Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Chinese Studies

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Yinzhi Zhang is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Frank Pieke is a Professor Emeritus of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies.

Gina van Ling is a lecturer at the BA International Studies and is affiliated with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). She has a background in Sinology and Law.

Ans de Rooij-van Broekhuizen is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Paul van Els is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Xiao Luo doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Florian Schneider's research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment, recent Chinese economic developments, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He…

Gabe van Beijeren teaches courses in Classical Chinese and assists in teaching courses in Chinese history and Chinese philosophy and religion.

Xiong Xiong is a PhD at the Institute for Area Studies.

Maghiel van Crevel is a professor of Chinese language and literature at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Jue Wang is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Jue is a scholar of Chinese economy and Global Political Economy. With a regional focus on China, her areas of expertise include international political economy, development finance, international organisations, technology…

Francesca Rosati works from abroad. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

I-Hsien Lin is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

Susana Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. With a PhD in medical translation, her research intersects machine translation, AI, health communication, and migration.…

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Political Science

Overview of reference works, journals and website for research in Politics and International Relations of Japan

I am an Assistant Professor in Machine Translation at the Leiden Centre for Linguistics. My research navigates disciplinary boundaries between translation studies, computational linguistics and machine learning, focusing on automatic subtitling, and language technologies for audiovisual translation…

Fan Lin is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Yujing Tan is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies and International Studies. Yujing Tan doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Jiyan Ilbrink is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.

I am a historian of late medieval and early modern China (14-18th c.). I am mostly interested in exploring the history of Chinese political institutions, literati culture, and gender and family. My current research is focused on examining the intersection of bureaucracy, law, and society in the Ming…

Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students got the opportunity to decipher the edict (dated 1582) during their internships. In this UBLpodcast they share their findings.

Limin Teh (PhD, Chicago, 2014) is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at Leiden University. Her research examines industrial work, capital, and empire in modern East Asia, with a focus on mining, global labor standards, and reproductive labor.

Ying-ting Wang is Lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Elisabeth Dieterman is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Michael Meyer is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

My work lies at the intersection of political economy, political geography, development studies, and critical geopolitics. I am particularly interested in South-South relations, China’s global footprint (with a specific focus on China’s engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean), conflict around…

Silke Herms is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Public Administration.

Jonathan Phillips is an Assistant Professor in the Politics of Development at the Institute of Political Science.

Lettie Dorst is an associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She teaches a range of different courses in the Minor Translation and the MA Translation, including courses on Translation Studies, Translation Technology, Multimodal Translation and Subtitling. Her research focuses…

Help us develop and expand the recently established Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC, 莱顿华语酷儿文献收藏) at Leiden University Libraries (UBL).