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Sunday, September 15th, 2024
Members’ Publication: “Die Schweiz und China – von den Opiumkriegen bis zur neuen Seidenstrasse” (Switzerland and China – from the Opium Wars to the new silk road)
Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber. Hier & Jetzt (Zurich), 2024, 352 p.
The books is based on extensive archival research, interviews with diplomats, business representatives, and sinologists, as well as a large . . .
Call for Applications: One-year postdoctoral scholarship at Ca’ Foscari University
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
<!– wp:paragraph . . .Workshop: Sinographic Forays into the Epiverse 游槃石刻文字山水
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 . . .
Call for Papers – Upcoming Conference: Around the Sino-French Institute (1921-1950): student diaspora, circulation of knowledge and Sino-French institutional relations
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, . . .
Call for Papers: The 24th ISCP conference “Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy”
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 . . .
Call for Papers: 26th CHIME Conference – Sustainability and Chinese Music
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 . . .
International Conference: “Ming 命 as life-conditioning force and as malleable fate: Perspectives from old(er) age.”
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 . . .
Call for Papers – Workshop: Apathy and Activation: Rethinking Political Passivity in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes
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 . . .
International Conference: “Walking” Practices and Trades in East Asia. Traces and Techniques of Circulation on Foot: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives
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 . . .
Revised & Extended Edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian 漢語大詞典
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:
Upcoming Online Workshop « Commentary and the Dissemination of Knowledge »
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 . . .
Members’ Publications: Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy
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 . . .
Youth in Chinese History: Bibliography and Video-Papers
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. . . .
Workshop “Illustration as a Mode of Commentary in Chinese Textual Traditions”
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 . . .
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC)
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 . . .
Conference “Writing as Visual Experience”
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 . . .
Members’ Publications: Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
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 . . .
Sixth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar Workshop “First Books in the Ancient World”
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 . . .
Open Positions in Modern Chinese Literature
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Deadline: 31st Jan 2023
Open positions – Professor(s) / Associate Professor(s) / Assistant Professor(s) in Modern Chinese Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department/ Institution: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Call for Papers: Youth Political Mobilization and Socialization in Contemporary China
8th Sep 2022 (All day)
Virtual event, registration required
Deadline: 30th Mar 2022
2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团, CYL), one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize . . .
Members’ Publications: Xiaoyan Hu
The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes. Published by Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield), 320 Pages, 2021.
In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in . . .
CrossAsia Online-Survey: “Chinese Studies Research Conditions in Europe”
Deadline: 5th Sep 2021
Between research needs and access to resources – Getting an overview of the situation in different countries in Europe
Despite the growing importance of Asia-related expertise, European researchers and their communities often have only limited access to digital material published on Asian and international markets because researchers are comparatively small in number and dispersed over institutions, countries . . .
Statement by the EACS Board regarding the sanctions issued by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs against European China researchers
The European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) supports and advocates for independent academic research on China and hence disapproves of the People’s Republic of China’s reaction to foreign governments’ and administrations’ diplomatic actions by holding directly responsible academic researchers, their relatives, and their institutions in Europe. As an independent professional academic association of European scholars, EACS trusts in the . . .
In Memoriam: Stefano Zacchetti
Professor Stefano Zacchetti, who died on 29 April 2020 at the age of 52, was one of the world’s most distinguished scholars and teachers in the field of Buddhist Studies. His untimely death has shocked all of us who knew him and were fortunate enough to be his friends and colleagues. An intellectual of the highest order whose boundless . . .