome students who are beginners in Classical Chinese or Japanese, as well as those who already have some background foundation.

Credits: 12 ECTS or equivalent of one full-year university course at Ca’ Foscari (60 classroom hours plus 16 hours of additional lectures)

Tuition: € 1.000 (access to University facilities and services, course materials and issue of final transcript)

Housing (optional): € 560 for doubleoccupancy or € 630 for single-occupancy housing for the entire duration of the course

Programme directors:

Professors Tiziana Lippiello (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

Martin Kern (Princeton University, USA)

Course Instructors

Prof.… Read more ⤻

Webinar Series: Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598

20th Jun 2024

The second half of the schedule of the Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 Project new Webinar Series will take place from March 2024 to June 2024. This will be the final semester of the Webinar because the Aftermath project will be ending in November this year. As in previous years, it will not be necessary to register again if you have already attended one of the webinars in the past. If you are new to our webinar series and wish to attend, please send an email to Dr. Barend Noordam (barend.noordam@uab.cat). The Zoom link to access the webinars will be sent a few days in advance. Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have further questions!

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Vacant Position in Contemporary China Studies at CNRS

21st Mar 2024

Deadline: 20th Mar 2024

The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is offering a Junior professorship (“Chaire de professeur junior”, full time 3-6 y. tenure track to full position at CNRS) in Chinese studies entitled “Knowledge of Contemporary China”. The tenure track comes with a EUR 200k research package provided by the “Agence Nationale de la recherche” for the duration of the tenure track.

The position is open to “Holders of a doctorate or a PhD or equivalent degree or applicants who have gained scientific qualifications or carried out scientific work deemed to be of an equivalent level. There is no restriction on the age or nationality of applicants. All CNRS positions are accessible to people with disabilities, with special arrangements for tests made necessary by the nature of the disability”.

Position description: “The centrality of China in the contemporary world is becoming increasingly apparent, whether on a French or European scale. The profile of the proposed CPJ (i.e.,… Read more ⤻

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Library Travel Grant 2024

26th Feb 2024

Deadline: 31st Mar 2024

Thanks to the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the EACS will continue the Travel Grant scheme in 2024. 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 not exceed one week. The award of a Travel Grant is subject to the availability of funds at the time of application.

Applications received before the deadline of 31st March 2024 will be considered within 3 weeks after receipt. Applicants should be paid-up EACS members based in Europe, but applications from non-members, especially from students and young scholars (up to 35 years), will also be considered 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 having priority. Once the grant has been approved, the beneficiary must use it within six months from the approval date.… Read more ⤻

Member’s Publication: Jana S. Rošker

12th Mar 2026
Springer, 2023

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 of some of her recent books. Two of these works, both published by Brill, are already freely available in Open Access format:

Furthermore, We are looking forward to the upcoming Open Access release of two additional titles, currently not yet available online:

Thank you for your attention and support.… Read more ⤻

Youth in Chinese History: Bibliography and Video-Papers

15th Feb 2025

The research project ‘Youth in Chinese History: Education and Representations of Young People in Chinese Sources between Tradition and Modernity,’ coordinated by Giulia Falato (University of Parma, former Oxford University) and Renata Vinci (University of Palermo), included the organisation of the Youth in Chinese History Workshop at the China Centre, University of Oxford, in September 2023. From this rich moment of exchange and dialogue, the idea arose to create digital resources to make the research of project participants available to the academic community and a broader audience.

On the project’s website, you can consult a thematic bibliography and a video-papers series produced by project participants on topics related to education and the representation of young people in imperial times. Both resources are constantly updated, so we invite you to visit the website and subscribe to the Youtube channel. You will already find the first four video-papers, and by subscribing to the channel, you will receive a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.… Read more ⤻

Olympia Summer Academy: Cycle C: The Rise of China

13th Jul 2024

Delphi, Greece
9-12th Jul 2024
Deadline: 29th Mar 2024

The Olympia Summer Academy and the European International Studies Association are pleased to announce the 22nd edition of their summer program in Politics and International Studies. Cycle C of the OSA is dedicated to China.

The Olympia Summer Academy will take place from July 9 to 12, 2024 at the European Cultural Center of Delphi.

The 2024 Olympia Summer Academy is co-organized by the Navarino Network, the European International Studies Association and the China Program of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS).

This year’s course will run in three parallel cycles:

A: Geopolitical Risk Analysis

Kristin Fabbe, Chair in Business and Comparative Politics at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute.
Wolfango Piccoli, Co-president and Director of Research, Teneo Intelligence.

B: Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Diego Muro, Associate Professor in International Relations, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St Andrews.… Read more ⤻

Call for papers: Volume on China and the Mediterranean in History

11th Mar 2024

University of Malta, Spain
Deadline: 10th Mar 2024

We are pleased to announce an open call for papers for an edited volume titled “China and the Mediterranean in History”. It will be edited by Wei Chen and Dennis Mizzi from the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Malta, with an anticipated publication date by the end of 2025.

The volume will explore the historical interactions between China and the Mediterranean from antiquity to the present by looking, among other things, at religious and cultural interactions, migration, foodways, material and technological exchange, literature, and language. The aim is to bridge the chasm between two major area studies—China and the Mediterranean—and show how this can be mutually beneficial.

We extend an invitation to scholars immersed in the examination of interactions between these two regions to submit abstracts (max. 300 words) for publication in the volume. Abstracts should be submitted by no later than 10 March 2024 to amcs@um.edu.mt.… Read more ⤻

Workshop “Illustration as a Mode of Commentary in Chinese Textual Traditions”

23rd Nov 2024

Paris, France
20-22nd Nov 2024
Deadline: Mar 18th

We are delighted to inform you of the call for papers for the workshop Illustration as a Mode of Commentary in Chinese Textual Traditions” to be held in November 2024, in Paris, France, and online.
Numerous texts have given rise to illustrations in the course of their transmission, whether literally supplemented by images or figures, or enriched by discourses suggesting parallels, reformulating or arguing by example. By juxtaposing images or other texts, illustration, literally or figuratively, establishes a dialogue with a source text and questions its content. It is this notion of illustration, of exemplification, of image, that we propose to explore, as part of a research program exploring the critical tradition of commentary in China, and its role in the transmission of knowledge.
Please visit our website for all information: https://commentillustrate.sciencesconf.org
Thank you for your attention and for spreading the word!
Rainier Lanselle, Marie Bizais
East Asian Civilizations Research Centre (CRCAO), Paris, France

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC)

15th Feb 2025

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) has gone to press. It is available online here: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/mclc/35/2. Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier

Table of Contents for Volume 35, Number 2 (Winter 2023):
“Note from the Editors,” by Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier
“Passion and Passio: The Chahua nü and Late Qing Courtesan Narratives,” by Tony D. QIAN
“Modernizing Classical Poetics and Cultural Traditions: Wu Mi’s Enterprise of Rewriting George Gordon Byron,” by Hanjin YAN
“’A Wider and Stranger Space’: World Literature and World-building in Xue Yiwei’s Fiction,” by Pamela HUNT
“Knowing the World and Educating the Self: Reportage in Chinese Left-Wing Culture in 1936,” by Ying XIONG
“Toward a Regime of Emotional Authenticity: Eileen Chang’s Literary Transmediation of Theater and Cinema in Two 1940s Love Stories,” by Renren YANG
“Patior Ergo Sum: Date Surveillance and Necropolitics in Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy,” by LYU Guangzhao… Read more ⤻

6th BAAS (Baltic Association for Asian Studies) conference on the “Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Accelerated Globalization”

27th May 2024

Riga, Latvia
23-26th May 2024
Deadline: 25th Mar 2024

Dear esteemed colleagues and scholars,
We are delighted to invite you to present your paper at our upcoming conference on the dialogue of Asian civilizations, which have experienced intense transformations, from a new angle evaluating their ancient traditions along with Western influences and offering universally relevant ideas based on the Asian heritage in times of accelerated globalization. This event aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and experts from diverse fields to explore the possibilities for the further evolution of the world from the perspective of the strategies proposed by Asian countries.
Conference Details:
· Date: May 23-26, 2024
· Venue: University of Latvia, Raiņa bulvāris 19, Riga, Latvia
Latvian Academy of Sciences, Akadēmijas laukums 1, Riga, Latvia
· Theme: Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Accelerated Globalization
· Working language: English
Conference homepage address with a link to the registration sheet:
https://www.baas2024.lu.lv/
conference e-mail: baas2024lv@gmail.com

Looking forward your participation,
Agnese Haijima
Associate Professor
University of Latvia
Department of Asian studies

Download this announcement’s PDF:

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Workshop “Eurasian zones of contact: The Russian and Qing empires”

18th May 2024

Dublin, Ireland
17th May 2024
Deadline: 29th Feb 2024
This one day workshop, held at University College Dublin on 17 May 2024, develops international collaboration on zones of contact between the Russian Empire (1721-1917) and the Qing Empire (1636/1644-1912). These zones are, on the one hand, geographically defined borderlands in Central, Inner, and East Asia, and, on the other hand, cultural, intellectual, political, and economic spaces wherein people from these two empires (and beyond) met and interacted. The workshop seeks to generate conversation about local and regional entanglements, networks, and exchanges across these vast Eurasian territories. While conventional histories of the two empires have treated them as two separate political entities, the workshop aims to adopt transregional and transnational approaches to overcome the narrow and traditional idea of territory – and in doing so, to propose alternative spatial, economic, and cultural histories of the region that contribute to attempts to de-nationalise and de-territorialise the historiography.
Confirmed speakers:
• Sören Urbansky (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “Yellow Peril in Vladivostok: The Chinese Diaspora in Russia and the Soviet Union”
• Yuexin Rachel Lin (Leeds): “Frontier activism, ‘rights recovery’ and international law: Early Sino-Soviet relations revisited”
• Meng Zhang (Vanderbilt): “Inter-ethnic commercial disputes on the Qing Inner Asian frontier”
• Eric Schluessel (George Washington): “Mazars, Merchants, and Immiseration: Pious Economy and Chinese Capital in Turn-of-the-Century Xinjiang”

We now invite proposals for papers of 15 minutes in length from PhD and Postdoctoral researchers.… Read more ⤻

Conference “Writing as Visual Experience”

23rd Sep 2024

University of Cambridge, UK
20–22nd Sep 2024
Deadline: 31st Mar 2024

The VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) at the University of Cambridge is now accepting paper proposals for its first conference.

Writing is an intrinsically visual practice. How script looks—and how it is seen—are often of crucial importance. This conference asks how we may approach the study of the visual aspects of writing. What factors contribute to the way writing looks? How socially and culturally dependent are they? What difference does it make to think of writing as a visual phenomenon and practice? What sensory and aesthetic factors attend the production of written material and encounters with them, by people of differing levels of literacy?

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds and approaches to explore methodologies for studying these aspects of writing practices. We invite papers that address these questions from a wide range of perspectives (e.g.,… Read more ⤻

International Conference “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond.”

12th Jul 2024

University of Cambridge, UK
8–10th Jul 2024
Deadline: 23rd Feb 2024

This international conference aims to bring together scholars working on practices of record-keeping, historiography, and hagiography in the Buddhist tradition and in related cultural fields. Recent years saw a steadily growing interest in the impact of Buddhism on historiography and hagiography, in tandem with an unprecedented increase in the availability of textual and visual primary sources. Ambitious digitization projects and the changing landscape of the digital realm offer new opportunities to study premodern and contemporary practices of writing and narration. In this three-day conference, we seek to foster an interdisciplinary discussion on practices of textual and visual recording, storytelling, and memory in Chinese Buddhism and beyond – past, present, and future.

本次國際會議旨在匯集從事佛教傳統及相關文化領域研究的學者，探討文獻保存、史學書寫與聖徒傳記等主題。近年來，學界對佛教之於史學和傳記的影響產生日益濃厚的興趣，同時可用的文本及視覺一手材料也前所未有地增加。宏大的數位化項目（尤其是古代資源）及數位領域的變化為研究古代和當代的書寫及敘事實踐提供了新的機會。在這場為期三天的會議中，我們著眼於文字及視覺記錄、故事講述與記憶保存等方面，希望促進有關中國佛教及其他文化語境（過去、現在和將來）的跨學科討論。

This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟 Foundation and hosted by the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.

此次會議由台灣佛教慈濟基金會慷慨贊助，並由劍橋大學亞洲和中東研究學系主辦。

The conference will take place at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 8-10 July 2024 (08/07/2024-10/07/2024).… Read more ⤻

Members’ Publications: Voiced and Voiceless in Asia

3rd Feb 2025

Zawiszová, Halina, ed. / Lavička, Martin, ed. Palacky University Olomouc 2023.

This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme – Voiced and Voiceless in Asia – from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The chapters are broadly divided into two parts: (1) Politics and Society, and (2) Arts and Literature, although the texts included in the second part also deal with social themes. In addition to historical topics, such as Japanese colonialism or Chinese agricultural reforms in the 1950s, the volume also addresses current issues, including restrictive Chinese policies in Xinjiang, Japanese activist movements against gender-based violence and discrimination, or the problems of migrant laborers in India and performing arts in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, it provides insight into satirical woodblock prints from the Boshin War period or works of literature produced in Japanese leprosariums in the first half of the 20th century, as well as into selected topics in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Sinophone Tibetan literature.… Read more ⤻

Summer School on Modern Asian Literatures and Cultures

10th Feb 2024

Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Deadline: 26th May 2019

The 2019 summer school is dedicated to the modern Asian cultural record. For the purpose of this summer school, we include literature, film, music and art, focussing primarily on China, but the school also covers topics related to Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Leading experts from around the world will offer theoretical and comparative courses resonating with the school’s central theme: the tension between the local tradition and modernity.

Local tradition includes religion, philosophy, local custom and folklore. Modernity is the complex of capitalism, communism, consumerism, free market economy, and globalisation, jointly shaping the South and East Asian cultures. In particular, the school focuses on the latest developments in Asian fantasy literature, including internet literature, modern historiographic fiction, and science fiction.

The notion of literature here includes the full written cultural record, including its visualisations (film, theatre, comics, etc.) in the modern Asian cultures using both primary texts and translations.… Read more ⤻

1-2 fully funded PhD positions in East and South-East Asian Studies

17th Feb 2024

Lund University, Sweden
Deadline: 15th Feb 2024

The Centre announces 1-2 fully funded PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Visit the following link to read the full announcement: https://www.ace.lu.se/article/1-2-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies… Read more ⤻

Sixth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar Workshop “First Books in the Ancient World”

27th Sep 2024

International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures
Renmin University of China, Suzhou, PRC
22–26th Aug 2024
 
The International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures (ICSATC) at Renmin University of China, holds its sixth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar workshop on August 22–26, 2024, in Suzhou (near Shanghai). Four renowned scholars from Ancient Chinese, Greek, and Latin Literature will present lectures and seminars on the topic of “First Books,” that is, the early development of book culture in these different ancient civilizations. Student research activities will complement the lectures. The principal language of instruction and interaction is English.

Meeting Place: Renmin University of China, Suzhou campus

Instructors:
Prof. emeritus Glenn Most, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Greek Literature)
Prof. emeritus Denis Feeney, Princeton University (Latin Literature)
Prof. Jianwei Xu, Renmin University of China (Chinese Literature)
Prof. Martin Kern, Princeton University (Chinese Literature) 

Schedule:
August 21: Arrival and registration
August 22–25: Lectures, seminars, and research activities
August 26: Student presentations and plenary conclusion

Following the workshop, students are invited to stay in Suzhou, a World Heritage site for its beautiful gardens and canals, for an international conference on the same topic, to be held on August 28–29.… Read more ⤻

JEACS, Volume 4, 2023 «Culture and Memory»

1st Sep 2024

The editorial committee of the JEACS is happy to announce that vol. 4 (2023) is now online.

Each contribution may be downloaded here: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/issue/view/652

Volume 4 contains a special section on « Culture and Memory » along with one separate research article, one spotlight on Sinology, seven book reviews, and a list of PhDs defended in 2022-2023 (at European institutions).

The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (JEACS) is a fully open access journal funded by EACS All content is ready to be downloaded from everywhere and free of charge. No login, no individual subscription fees, no paywall, no so-called “author processing fees” or hidden transfer-payments by subscriptions of your library or funding organization.

We encourage our authors and readers to store and make available content of the JEACS in their repositories and websites all over the world and to distribute it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permit unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.… Read more ⤻

Workshop on West Lake History and Landscape Culture

27th Jan 2024

Hybrid | Granada University, Spain
25-26nd Jan 2024

We are launching a workshop on West Lake history and landscape culture on January 25-26, 2024 (10:00-6:00 pm, CET) at Granada University. The event will go hybrid. If you are interested, you can find the schedule and register link here:) https://www.westlakegranadaworkshop.com/home

We also have a small travel fund for graduate students that now calls for applications, details can be found at https://www.westlakegranadaworkshop.com/travel-fund. For further information, please contact: For further information on the workshop, please contact Antonio José Mezcua López (Granada University), amezlopez@ugr.es; Xiaolin Duan (NC State) xduan4@ncsu.edu. Thank you.

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12 months postdoc/research assistant position on narratives of Artificial Intelligence in China

25th Dec 2023

University of Cagliari (Italy)
Deadline: 18th Dec 2023

Project title: “Public opinion on AI in China. The ‘social’ reception of official and media discourse”

Funds: STARTUP (PNR) 2023 – F25F21002720001 (National research grant)
The research project at the Department of Humanities, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari investigates the institutional and journalistic narratives on Artificial Intelligence in the Italian and the Chinese political and social contexts, as well as their reception by the respective public opinions. In particular, the grant holder will study the reception of the Chinese institutional and journalistic discourse on AI by Chinese public opinion. They will collect data mainly on Chinese social media platforms and carry out a discourse analysis of the opinions expressed by the users. The activities are part of the STARTUP research project “Artificial intelligence and human perception: media discourse and public opinion in Italy and China”, which involves scholars of Chinese language and culture, Italian linguistics and political science.… Read more ⤻

Research Scholar Position (f/m/d) in Chinese History (pre-Song) or Archaeology

25th Feb 2024

Heidelberg, Germany
Review begins: 1st Jan 2024

Am Institut für Sinologie, Zentrum für Ostasienwissenschaften der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ist zum Sommersemester 2024 (idealerweise zum 1. April) eine Stelle als

Akademischer Mitarbeiterin (w/m/d) befristet zu besetzen. Die Stelle ist der Klassischen Sinologie (Prof. Giele) zugeordnet.

Ihre Aufgaben:

· Forschung: Berufliche Weiterqualifikation durch eigenständige Forschung und wissenschaftliche Publikationen auf dem Gebiet des vormodernen China (vor Song-Zeit) und mit historischen und/oder archäologischen Fragestellungen

· Lehre: Eigenständige Durchführung von Lehrveranstaltungen im Rahmen der Bachelor- und Master-Studiengänge im Umfang von vier Semesterwochenstunden (siehe https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/studies/ba_de.html und https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/studies/ma_de.html)

· Akademische Selbstverwaltung: Unterstützung der Professur in Forschung, Lehre und Betreuung der Studierenden sowie aktive Mitarbeit bei organisatorischen und administrativen Aufgaben sowie der generellen – universitätsinternen wie auch öffentlichen – Repräsentation des Faches und des Bereiches Klassische Sinologie nach außen

Ihr Profil:

· Vorzugsweise mit der Promotion abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium der Sinologie oder Geschichte oder Archäologie (jeweils mit China-Bezug)

· Teamfähigkeit

· Exzellente Kenntnisse der vormodernen und modernen chinesischen Standardsprache und Schrift

· Fähigkeit, fließend in englischer und deutscher Sprache zu kommunizieren und zu unterrichten, bzw.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Unfolding the Coromandel Screen: Visual Mobility, Inscribed Objecthood, and Global Lives

26th Jan 2024

Hybrid | City University of Hong Kong
22-25th Nov 2024
Deadline: 20th Jan 2024

Coromandel Lacquer Screen (detail)

With the generous support of the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong will host a two-part academic event titled “Unfolding the Coromandel Screen” in celebration of the department’s tenth anniversary. This four-day event will bring together an international group of art historians, museum curators, conservators, collectors, and global historians to delve into various facets of the Coromandel screen and its intricate histories of interrelations with paintings, prints, decorative arts, palatial and interior designs, global maritime trade, and the fashion industry. The conference, organized by Wang Lianming (City University of Hong Kong) in collaboration with Mei Mei Rado (Bard Graduate Center, New York), will take place on-site at City University of Hong Kong and via Zoom on November 22-23. The keynote speech will be delivered by Jan Stuart, the Melvin R.… Read more ⤻

Vacant Position: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese Literature

1st Feb 2024

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Deadline: 31st Jan 2024

The Department of Chinese Language and Literature, a pioneering academic unit within the Faculty of Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), invites applications for an open-rank tenure-track or tenured professorship (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) in 20th century Chinese literature, and film and multimedia studies. We are particularly interested in scholars pursuing interdisciplinary and transcultural research. The successful candidate should have a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research. We seek a dynamic scholar who combines deep knowledge of modern Chinese literature and culture with a strong commitment to comparative and interdisciplinary research, and to teaching and mentoring that will attract a diverse student body. Applicants are welcome to include a brief description of how they would contribute to this goal in their cover letter.

Applicants should have (i) a PhD degree in the relevant discipline; (ii) a strong research background in areas that will contribute or add to the existing strengths of the Department; (iii) a track record of scholarly research and publications as well as potential for research grant writing; and (iv) a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and scholarship.… Read more ⤻

China Work Group 2024. Current Challenges in Research and Teaching

3rd Jun 2024

Munich, Germany
1-2nd Jun 2024

The annual conference of the China Work Group (China-AG) will take place at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich on June 1st and 2nd, 2024.
The goal of the China AG as a work group of young scholars from the field of Chinese cultural studies of the German-speaking sphere, founded in 1992, is to further exchange between junior scholars in Sinology and connected disciplines. The annual conference serves to present ongoing or recently finished research projects, as well as to discuss current challenges in university teaching. Contributions dealing with occurring problems of junior scholars (research contents as well as practical) and how to constructively cope with them are of particular interest.
Junior scholars (including those interested in a doctorate, PostDocs, etc.) are cordially invited to hand in title and a brief description (ca. 200‒250 words) of their presentations. Contributions on all academic topics relating to China are welcome, especially including interdisciplinary approaches, as well as suggestions of desired topics for the discussion of academic teaching.… Read more ⤻

Vacant Position: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor in classical Chinese poetics and literary criticism

1st Jan 2024

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Deadline: 31st Dec 2023

The Department of Chinese Language and Literature is one of the founding academic units of the Faculty of Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Since its establishment in 1963, the Department has made pivotal contributions to the University’s core mission of combining tradition with modernity and bringing together China and the West. It is now recognized as one of the most important departments for the study of Chinese language and literature in Asia and the world. Our four main areas for research and teaching are Chinese linguistics, ancient Chinese texts, classical Chinese literature and modern Chinese literature. With four research centres under the Department, we actively engage in research and programmes for social impact. Further information about the Department is available at http://www.chi.cuhk.edu.hk/.

Read the full job description at: External Link …… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: The 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)

1st Sep 2024

Tallinn, Estonia
27–30th Aug 2024

The conference is organized by the EACS in collaboration with the Department of Asian Studies at the Institute of Humanities of Tallinn University (TLU). Scholars in all areas of Chinese Studies from Europe and beyond are kindly invited to submit their proposals for contributions in one of the following disciplinary categories:

  1. Language and Linguistics
  2. Chinese as Foreign Language, Education
  3. Literature (Premodern)
  4. Literature (Modern)
  5. Philosophy and History of Thought
  6. History (Premodern)
  7. History (Modern)
  8. Religion
  9. Law
  10. Economics
  11. Politics and International Relations
  12. Art and Archaeology
  13. Museum Studies and Material Culture
  14. Environmental Studies
  15. Anthropology and Sociology
  16. Digital Humanities
  17. Music, Media, and Performing Arts
  18. Gender and Queer Studies
  19. Science, Technology and Medicine
  20. Sinophone Worlds
  21. Interdisciplinary field

The board accepts proposals in the following formats:

  1. Individual paper proposal: abstract, max. 250 words.
  2. Panel proposals: panel abstract, max. 250 words; names of the panel organizer, chair, participants, and optionally a discussant; 3-4 individual abstracts, with max. 250 words each.
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Webinar “Demographic Impact of the Imjin War: A Focus on Marital Age Difference as Recorded in Early Seventeenth-Century Korean Household Registers”

23rd Nov 2023

22nd Nov 2023
3:00 PM (Barcelona, CET) via ZOOM.
Han Sangwoo & Lee Byungho
(Assistant Professor, Ajou University, Suwon & Professor, Ajou University, Suwon)

• The lecture will not be recorded.
• If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact barend.noordam@uab.cat.
• If you already registered for previous seminars, there is no need to register again.

This is the fourth session of the webinar series 2023-2024 of the ERC project team, “Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598”. In this session, Han Sangwoo (Assistant Professor, Ajou University, Suwon) and Lee Byungho (Professor, Ajou University, Suwon) will share their thoughts on the demographic impact of the Imjin War.

BACKGROUND
The “Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598” project is a five year, European Research Council Starting Grant project (2018-2023) run by ICREA professor Rebekah Clements at the Department of Translation, Interpreting, and East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The project seeks to understand the legacy of the East Asian War of 1592-1598, also known as the Imjin War and Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea.… Read more ⤻

Call for Papers: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (JEACS), Volume 5 (2024)

18th Dec 2023

Deadline: 17th Dec 2023

For its fifth volume, the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (JEACS) invites scholars to submit papers on Exegesis and Commentary in the pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese world. We welcome unpublished papers that consider commentary as textual material and analyse its linguistic, stylistic, and rhetorical dimensions. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Margins, marginality, and page layout,
  • Commentaries, legitimacy, and canonization,
  • Gloss, elucidation, explanation, and translation,
  • Ways of rephrasing, relocating, illustrating, re-expressing,
  • Layers of exegetical texts: accumulation, digression, or dialogue,
  • Intellectual traditions and knowledge transmission,
  • Types of relations between base text and commentaries,
  • Commentaries as separate texts,
  • Genre-dependent commentaries,
  • Reading transformations and the performativity of commentary,
  • Self-commentary.

Deadline: December 17th 2023

Papers written in English (max. 10,000 words) should be supplemented with an abstract and 5 keywords in both English and Chinese, and should follow the Author Guidelines and Style Sheet provided on the submission webpage:
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/about/submissions… Read more ⤻

Members’ Publications: The ENP-China project

19th Jun 2024
The ENP-China project is pleased to announce the release of the Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC) [https://bdoc.enpchina.eu/], an online resources created by historian David Serfass (Inalco). The BDOC seeks to address a significant lacuna in the scholarship surrounding the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945). The current tally of entries stands at 170, but this number is anticipated to grow steadily, aspiring to emulate the breadth and depth of “the Boorman”. The vision for the BDOC is to evolve into a collaborative endeavor, uniting historians specializing in occupied China. Please check out the full presentation of the  Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (BDOC) on the ENP-China reasearch blog [https://enepchina.hypotheses.org/5304].

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Vacant Tenured/Tenure-Track Position: Chinese Diaspora

16th Nov 2023

Application Deadline: 15th Nov 2023

NYU Shanghai is currently inviting applications for a position at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor in the department of Global China Studies, with a focus on Chinese diaspora / Sinophone literature, film, and/or media.

We seek candidates who have completed a Ph.D. in Chinese studies, literary studies, cinema studies, media studies, or a closely related discipline. Those with expertise in postcolonial discourse, inter-Asia connections, or the Global South (broadly conceived) are particularly encouraged to apply. We especially welcome candidates whose research interests complement those of our current faculty in Global China Studies, Humanities, and/or Interactive Media Arts (IMA). The selected candidate is expected to teach undergraduate courses that advance research and analytical skills on topics related to the Chinese diaspora and supervise senior capstone thesis. The candidate should also actively engage in campus-wide service, research initiatives, and events.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research, statement of teaching interests, and one writing sample via Interfolio.… Read more ⤻

Members’ Publications: Helena F. S. Lopes

29th Sep 2024
Cambridge University Press, 2023

Helena F. S. Lopes, Cardiff University, Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023

The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpacks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests, including Chinese Nationalists, Communists and collaborators with Japan, Portuguese colonial authorities and British and Japanese representatives. Lopes argues that neutrality eased the movement of refugees of different nationalities who sought shelter in Macau during the war and that it helped to guarantee the maintenance of two remnants of European colonialism – Macau and Hong Kong.… Read more ⤻

Vacant Position: Assistant Professor in Classical Chinese and Middle-Period China

9th Dec 2023

Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Deadline: 8th Dec 2023

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor in Classical and Literary Chinese and Middle-Period China in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge UK, starting on 1 September 2024.

The successful candidate will deliver teaching in classical and literary Chinese at all levels, to the highest standard, as well as lectures and seminars on pre-modern China at undergraduate and graduate level. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the administration of the Chinese Studies program, offer supervisions (small-scale tutorials), and supervise research students at both the master’s and doctoral levels. An outstanding command of classical and literary Chinese is a prerequisite.

The successful applicant will engage in high-level research and publish in their specialist field. We invite applicants whose research and teaching interests are in medieval and middle-period China, broadly conceived here as the period from the end of the Han to the end of the Yuan.… Read more ⤻

Member’s Publications: Thorben Pelzer

29th Sep 2024
Brill, 2023

Pelzer, Thorben, 2023. Engineering Trouble: US–Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905–1945. China Studies, Volume 52. Boston: Brill, 2023.

In the early twentieth century, the first large batch of Chinese civil engineers had graduated from the USA, and together with their American senior colleagues returned to China. They were enthusiastic about reconstructing the young republic by building new railways, highways, and canals, but what the engineers experienced in China, including mismanaged railways, useless highways, and silted canals, did not always meet their expectations and ideals. In this book, Thorben Pelzer makes the stories of these Chinese and American engineers come to life through exploring previously unpublished letters, rare images, maps, and a rich biographical dataset. He argues that the experiences of these engineers include a myriad of contradictions, disillusionment, and discontent, keeping the engineering profession in a constant flux of searching for its meaning and its place in Republican China.

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Call for Papers: Conference “Asia in the mirror: self-representations, self-narratives, and perception of the other”

21st Mar 2024

University of Cagliari, Italy
18-20th Mar 2024
Deadline: 27th May2024

The 21st century has been defined as the “Asian century”, a new global phase after the European and the American centuries. (Mahbubani 2022). If “the future is Asian” (Khanna 2019), Asia’s role as the leading continent calls for a radical rethinking of Western political and cultural epistemic categories, prompting scholars to build on the emphasis placed by Chakrabarty (2000) on “antihistorical collective memory of the past” applied to Asia.
We invite scholars working in a range of disciplinary fields including literature, linguistics, history, and cultural studies to submit proposals pertaining, but not limited, to the following research questions:
What is Asia from a cultural point of view?
How has Asia represented itself in its diversity and/or to different cultures?
How has Asia represented other cultures?
How have other cultures represented Asia?
How have contacts between Asia and other cultures shaped the continent?
What is the role of postcolonial and decolonial approaches in enhancing our understanding of Asia and its entanglements?… Read more ⤻