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Thursday, July 10th, 2025

Specialist Course ‘50 Years of EU-China Relations’ Organized by the ‘EACS’ in collaboration with the Horizon Europe Project ‘ReConnect China’

Ghent, Belgium
9-11th Sep 2025
Apply before: 10th Aug 2025

On behalf of the organizing committee headed by Prof. dr. Laura De Giorgi, President of EACS and Prof. dr. Bart Dessein, scientific coordinator of the ‘ReConnect China’ project, we are happy to invite applications of PhD students and junior post-docs (maximum 2 years post-doc . . .

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Workshop: Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy

University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hybrid format
11–13th Jul 2025

The workshop will explore various modes of reasoning in Chinese philosophical traditions.
Online attendance is possible.
For registration, please visit: www.aoi.uzh.ch/registration
This workshop explores how processes of thinking and reasoning are reflected in traditional Chinese philosophy — including forms that are not easily captured by formal . . .

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Member’s Publication: Taru Salmenkari

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

Edward Elgar, 2025

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

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Call for Papers – Upcoming Conference: Asian Languages in the History of Lexicography

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

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

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Vacant Position: Full-time tenure track professor in Chinese Studies

Leuven, Belgium
Deadline: 15th Sep 2025

The University of Leuven (Belgium) has a vacancy for a full-time tenure track professor in Chinese Studies with proven expertise in the field of Chinese thought. Candidates should hold a PhD in Chinese Studies/Sinology or in a specific discipline, with a dissertation focused on China. Candidates are . . .

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Member’s Publication: Lingjie Ji

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

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

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Member’s Publication: Renata Vinci ed.

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

Firenze University Press 2024

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

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Call for Papers – Performing Postsocialism: Cultures of Performance-Making in Twenty-First-Century
China

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

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

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Member’s Publication: Katherine Ngo

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

Ann Arbor: Lever Press, 2025

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

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Member’s Publication: Christian Henriot (ed.)

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

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Enemy Encounters in East Asia Webinar Series

2024/2025 Second Semester (March-July)

The webinar is organized as part of the Research Training Group (RTG) Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, hosted by Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies. The RTG has also launched a monthly podcast series Enemy Encounters which features . . .

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Vacant Position: Intermediate Lecturer at Jiangnan University School of Humanities

Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Deadline: Open until filled

Faculty Recruitment
Jiangnan University School of Humanities
Education Major
Full-time Faculty Position

Position Overview
Position Title: Intermediate Lecturer
Research Direction: Education History and Culture
Location: Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Start Date: Flexible

Position Requirements
We are seeking a highly qualified individual . . .

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Member’s Publication: Lauren Walden

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 . . .

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

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 . . .

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

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 . . .

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Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Library Travel Grant 2025

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 . . .

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Member’s Publication: Kelly Ngo

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

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Call for Papers: BACS Annual Conference 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 . . .

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Olympia Summer Academy 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).

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Member’s Publication: Christof Lammer

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 . . .

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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

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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 . . .

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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 . . .

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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 . . .

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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 . . .

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