The International Symposium on the Integration of Chinese palaeography and old Chinese phonology, celebrating the 75th birthday of Prof. William H. Baxter, was held on March 9-10 at Westlake University in Hangzhou. Dr. Jianing Chen participated it and presented a paper titled “Scientific and Historical Limitations of the Qing Scholars’ Research on Old Chinese Phonology”. The paper reviewed t...

On December 17, 24 year-3 students from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) major and two exchange students under the leadership of Dr. Wei Chin Wong and Miss Connie Li traveled to Macau- a well-conserved region with more than four centuries of East-West cultural exchanges and assimilation. The group visited several historic sites and a museum to gain a firsthand glimpse at Maca...

The student-curated poster exhibition titled “Discovering the Legacy: History of Western Sinology” took place from December 1st to December 10th, 2023. The exhibition was organized by Dr. Wong Wei Chin and Miss Connie Li and involved the participation of all the 2021 cohort students from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program, which is a part of the Department of Communic...

On December 2, 2023, Dr. Diao Xiaolong, Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), led a group of 12 students from UIC to participate in the "Forum on Promoting the Tradition of Studying Abroad and Serving the Country." This event was part of the Second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Forum and the 5...

Dr. Xiaolong Diao, Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (FHSS) of UIC, participated in the academic seminar "Cultural Exchange in East Asia in the 17th Century - Focused on the Eastward Propagation of Huangbo Chan Master". The seminar was jointly organized by the FHSS of UIC, Fuqing Huangbo Academy, and Fuqing H...

Dr. Jianing Chen travelled to Xiamen over the weekend to engage in an in-depth exchange with Prof. Nathan Hill, an American linguist who is visiting China for academic exchange. Both scholars are affiliated with the Chinese-Foreign Academic Translation Project "Structural Study of Chinese Palaeography", chaired by Dr. Xiaoling Deng of the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen Univ...

China Daily published a feature story on Dr Yegor Grebnev of UIC's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ukrainian scholar promotes Chinese history, introducing his academic studies on early Chinese history and his understanding of historical research.Dr Grebnev is fluent in seven languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian to better read material...

Dr. Jianing Chen, Assistant Professor from Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program and Ms. Julie Lai, Assistant Instructor from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of UIC, led 50 students from the General Elective course “Religion and the Arts: Eastern Traditions” to visit the Zhuhai Puji Art Museum on November 5th, 2023. Group photoThe visiting team arrived a...