2,602 search results for “chinese political culture” in the Public website
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About this minor
Cultural Anthropology Development Sociology explores how people assign significance to different aspects of their lives and with one another.
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Dennis Bos
Faculty of Humanities
d.bos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2722
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LEiden university NexuS of Arts | Media | Politics
The purpose of LENS is to foster, coordinate and support research of visual media of analog and digital photography, film, and video, and the visual arts.
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From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Lecture, China Seminar
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English Language and Culture (BA)
From Great-Britain to the United States and from Australia to South Africa: people around the whole world speak and write English. In Leiden you will broaden your knowledge of the English language and the rich Literature and culture of the global English world on academic level.
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Student maps Chinese language variation
When Daan van Esch, master’s student in Chinese Studies, travelled through China last summer, he noticed that he often did not understand what the inhabitants of the different villages and cities were talking about. There turned out to be huge differences within the language. He decided to map this…
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Henri Borel: a government official caught between two cultures
Audrey Heijns explored the mindset of alumnus Henri Borel. From 1894 to 1916 he was an interpreter of Chinese and later a government officer for Chinese affairs in the Dutch East Indies. Borel's way of 'translating' Chinese was both unique and inimitable. PhD defence on 28 June.
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Game Studies and Cultural Analysis
How do games work? How do you make them? And how do games make us and our societies and cultures? The minor Game Studies and Cultural Analysis will provide you with both the perspective and practice to give your own answers to these questions.
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Vulnerability and the associated levels of social resilience is what fascinates the researchers at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. What links a Japanese fisherman after the tsunami at Fukushima with a Ghanaian goldminer in an increasingly industrialised work environment?…
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
l.m.teh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5915
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Jialong Liu
Faculty of Humanities
j.liu.9@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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World Cultural Council Awards 2017
The World Cultural Council (WCC) and Leiden University are pleased to announce that the 34th Award Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 8 November 2017 in Leiden. This year Professor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, USA,…
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Of ticking bombs: Western security services against political violence and terrorism
How have British, Dutch, and German security services dealt with political violence and terrorism since the late 1960s; to what extent did they consider these new phenomena as a task and how have they developed activities in order to counter these security threats?
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Law, Culture and Development
Law is of major importance for socio-economic development. Ideally, law organizes human interaction in a way that promotes justice and legal certainty and protects vulnerable groups from exploitation and arbitrariness.
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology is a social science. Anthropologists investigate the ways in which people give meaning to different aspects of their life and the way they interact with each other.
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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume II, part 1
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural…
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A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644)
Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016
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An Incomplete Inquiry: Reading the Filial Piety Stories through Lacan, or the Other Way Around…
Chenyu Cheng defended her thesis on 6 April 2017.
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Museums, Heritage and Material Culture
Research on the global field of museums, heritage, commemoration, consumption and material culture
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
We are very happy to welcome you to spend a semester or year studying with us at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology (CA-DS). Here you will find practical information on studying CA-DS in Leiden as an exchange student.
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
j.qiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2977
- Language and Culture Education: Dutch
- Language and Culture Education: German
- Language and Culture Education: English
- Language and Culture Education: French
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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume II Part II
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural…
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Culturally responsive teaching in Dutch multicultural secondary schools
Unraveling culturally responsive attitudes, noticing skills, knowledge and reasoned practices of expert teachers.
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Deliberation and Agonism: Rethinking conflict and its relation to law in political philosophy
The Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University is host to the NWO programme,
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'Fieldwork in the Chinese tobacco industry more likely to turn you into a drinker than a chain smoker'
This remarkable statement appears in Yi-Wen Cheng’s dissertation on state monopoly and forms of competition in the Chinese tobacco industry. Cheng presents her conclusions and looks back on her fieldwork. ‘I had to accept a lot of drinks in order to establish a network of contacts.’
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‘If you want to understand China, read what Chinese scholars are writing’
Contrary to what one might expect, societal actors influence China’s foreign policy. PhD candidate Sabine Mokry investigated how Chinese academics and think tanks impact the authoritarian leadership’s views on what constitutes the country’s national interest in the international arena. On 14 November…
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Democracy in Europe. A Conceptual History
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.
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Press freedom, law and politics in Indonesia
Press freedom in Indonesia is still under pressure, despite the demise of Soeharto’s regime in 1998
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Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis
Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis Studies, Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13-15, 2011
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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The Modern Transformation of Korean Political Thinking: Revisiting the Political Ideas of the Late Nineteenth-Century Reformists
Choong-Yeol Kim defended his thesis on 14 November 2019
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Financial Governance in the European Union after a Decade of Economic and Political Crises
Introducing five papers about of the impact of crises on the governance, decision-making, and institutional design of the Euro Area, political scientists Valerie D'Erman (University of Victoria, Canada), Paul Schure (University of Victoria, Canada) and Amy Verdun (Leiden University) summarise the 'lessons…
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Assessing the Impacts Of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage in The Netherlands
This project aims to identify, quantify and map the exposure of Dutch national monuments to four climate change effects: flooding, waterlogging, drought and heat.
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China’s long march to national rejuvenation: toward a Neo-Imperial order in East Asia?
In tracing the deeper historical roots of what Xi Jinping contemporarily frames as a “Chinese dream” of “wealth and power,” the article discerns key actors, events, and organizing principles in a long process toward restoring China’s deemed rightful place in the regional system.
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Information activities
information activities MSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
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Women as Agents of Change: How has Women’s Political Mobilization Restructured Political Networks and Changed Local Governance?
Will women’s increasing electoral participation in rural India improve governance? On what terms are women being incorporated into politics – through existing patriarchal and clientelist relationships, or through collective action against the patriarchal and clientelist system?
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Faculty of Science celebrates Chinese New Year
The Faculty of Science celebrated the Chinese New Year on 26 January, with an event that was organised together with the Leiden Science China community. After a warm welcome and New Year Wishes by Dean Geert de Snoo, visitors could participate in various activities, such as a calligraphy lesson.
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The Global, Regional and Local Politics of Institutional Responses to COVID-19 - Implications for Women and Children
The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores responses to the pandemic by international, regional, and local institutions, multilateral action, and crisis prevention efforts at different levels of governance,…
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Douglas Berger
Faculty of Humanities
d.l.berger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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A Cultural History of Thunderstorms
How did the invention and implementation of the lightning rod change the perception of thunderstorms on a scientific, technical, religious and artistic level, in the Netherlands and beyond, during the period 1752-1830?
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Digital nationalism in China: Sino-Japanese history in online networks
This project will explore how Chinese digital networks are grounded in real-world institutions, and how interest groups and individuals use digital infrastructures to shape public discourse on national history.
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Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)
The master in Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory at Leiden University studies contemporary literature and culture (art, cinema, pop music) from a theoretical, critical perspective, with special emphases on approaches developed in cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, phenomenology and…
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Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity
Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region.
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Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
As part of the VIDI 'Cultural innovation in a globalising society: Egypt in the Roman world', this research explores manifestations of Egypt in the material culture of Augustan Rome. This period was a crucial turning point for the urban landscape of Rome, which was characterised by cultural diversit…
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Chinese State and Buddhist Historical Sources on Xuanzang: Historicity and the Daci'en si sanzang fashi zhuan大慈恩 寺 三藏 师 师传" in T'oung Pao
This paper explores the historicity of state and Buddhist accounts of the monk Xuanzang 玄奘 (602-664), arguing that in the reconstruction of Xuanzang’s life and career we ought to utilize the former to help adjudicate the latter.
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“This is Roosevelt’s World”: FDR as a Cultural Icon in American Memory
This dissertation studies the construction of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a cultural icon in American memory, particularly by FDR himself.